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.And at a local Burger King, after I ordered a Whopper, fries, large drink and a dessert, the teenaged cashier said with a stone face, “That’s $1.56.” “Are you sure that’s correct?” I responded, “That seems too low.” To which the teenager replied, “Yes, that’s what the cash register says.” “That is too low,” I argued. At this the cashier got his manager to come over, and I explained what my order was and how much I was asked to pay. The manager simply replied, “The cash register says $1.56, so that’s how much you owe.” I paid my $1.56 and moved on.
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.
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.
I recently saw a distraught lady weeping beside her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to this door remote. 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?" and she handed the car keys to me. "Hmmm, I dunno." I said, as I took the key and manually unlocked the door for her. "Why don't you drive over there and see? It's a long walk." And she did!
Several years ago, we had a temporary 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 woman took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.
The same temp as above was once given a stack of outgoing letters and other mail by the boss and asked to send it out. She proceeded to type up an address label for the first letter on the stack. She then affixed the label to a large envelope and put all the mail into it. She sealed it up and mailed all the outgoing mail to the address of the top letter. They were surprised to receive all of our daily mail, only one letter of which was theirs.
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?"
"Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."
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