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 Walmart 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!