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My daughter and I went through the McDonald's driveway window and I gave the cashier a $5 bill.
Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her 25c.
She said, 'you gave me too much money.'
I said, 'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar coin 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 25c, and said 'We're sorry but we dont do that kind of thing.'
The cashier then proceeded to give me back 75 cents in change.
Do not confuse the people at MacD's.
We had to have the garage door repaired.
The 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 made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.
He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower.'
I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.'
We haven't used that repairman since...
I live in a semi rural area.
We recently had a new neighbor call the local city council office to request the removal of the DEAR CROSSING sign on our road.
The reason: 'Too many dears are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.'
IDIOT SIGHTING IN FOOD SERVICE.
My daughter went to a Mexican fast food and ordered a taco.
She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.'
He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg lettuce.
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?'
To which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?'
He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask.'
The pedestrian light on the corner beeps when it's safe to cross the street.
I was crossing with an 'intellectually challenged' co-worker of mine.
She asked if I knew what the beeper was for.
I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red.
Appalled, she responded, 'what on earth are blind people doing driving?!'
She is a government employee.....
When my husband and I arrived at a car dealership to pick up our car after a
service, 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 drivers 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 did that side.'
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)I asked him why, and if we are so stupid, why was he dating me?
He said he liked me because I was 'different'. The last American woman he had met asked him where he was from. He told her and she asked how he got here (southern California) - did he drive? So, Phil asked her if she knew where Australia was located and she said "Yes. It's off the coast of Florida.".
Which made me laugh. I told him, well, she is right - it is off the coast of Florida - WAAAYYYY off the coast. It was just the 'drive' part that was insane. Unless, of course, she was confusing Australia with Key West. Then it's just stupid.
He had an equally low opinion of most American beer. I had to agree with him on that one.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)I called a business to determine exactly where they were. They told me the address and I said that I knew the address but I didn't know how far along the road were they. The road ran perpendicular to an interstate that was North-South. So I asked if it was east or west of the interstate. She said she wasn't sure so I reminded her that the interstate ran north and south and which way was north. She replied, "Yeah, but I still don't know which was is west".
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)To a better world
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)We recently had a new neighbor call the local city council office to request the removal of the DEAR CROSSING sign on our road.
The reason: 'Too many dears are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.'
I get the joke. But I surely hope the sign didn't say "DEAR" Crossing.
OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)HAB911
(8,912 posts)We have some aging Republican friends that live nearby. During one of our frequent power outages the wife called and asked for help opening their garage door without power. She said she pulled the little handle hanging down which unlocked it but it still would not open. I went over and lifted the door. She said, "I didn't know you had to LIFT it."
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Had a woman I barely knew at work tell me my "wheel was broken"? I said "broken?" She said "yes, it's all flat and everything". I replied that I had an air pump in the car and I'd put some air in it. She looked confused and said "there's air in a tire?"
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)This twit complained that she was unable to go anywhere, because the power was out, and her car was "trapped" in her garage.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Got any?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)My problem is with the OP title more than the tired forwarded email. Using the phrase "They breed" as a warning is destabilizing and dehumanizing, and I object to it.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Plus children aren't carbon copies of their parents. Low IQ people can have very intelligent children. It happens all the time.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)RWers have lots of kids. The "Quiverfull" bullshit as an example. Too many liberal people do not have, or do not want to have children. Where are the liberal children going to come from, if liberals do not have them?
Merlot
(9,696 posts)The family nickname for me was "bleeding heart-liberal"
I was born this way.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)on the liberal side and as we age so do our views, become more conservative. Not me. Ive always been center left. The older I get the more liberal I become. Mr. Contrary is what I am. 🤔
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)I've never seen this until now.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)"Huh? I don't get it. Are those people voting for Donald Trump? I like them!"
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)I do that all the time to get bills rather than more coins. I've never come across a problem with that. There must be some real idiots in your area.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)or at least are greatly exaggerated. Yes, a brand new cashier who's isn't used to making change yet might be confused a bit until she gets the hang of it. Yes, the people at the airport ask questions that may seem stupid, but they're required to ask them. One is frankly offensive, as it ridicules intellectually disabled people. And of course, there are no signs that say DEAR CROSSING, even in rural areas.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)raccoon
(31,119 posts)I ran into that in my area. The woman didnt get when I gave her five dollars and .25, That I expected a buck back.
Actually she shortchanged me a little bit, but I let it go.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Not only that, people are paranoid... you follow the rules, sometimes to the annoyance of others. This era is bringing out some of the worst in people.
Where I work at, sometimes I work a cash register. I can't tell you how many times someone has tried a flim-flam scam on me, never works though because I play by the rules at work to a fault. I'll open my register and there's the amount someone gives me and the change I give back, when someone suddenly pulls out some money and demands I make change for them for that too or suddenly wants to change the amount they give me after the register is open, I consider it a separate transaction.
People like us, we value our jobs... You know to pay bills and stuff.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)probably look down on you for working a cash register in the first place, no matter how well you do it.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Really try to give back to the community.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Not just because of potential scams. Cashiers at McDonald's ring up the cash register and give back change just like every other store. The register rings up the total, the cashier punches in the amount of money the customer game them, and the register tells the cashier how much change to give back. "We don't do that kind of thing", my fat ass. Of all the thousands of purchases I have made over my life, I think I only ever had the cashier screw up once.
We have no problem making change, my store has things for kids to buy, they give me a dollar, I give them quarters. It raises red flags though when someone comes through my line and I tell this to anyone who works a cash register for something that's two dollars and they have a lot of cash on them, but for some reason they want to pay it with a hundred dollar bill.
We're understaffed where I work, so can be talking on the phone, handling donation trucks, telling my coworkers what to do, AND dealing with customers who don't like the change I've given them back and forth... I'd like to see the writer of that chain email deal with that, we've had people walk out in the middle of their first day on the job, I suspect that's where the writer would be as well.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)and those of us who know better are the rarity.
Sunsky
(1,737 posts)I can tell stories of my own fuck ups especially when I'm nervous. I guess I'm human. Maybe I shouldn't vote?
Mariana
(14,860 posts)Especially since I bred an "intellectual disabled" child. I only hope that later on my baby will be able to work, whether it be for the public or private sector and live a somewhat normal life.
rsdsharp
(9,197 posts)One day I sold an engagement ring, but the customers wanted it in white gold and I only had yellow in stock so I called the Home office in Houston.
I explained what I needed, and she asked what store I was calling from. I gave the name and company store number and told her it was in Cedar Falls, Iowa. "We ain't got no stores in Idaho," she said. "Not Idaho, Iowa," I replied. "We ain't got no stores in Ohio, either." Frustrated, I said, "Iowa. I-O-W-A. Cedar Falls, Iowa." "There ain't no such state as Iowa."
You can't fix stupid, although I believe in her case they did fire it.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)My dad was getting his masters degree. My brother and I went to a cool school, Franklin Price Prep, maybe? I was in 4th grade.....beautiful college town!
rsdsharp
(9,197 posts)My wife attended Price Lab K-12. Sadly, it no longer exists, they shut it down several years ago.
All three of my siblings, and I, and our daughter all graduated from UNI (Iowa State Teachers College when your dad was there).
pintobean
(18,101 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)She asked what are these...I said 50 cents or half a dollar...she asked how much is this?
I said 7 times 50 and got a blank stare. I sighed and said 3.50.
Ive also seen a McDs manager yell at a employee for not knowing a $2 bill that I gave him.
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)much like the old "Pollack jokes" from my childhood. And for much the same reason... I don't find them funny ( even if it is "stupid Americans" that are the butt of the jokes ).
My MAGA loving Arizona family likes to tell that President Obama, when informed that there were maybe as many as 3 million "cattle guards" in the West decided that he could save billions of federal dollars by eliminating most of the cattle guards.