Can People Really Be This Stupid?

[KIISQueen]

1. 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.

2. Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that I 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

[ialsohaveadream]

No, I'd go so far as to suggest that all four of those things were made up...although the McDonald's story is at least believable.

[DarkFury]

Yup... they sure can be THAT stupid. :2far:

[cheapie]

lol. the other day i was at the store and my bill was 17.XX. i gave the woman 22 and change. she looked at me and said, "your total is only 17.xx." i thought about explaining that i'd rather have a five back instead of 3 ones because i would then have five of them. instead, i just stared at her and took back the extra bills. :rolleyes:

[ShawnLee]

lol. the other day i was at the store and my bill was 17.XX. i gave the woman 22 and change. she looked at me and said, "your total is only 17.xx." i thought about explaining that i'd rather have a five back instead of 3 ones because i would then have five of them. instead, i just stared at her and took back the extra bills. :rolleyes:I was at a store and I gave a girl thirteen cents after she had run me up, so she'd give me a buck instead of eighty-seven cents. She looked at me and said, "I don't think I can do that," and rather than argue, I just walked off.

[RIVERWIDOW]

I was at a store and I gave a girl thirteen cents after she had run me up, so she'd give me a buck instead of eighty-seven cents. She looked at me and said, "I don't think I can do that," and rather than argue, I just walked off.


Kids today can't make change because they let them use calculators in school. Why think when you can use a machine?? SAD:sad: :sad:

[mcs328]

Kids today can't make change because they let them use calculators in school. Why think when you can use a machine?? SAD:sad: :sad:

That's why they have those change dispensers now too. It baffles me the low level math skills some people have for jobs like that. Surely they must get that day in and day out.

[guiseppewv]

I like to go to bars and order a couple of beers. Approx 7 out of 10 bartenders usually look at me and are like "so how many beers do you want?"

[Prisoner 24601]

and the worse thing with the above reference of how stupid some of these people are, is that they all will most likely pro-create!

[Grafalgar]

I like to go to bars and order a couple of beers. Approx 7 out of 10 bartenders usually look at me and are like "so how many beers do you want?"

Well this I can see causing confusion. "Couple" has been kinda abused to where it might mean more than two. A "couple" could mean two, a handful, several, etc. In the end, pretty much more than one. *shrugs*

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=couple

"(4) Informal. A few; several: a couple of days. "

[cheapie]

really? cuz i've never used it to mean three. that's where "few" is used.

[zero2dash]

Well this I can see causing confusion. "Couple" has been kinda abused to where it might mean more than two. A "couple" could mean two, a handful, several, etc. In the end, pretty much more than one. *shrugs*

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=couple

"(4) Informal. A few; several: a couple of days. "

:agree:
The same stupid people that can't figure out that 1/2 dozen = 6 are the ones that say "couple" and mean 3 or 4 or 5...I've seen it with my own eyes. :shrug: That's why cops always ask for an elaboration when you say "I've had a couple of beers" 'cause usually, "a couple beers" means "a 12 pack". :heh:

[guiseppewv]

really? cuz i've never used it to mean three. that's where "few" is used.


:stupid:

When someone says they are a couple they mean two people not a threesome.


:agree:
The same stupid people that can't figure out that 1/2 dozen = 6 are the ones that say "couple" and mean 3 or 4 or 5...I've seen it with my own eyes. :shrug: That's why cops always ask for an elaboration when you say "I've had a couple of beers" 'cause usually, "a couple beers" means "a 12 pack". :heh:


:heh: So true.

[Merlin]

I had one of these the other day. I was at a restaurant and my date asked the waitress for an Ameratto sour. The response that came back......"Sorry, we don't have that but we do have ranch dressing." :spock:

[ialsohaveadream]

I had one of these the other day. I was at a restaurant and my date asked the waitress for an Ameratto sour. The response that came back......"Sorry, we don't have that but we do have ranch dressing." :spock:
Maybe if she drank enough ranch dressing she could've gotten tanked. :)

[Itsme]

The change thing is really crazy (serious). For years some cashiers had trouble figuring how mch to charge for some items. So, McDonalds put a picture of the items on the cash register so all the clerk has to do is push the picture of the items.

