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Old 08-25-2006, 01:36 PM
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I didn't write this....

How do these people survive?


ONE Recently, when I went to McDonald'* 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'* 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'* 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'* tougher if you're stupid."
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Yeah..it'* funny to watch the masses fight hard every day.

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I have seriously had the half-dozen problem at Mc'd'*. I did it intentionally and they never caught on to it. Sad.
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go to a mc-burger, when they give you the total ask them if they accept "federal reserve notes?"



10:1 you'll get an "i have to ask my manager."
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I'm scared to find out how many of those are really true...
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Originally Posted by Marik_bathory
go to a mc-burger, when they give you the total ask them if they accept "federal reserve notes?"



10:1 you'll get an "i have to ask my manager."
doing that from now on! hahahah
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It has been said that America is functioning at a sixth grade level. I believe it
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Yet these same people can use all the multi task buttons on an X-box, fly through computer programs, program VHS and DVD recorders, and use all the functions listed in a cell phone manual the size of and encyclopedia. I just dont get it??? :?
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Selective learning, I guess. Just like any one of us. I suck at some stuff, but I'm pretty good at other stuff. Kinda like teenage girls... They're awesome at T9 text messaging, but a game of Scrabble is like Kryptonite to Superman.
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