| Author | Message | ||
     Crusty |
Be Careful Out There: IDIOT SIGHTING: We had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower. He shook his head and said, 'Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.' I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4. He said, 'NO, it's not.' Four is larger than two..' We haven't used Sears repair since. IDIOT SIGHTING: My daughter and I went through the McDonald's take-out window and I gave the clerk a $5 bill. Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her a quarter. She said, 'you gave me too much money.' I said, 'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar bill back.' She sighed and went to get the manager who asked me to repeat my request. I did so, and he handed me back the quarter, and said 'We're sorry but they could not do that kind of thing.' The clerk then proceeded to give me back $1 and 75 cents in change.. Do not confuse the clerks at McD's. IDIOT SIGHTING : I live in a semi rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road. The reason: 'Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.'& nbsp; From KingmanKS . IDIOT SIGHTING IN FOOD SERVICE : My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.' He said he was sorry, but they only had iceburg lettuce. From K ansas City IDIOT SIGHTING: I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, 'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?' T o which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?' He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask.' Happened in Birmingham , Ala. IDIOT SIGHTING : The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it's safe to cross the street.. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine. She asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appall ed, she responded, 'What on earth are blind people doing driving?!' She was a probation officer in Wichita , KS IDIOT SIGHTING : At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker. She was leaving the company due to 'downsizing.' Our manager commented cheerfully, 'This is fun. We should do this more often.' Not another word was spoken. We all just looked at each other with that deer-in-the-he adlights stare. This was a lunch at Texas Instruments. IDIOT SIGHTING : I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the sake of her life, couldn't understand why her system would not turn on. A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriffs office, no less. IDIOT SIGHTING When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. 'Hey,' I announced to the technician, 'its open!' His reply, 'I know. I already got that side.' This was at the Ford dealership in Canton, MS STAY ALERT! They walk among us... and they VOTE and they REPRODUCE | ||
| Vampress |
I had a very similar experience...it really does happen! I went out to a local restaurant and ordered Cajun spiced fish from the menu. When I got the meal, the fish tasted horrible, like a muddy bottom dweller. I asked the waitress girl what kind of fish it was? She replied "I'm not sure-it's Cajun" A little surprised by her stupid answer, I asked her to go and ask the manager or chef what kind of fish it was? Her reply after she had asked... "It's a freshwater Cajun"  | ||
| Nevrenuf |
"It's a freshwater Cajun"   they definitely live among us. | ||
| Xl1200r |
The cashier thing happens all the time, which is alarming. This is your job, you should be able to make change. Moreover, you tell the machine how much the customer gave you and it tells you how much to give back. More than once I've had to convince a cashier to take "more than I needed" and have them smile at the register when my change comes out to one dollar, or 5, or 10 like I just did some kind of magic trick. Want to really confuse them? When your bill is something like $7.60, give them $13.60 and watch them try to figure that out. BUT - the best one was when my girl and I went to a show a few weeks ago. Big bouncer man said it was a $5 cover. No problem. I hand him a ten. He then hands me back 2 $5 bills. It was too loud and too crowded to argue. | ||
| Slaughter |
Home Depot (before I gave up on them entirelyfor other reasons) I needed cut lengths of rebar for a project and they had it in 2, 4 foot lengths on up to full 20 foot sticks. I needed 2-foot sticks and so I'm there at the cashier with a dozen 2-foot sticks. She didn't have a tape measure and so I had to go to another checker who could verify they were 2-footers and not 4-footers. SAME HOME DEPOT (another time) - the change-making saga: My bill - something-and-change less than $20 (let's call it $17.53 for the purposes of discussion) so I hand her a $20 and she enters it in the computer, cash drawer opens as I remember my pocketful of change. I make the correct change in coin and 2 singles (making an even $5 in change) and am told: "it's too late, I've already entered it in the register" I decide I can't explain. She's probably hoping to retire on lottery winnings (like millions of others) | ||
| Shupe |
I went to the McDonalds near my house once and all the registers were down. Everything else was Ok, just no registers. What to do? Just make everything $ 1.00? Nah. They had 3 cashiers passing one calculator back and forth, taking about 2-3 minutes totaling up each order - with a line of customers going out the door. I decided I didn't need a Big Mac after all. | ||
| Court |
The same folks who like to remind me how worthless a good education is. . . . they are entertaining. A couple years ago . . I was at the Home Depot (which appears to be where idiots are produced based solely on anecdotal evidence) and the gal was very nasty (I'd interrupted her texting session) and in a real hurry to get rid of me . . (go figure). The bill was something like $7.53 . . I gave her a $10 and she promptly handed me a $10 . . 2 1's and change . . I said "but wait" . . and she said "what is it now?". Nothing . . I said as I strode out with my $10 bonus. Better yet . . . recently bought 5 CASES of Hill's Science Diet dog food. Nice girl, I'm sure she's at the top of her class, took out a can, scanned it, hit "enter" 5 times. I paid the $8 and left in amazement. My office, in Midtown Manhattan is near a high school. Yesterday I walked out about 3:00pm as they were getting out of school. Easy to see why less than 50% of high school kids will graduate . . yeah, who needs a "formal" education. I just hope there are enough Home Depot's to absorb them all. | ||
| Bikerjim99 |
