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blue water massey

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Must read.... I borrowed this from a friends post..

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
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)
(Must have been the same one I asked for sweetener,
and she said they didn't have any, only Splenda and sugar.)

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.

( But the lady behind me had a big smirk on her face as I left)

THREE
A woman 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.'

(Keep shuddering!!)

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 don't know. 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....'

PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!

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 paper from the photocopier', 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.

Brunette, by the way!!

SIX
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency right away'

Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're Stupid!!!!
Someone had to remind me, so I'm reminding you too.
Don't laugh....it is all true
 
Granted I'm relatively young (27), this one drives me nuts... At the store the other day, total price was $6.32. I handed the cashier $7.07. She looked at me and said it was 6.32. I told her that I knew what the total was, to just enter the 7.07 into the register. When the register "told" her to give me 75 cents, it was like a light bulb just flashed off. Its pretty amazing how simple math has gone by the wayside in a lot of instances.
 
I've had to work school concession stand several times with high school juniors and it's amazing how so many can't do "change" when giving out money.
Seriously, if somebody gives you a $10 bill and the amount is $1.50, all you have to do is count up to $10 while you are grabbing money to give back to the customer.
You don't have an adding machine, a phone in the calculator mode, or even a pencil or paper to figure it out.
 
Since my stroke I am restricted from heavy work. So the other day I needed 5 tons of fertilizer in a buggy. To take to a customer.Told two guys go hook up to a buggy. Give me 5 tons.I waited long enough for them to have everything done. Go out to the barn find the truck and buggy ready to go. But find the bagged fertilizer sitting on pallets.Went and found the two ask them what is going on.They looked straight at me and said. Did you want us to load it. I just went into my office and beat my head on the wall.
 
The kids today must only know how to count in fives. Saw a gal count 5-10 under her breath to give me two nickel's for 10 cents change yesterday at Mickey D's. She probably doesn't know what the value of a dime is...I have seen the same when given two fives instead of a ten as well. Lord help us all!
 
I was at Home Depot one day. Finished checking out, handed the young lady cashier one of those fake $100,000 bills with a gospel tract on it.

"Oh, can you break this for me while you're in there?" I asked.

She looks at it, holds it up to the light looking for the thread. Hands it back, totally serious, "I don't think that's real!"

The man in line behind me is laughing, I'm laughing, she looks at at both of us like "Whattt? LOL
 

A friend of mine's father was getting up in years. One day she brought me his calculator he had removed all the keys - every thing was in a bag. She said he wanted the calculator key pad to be the same as the one on his phone (phone is 1,2,3 across the top and a calculator is 7,8,9). He asked her to see if I could get it to work.....we laughed about that for a long time.
 
My wife and I were in a fast food place in Colorado a few years back. I gave the teenage girl behind the register the bills, including a $2 bill. She called her manager over, and the both of them decided it was fake, and they were calling the cops! I took my "fake $2 bill", and my wife gave her replacement money. We sat down to eat, and waited for the Police to arrive. The cop about blew a gasket when he figured out what he was called out for!
 
They do seem too incredible to be true. However, sadly, I have personally experienced most of those at the local Wal-Mart. I have on a couple of occasions when the computers were down, had to actually teach the cashier how to count my change back. AND, I can assure you the lesson didn't sink in either.


Considering some of the idiot things I've done over the years, I try not to be too hard on em. (but it's difficult!)
 
Don't bet on it!!!!!! I have seen at least five of these or very close to. Down at work casino, they ran a commercial microwave through the big conveyor dish machine! A 240 volt unit with four magnetrons and water still dripping out of it they plug it in. You bet these are real and I know of a guy who works in the rental business. His wife saw a tractor trailer with pallets of sod and asked if that was some kind of new portable LAWN! You know what those temporary dance floors look like? She is a very nice lady but every once in a while a fuse blows.
 
I went to a Taco Bell about 3 weeks ago (bad choice #4 of the day)

Gave the guy a $50 (just cause, well, it is really fun to buy $3 worth of tacos, and then see the look on their face when you give them a $50!)

Anyway, I already knew what my change would be (I am VERY good/fast with simpler math) he checks it out, puts it in the box, then says, "K dawg" (would have been fired right there if I was the owner) "heres your kicks" (apparently kicks means cash?)

Well, he screwed up, and cleared out the register BEFORE he had seen it, and had started getting money out! Now he is sol, because the machine isn't telling him the amount of "change due" (I am smiling)

My change was $45.41. Okay, so, he pretty quickly figures out 4 10's, and 1 5. BUT now he has to figure out the coins (.41, we ALL know that is ONE of each coin in the box...)

He just looked at the box, as if looking for neon pointing signs saying RIGHT HERE DUMB ---. Well, believe it or not, there were none of those in the box.

By now, I am getting upset (had taken so long, I already had my food). I finally said, "one of each". He looked at me kind of funny, then nodded his head, and took out a $1, $5, $10, and $20 and handed them to me!!!!! (along with the 4 10's and 1 5 he already had strewn about on the counter) (Oh cool?! They have cash back on Tacos???)

I just about exploded, and the two guys behind me were laying on the floor..... I reached across the counter, quickly took my .41 and then grabbed the 4 10's and 1 5 and left..... Couldn't believe it?!?!
 
And we wonder why people hire illegals?

What are we going to do with 10 to 20% of the USA citizens that are only capable of

routine physical work? They could feed cows, shovel manure or work on the very most repetitious

jobs on the assembly line. Unfortunately those jobs are mostly gone....but the people are not.
 
