Humorous, or is it?

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  • karlsgunbunker

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    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 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' things 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."
    (She had no clue either!)

    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 it should be fine.
    The mother says,
    "Okay, but, I just gave him some ant killer..... "
    Dispatcher: "Rush him in to emergency room!"

    Life is tough...

    It's even tougher yet

    if you're stupid.
     

    AllenM

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    Hey this happened to me.
    I went to the local burger king drive through. My order came to $4.98
    when I got to the window the girl used a handheld calculator to figure change back from my $5.00 bill.
    I Kid you not
     

    JetGirl

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    Hey this happened to me.
    I went to the local burger king drive through. My order came to $4.98
    when I got to the window the girl used a handheld calculator to figure change back from my $5.00 bill.
    I Kid you not
    Oooh! Oooh! I wanna play!!
    Sometimes if I don't want a fist full of loose change back, I'll pay with a bill higher than needed and add the change too (so I get all bills back). I always get "you gave me too much money".
    Um. Yeah. I know that.
     

    lovemywoods

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    Old School and New Math

    You can tell the difference between the 'old time' clerks and new ones.

    Before the days of electronic cash registers that did the math for you, a simple trick was to take the sales price and then work through the change compartments in the cash register, starting with the pennies, then the nickles, and so on until you reached the amount of money that had been given to you.

    For example, if the purchase was $8.62 and you got a $10 bill, you took 3 pennies (that's $8.65), then a dime (that's $8.75) then a quarter (that's $9.00) and finally a dollar bill to make $10. You didn't even have to do the mental subtraction if you didn't want to.

    Nowdays, clerks wait on the computer to tell them what the change is and they start with the largest bills and go down to the pennies until they have the amount of change required.

    Next time you're in a store, watch whether the clerk starts with the pennies (old school) or the bills first and goes down (calculator cripple)!

    lovemywoods
     

    Pami

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    While I can appreciate the humor here (and trust me, there's been more than a few sales clerks I've wanted to kick across the room for being dumb), don't forget that some of us retail people are educated, too.

    An example from a month or so ago... I forget the actual words, but at one point in the conversation, a customer looked at me and said, "I know, I just used a lot of big words there, didn't I?" I managed to control myself and politely responded, "It's alright; I graduated from college, too." I don't think I've ever seen anyone turn red faster. :) I work retail because I *choose* to, not because it's the only job I can get. :)
     

    JohnE

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    I've got one for this. True story. A female doctor called in that a table lamp wasn't working. The maintenance guy checked the light and asked her if she knew what might be wrong with it. And she replied "I don't know I'm only a doctor." What was wrong with the light was that it didn't have a light bulb in it. :bash:
     

    esrice

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    I just snapped this 5 minutes ago.

    It is a sign on a refrigerator door in the kitchen at the hotel where I work.

    All I can say is WOW.
     
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