I recently bought a new refrigerator from Home Depot. They offered free delivery and removal of my old refrigerator, but I wished to take the new one with me and have them come by the next day to remove my old one. They refused. The manager was called over, and he said that they couldn't make a special trip to my house to pick up the old refrigerator. I talked to him as I would talk to a child, telling him to pretend they loaded up my new refrigerator, bring it to my house, and then take the old one away. He continued to insist that they couldn't do that, that it would be a special trip. They won, and the next day they delivered the new one and took the old one away. | ||
| Doughnut |
Not to defend the stupid, (I have had my time with them and in there ranks even, I'm sure we all have) but with the change thing: When I was security at Target we would instruct cashiers to make only one hand to hand transaction with money to "guests" (don't know why they are guests, I didn't invite them). The reason being that smarter criminal cashiers could use the chance to pocket money, or pass extra money to friends. On the other side, most cashiers are younger and vulnerable to a switch change where a con keps giving and taking money back and forth with the cashier and the cashier ends up giving back way too much money. Everyone always says that they could never be fooled this way, but I have seen it happen. This type of person gets to spend their full time learning how to do this, just like when can be fooled by a magician. My 2 pence. (Message edited by Doughnut on September 18, 2009) | ||
| Lizard |
I've been a cashier and it can get confusing when people try to give some change after the fact and switch out dollars for a five and things like that. But the thing that irritates me is when i go to a place and my total is like $4.78 and i give them $5.03 and they are confused. Those are the ones that i'm just like WOW! And to add to Doughnut's post they do train cashiers to not take money from a customer after you've already opened the drawer unless you really know what you are doing. Those people are good and they really do focus on giving and taking money from you and also distracting you with having an accomplice behind you that's trying to ask you questions at the same time so that you aren't fully focusing on the money they are giving you and taking from you. | ||
| Whatever |
It is worse being on the other side of the equation (and I am a smart girl).... Driving cab you have to do your paperwork at the end of the shift and turn in your cash and charge slips... one day I realized I failed to give a ten due to a little old lady... I felt pretty bad about it.  Another time I had a regular in the cab. Nice blind guy who always made the same trips. I shorted him a 5$ bill, and I could have gotten away with it except for my damn conscience. He was kinda surprised when I showed up at his door to give him some money.  But the most classic was when I was at a red light downtown and this raving lunatic was yelling at me from his open car window... He said "You just ran a red light!!!!" My response? "How about that???"  It is hard to stay on your toes sometimes when you are tired and bored and in traffic all day! | ||
| 2008xb12scg |
I just hope there are enough Home Depot's to absorb them all. Never fear, we have WalMarts to.. | ||
| 081125r |
Court, You may want to delete your post considering the topic, you said "A couple years ago . . I was at the Home Depot (which appears to be where idiots are produced based solely on anecdotal evidence) and the gal was very nasty (I'd interrupted her texting session) and in a real hurry to get rid of me . . (go figure). The bill was something like $7.53 . . I gave her a $10 and she promptly handed me a $10 . . 2 1's and change . . I said "but wait" . . and she said "what is it now?". Nothing . . I said as I strode out with my $10 bonus. " You strode out with your 10 dollar bonus? Actually you got it for free plus you got 2 dollars and some change. If I might quote a comedian.... Court... Here's your sign | ||
| New12r |
081125r, wow... | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Sorta like this | ||
| Midknyte |
Coins first! Then Paper! Coins first! Then Paper! Coins first! Then Paper! | ||
| Whatever |
Too funny!!! Jack Nicholsen looks so young. (Message edited by Whatever on September 18, 2009) | ||
| Kyrocket |
If we're getting technical he got it for free and $4.47 and some change.  Some friends and I went to a mexican restaurant a few years back and for some reason all I had was hundred dollar bill (this was b.c. before children) as did a friend of mine. When the poor girl came back with our change it was all smaller bills but she gave both of us back over $100. Needless to say she got a good tip. | ||
| Aesquire |
I've worked register. I usually figured the change, then worked the register, just to see if I did the math right. It's all over when the register has pictures. ( actually they tried that at McDonalds, but it confused them, so they went back....I guess it's been over....) | ||
| Vampress |
You strode out with your 10 dollar bonus? Actually you got it for free plus you got 2 dollars and some change. 081125r... actually Court's statement was 'correct'. He walked out with a ten dollar bonus. The ten dollars he walked in with cancels itself out, because he walked back out with it, but he also got an item worth 7.53 and the change from ten...hence his 'ten dollar bonus'. All very confusing on the surface  | ||
| Etennuly |
Did you see the President on the news the other day? | ||
| Crusty |
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| Ferris_von_bueller |
"....worst President of the 21st Century" Soon to be eclipsed by the current resident of the White House. | ||
| Dwardo |
One morning I took my dog out to his pen, only to find a mangy, sick, smelly fox in his doghouse. The doghouse is inside an enclosed pen with a gate, which I had accidentally left open. I left my dog in the house for the day and called Animal Control once I got to work. First they asked me if I was sure it was a fox, because if it was a dog they couldn't do anything about it. I assured them it was a fox and they said they would send a man out. I assumed he would capture the fox and take it away. When I got home, the fox was gone, the gate was open, and there was a note from Animal Control that said, "The fox ran away. I left the gate open so that if he gets in again he can get back out". Really, I'm not making that up. The next day my dog rolled in some fox scat and got the mange from it. |
