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
The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what
happened a couple of months ago. 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
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?"
SEVEN
Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, 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.
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