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Subject:
HOW DO THEY SURVIVE??
ONE
Recently,
when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could
have
an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I
asked for a half dozen nuggets.
"We
don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the
counter.
"You
don't?" I replied.
"We
only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply.
"So
I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?"
"That's right."
So
I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.
TWO
I
was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and
the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I
picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by
the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't
get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked
up the "divider", looking it all over for the bar code
so
she
could scan it.
Not
finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much
this is?"
I
said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy
that today."
She
said "OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She
had no clue
to
what had just happened.
THREE
A
lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive
and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she
was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they
kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM
"thingy."
FOUR
I
recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do
you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I
should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker.
Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a
distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?"
"Hmmm,
I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked.
"No,
just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the
car keys to me.
As
I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why
don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's
a long walk."
FIVE
Several
years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she
was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost
out of typing paper. What do I do?"
"Just
use copier machine paper," the secretary told her.
With
that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper,
put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank"
copies.
SIX
I
was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home was
towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need
of repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in
"Twister." I asked the manager what had happened. He
told me that the driver had
set
the "cruise control" and then went in the back to make
a sandwich.
SEVEN
My
neighbor works in the operations department in the central office
of
a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems
with
their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of
the
branch
banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from
the back of
my
terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"
EIGHT
Police
in Radnor, Pa., interrogated a suspect by placing a metal
colander
on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine.
The
message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police
pressed the
copy
button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth.
Believing
the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.
NINE
A
mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs
to
take
her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants.
The
dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should
be
fine,
the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer.....
Dispatcher:
Rush him in to emergency!
"Life
is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."
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