Yes, these are at least 10 years old, if not older. The only one there was ever any proven validity to is the one with the car key. It was actually on video in front of a clothing store somewhere.
 
Some years ago in Mrytle Beach I stopped for a Mc D breakfast. Egg Mcmuffin, hash browns and coffee. Cant remember the price but I paid for a package breakfast. Got to the car and there were no hash browns. Back to the counter counter with the bag and told the counter girl I was shorted the hash browns. She said, "we are out of hash browns". So I said just give me back the amount for hash browns. She said she coundn't because I had ordered a full breakfast that included hash browns. So I repeated my request for a refund and her response was the same. I asked for a manager and she told me "we are out of hash browns" so I again repeated my request for a refund or I would(by now I was mad as hell" I will call the police. The manager reached into the cash drawer and threw all the change in the drawer at me. There must have been 10-15 dollars of coins rolling around the floor and people grabbing what they could. Needless to say, I scurried out of there before she pulled a gun on me.
 
Remember, most of the funniest stuff that comes from a comedian..... usually comes from real life........
 
That is what happens when you have no child left behind. They pass them even if they can not do math or read. School now days do not teach kids they just hold them for the parent for the day. Schools dumb our kids down any more and people wonder why things are getting so bad
 
I have to agree with Hay Hay Hay. Employers are the ones who decide who they hire and how much training those employees get. Choosing not to train employees or to hire illegal immigrants are business decisions.

One way to reduce illegal immigration is to make it illegal to hire those illegal immigrants and add increase fines large enough to make getting caught very unprofitable. So far we are unwilling to do that, I guess we would rather keep things as they are.
 
I'm glad I'm homeschooled. I try to advoid dealing with stupid as much as possible cause it just irritates me. I was at Deere the other day, parts for the 4850 and the manager was "checking" us out. Well, he couldn't figure out how to enter the part number and take a credit card payment. Took three of those dumb salesman to check us out. They kept telling us, well its uhh the computer and it doesn't work right. I finally said its your brain that isn't working. They all got the dumbiest look on their faces.

I was working at the local cemetery last year with a older fellow(really nice) and a 21 year old guy, and my brother. Not working there again but thats another story.. The 21 year old and I were working on the brush hog with a grinder and he just all the sudden set it down and started beating on it with a hammer. I asked what in the hell are you doing? You didn't cut through the whole thing. He said I'm all outta blade. I said well where are the spares? I'll put a new one on. He said, You can do that? I left and went to lunch after that.

Stupid seams to be every where, and dear Lord it's sad.
 
Most of you are missing something here. This problem started showing itself back in the 80's long before no child left behind. It started when schools started teaching kids to accept technology and use it. Don't need to know how to do the math, just need to know what buttons to push on a calculator.

As far as how store employees act, well that's standards set by the employer. And the store should be training these kids how to do the job right.

Rick
 
First problem stems from eating in a low class restaurant. Second shopping at a low class store . Third hanging in parking lots frequented by idiots.
 
At least the Mexican road crews. Know how to repair a road and do traffic control.What we have left in this county is a joke.One highway they repaired is now in worse shape than before they repaired it. Another highway they dug up ten feet of good road packed dirt in the hole. Then left. Next morning some guy hit the hole. Blew out two tires almost flipped his car. So the crew goes back out and fills it in with asphalt.
 
Society will not let a kid work or even give them any responsibility any more like we used to do. Our seven kids all new how to work at a young age. They even drove tractors in the fields when they were too young, according to today's standards. But it worked!
 
Let me add another. TODAY at desperate depot I was the only one in the line. NO one else,..OK.? The total for a little fitting was $1.67 total. I had a pile of change in my pocket and wanted to unload it. I dumped a pile out and two at a time zipped off >60 cents. Next were a bunch of nickles and dimes. Came right up to $1.67 on the nose. She is standing there looking annoyed. Instead of double counting the pennys she picks them up ONE at a time! When she got through the pennys she dumps them in the draw and then starts on the dimes and dumps them then the nickles. All of this is getting around five minutes of time. Today folks not in someones bad dream.
 
I used to work for the town I live in. Had for 32 years. Everybody knew me and I knew them. Several years back before we had cell phones we used pagers when we were "on call" for after hour problems. I had a person call my house, I answered the phone and the caller wanted to know if I was "on Call" I said yes. He then asked me for the after hours number he needed to call to so I would get a page. I asked him what his problem was beings I was talking to him. He said I could call him after I got the page and he would tell me. To this day I don't think he had a clue.
 
Recently went to a Burger King and ordered their Wopper with onions. The girl told me they were out of onions. I replied, a Burger King restaurant is out of onions! She said, yes we have some coming from another store. I said, why doesn't someone just run over to the store 100 feet away and buy a couple onions until the other onions get here. She didn't know. So I ate my burger without onions. When I was finished I saw a man carrying some boxes into the store. So I asked him if that was the onions and he said yes, so I had a conversation with him about running out of onions. On my next visit to the same BK I asked if they had onions, yes they did. I told the story to the lady taking the orders and she told me the story concerning the onions. She said their onions come already sliced in boxes and she said the reason we can't just go to the store and get some to hold us over is because, NOW GET THIS, we don't have a KNIFE to slice onions. I said, what this store doesn't have a knife? She said NO,, because some of these kids might cut themselves. Now this is a true story as crazy as it might sound. I guess it's all about LIABILITY!
Instead of teaching kids proper knife skills, they just don't allow knives to slice vegetables and if they run out they just serve their burgers without. How sad!!!

Dick
 

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