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- Funny thoughts to take a break for Eliott -
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Friday, September 08, 2006
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I recieved this little message in my email account this morning. Sometimes you just have to wake up each morning and thank your parents for providing you with the "smart" genes.
How do these people 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
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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3 Comments:
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I'm going on the assumption that these are true incidences. (You just never know these days; there is so much urban legend on the Internet.) It's quite sad that people who make it through 12 years of school don't have the basic ability to think that is so critical to survival.
In addition to taking Modern British Poetry, I'm currently also taking Sociology online through UCO. I was just reviewing my notes for an upcoming exam and remember reading about the concept of survival of the fittest. I don't see how people with such limited ability to think through a problem can survive, except with help from others. (But bear in mind, I don't necessarily think it's all their fault. Some of it may be genetics, but a great deal is their social upbringing.)
At any rate, as you were sharing these humorous stories with us, I thought I'd share my own personal saying on this issue: Common sense is free; it's just not plentiful.
Dorothy
Hey - I resemble that remark (life is hard; it's even harder if you are stupid). LOL Hey - I did a pre-birthday rant! You should go read it. You'll love my picture representing EXTREME feminists. LOL
Later tater
Your almost birthday buddy
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