Then, McDonalds had to face the next problem. The clerk received a dollar bill for a 65 cent purchase, and couldn't figure out what coins to give to make up the 35 cents change. So, some restaurants have a picture of 35 cents to tell the clerk what coins make up 35 cents.

[Prisoner 24601]

Maybe if she drank enough ranch dressing she could've gotten tanked. :)

lol :faint: Perhaps tanked in her belly and ran to the bathroom and puked for other reasons!

[guiseppewv]

Then, McDonalds had to face the next problem. The clerk received a dollar bill for a 65 cent purchase, and couldn't figure out what coins to give to make up the 35 cents change. So, some restaurants have a picture of 35 cents to tell the clerk what coins make up 35 cents.

Are you serious? :thud:

[Itsme]

Are you serious? :thud:

Absolutely, I've seen it myself.

Some registers have it done elctronically....it comes up with say 35 cents for change, then electronically tells the cashier how to make up 35 cents.

[welfareloser]

When someone says they are a couple they mean two people not a threesome.


:hihi:

to be fair, it isn't necessarily the bartender that's stupid when he wants a clarification of how many you mean by "a couple" ... he might just have a healthy suspicion that YOU don't know that a couple is two. bartenders prbably deal with more stupid people than any other profession cept tech support :P

[Sirrich3]

I guess there are people out there like these ones...

[dsuds]

1. I swear on a stack of bibles this actually happened to me!! At one tech support job I had (back in the mid 80's), one customer had damaged data on a floppy disk. I told them to make a copy of the disk and send it to me. The customer made a Xerox of the disk. That's right, a photocopy of a floppy disk. :bash:

2. At McDonalds recently I made a purchase that would result in me getting back 67 cents in change. The cashier gave me 6 dimes and seven pennies.

[Ladogaboy]

My parents had to teach a cashier how to figure out the tax owed on a purchase when her register broke, but I guess that is forgivable, considering many people have a hard time with basic addition and subtraction.

[WhiskeyPapa]

I have no doubt that every single one of us would have big problems manually counting back change if we worked at Wal-Mart.

When you're in line at Wal-Mart, you have nothing better to do than to think about how you're going to pay. The employee has ten different things to concentrate on.

It's also not fair to say "I simply gave them 22 and change..." because you're just adding 500 to your total. That's easy. They need to subtract two dissimilar four digit numbers. Something even the best of us couldn't reliably do under the same circumstances.

What if your boss came up to you during a particularly busy day at work and said "Subtract XXXX from XXXX NOW! Or you could possibly be fired!" You couldn't do it.

So there.

Just stickin' up for the little guy.

[cheapie]

naw. i gave her proper change. plus, all she has to do is type in the amount i gave her into the register and it tells her how much to give back.

[guiseppewv]

naw. i gave her proper change. plus, all she has to do is type in the amount i gave her into the register and it tells her how much to give back.


:stupid:

Besides if you said to me subtract ABCD from XYCD - I would say no problem....we aren't talking about heavy math. We are talking about subtracting a two digit number from another two digit number and then adding two - zeros to the end.

[Merlin]

I have no doubt that every single one of us would have big problems manually counting back change if we worked at Wal-Mart.

When you're in line at Wal-Mart, you have nothing better to do than to think about how you're going to pay. The employee has ten different things to concentrate on.

It's also not fair to say "I simply gave them 22 and change..." because you're just adding 500 to your total. That's easy. They need to subtract two dissimilar four digit numbers. Something even the best of us couldn't reliably do under the same circumstances.

What if your boss came up to you during a particularly busy day at work and said "Subtract XXXX from XXXX NOW! Or you could possibly be fired!" You couldn't do it.

So there.

Just stickin' up for the little guy.
Yeah, I'm with you one this one. Automating the system minimizes the mistakes that even the best of us would make on occasion. Moreover, it also makes the whole process go much faster.

[Jeffbx]

Yeah, but add in the fact that many times it's a teenager who's new to the working world and nervous to begin with, who's maybe afraid of making a mistake & getting into trouble, and I can see how it happens sometimes.



Of course, then there are the people that are just as stupid as a bag of hammers.

[Ladogaboy]

Of course, then there are the people that are just as stupid as a bag of hammers.

Hey! I'm offended on behalf of the hammers! :argue: