How do these people survive?

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 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'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 it should be fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer..... Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency room!


Life is tough.

It's tougher if you're stupid

Very Funny (and sad too) stuff Fran.
#4 reminded me of a personal experience.
My now ex-wife called me at home, frantic, she'd locked her keys in the car. She was at a clothing store, and she'd heard you could get into a locked car with a coat hanger, so she was already trying that, to no avail.
I made the trip into town, with a spare set of keys, found my ex in the parking lot, coat hanger in hand, looking as miserable as one could possibly look.
Upon attempting to open the door lock with the key, I noticed a lot of scratches and a very deformed key-way.
Long story short, when she'd heard about getting into a locked car with a coat hanger, she just assumed it meant trying to poke it into the key slot.
I'm assuming my outburst of laughter didn't help the matter any!!

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...shboom

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A year ago, a new intern was going to the local coffee shop. When he took my order, I said "Cream only". You guessed it...I got a styro cup of...."Cream Only".

Last week we had a new waitress at the restaurant I work. She was complaining about her tips. I said" I'm getting lots of tips, but I have to go around to the tables every hour to collect them." She indignantly said, "You're stealing my tips!". Ah, those innocent "newbies".


Russ

Back when I had my own nightclub, I hired a bartender/waitress. The first night I came in and asked her "Do we have a Diet Coke?"
She said yes.
DonM

DonM.... she answered your question perfectly ...
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Life may be tough Fran but if you are stupid you don't realise it and you just roll along in blissful ignorance.

I know, from personal experience.