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    Funny stupid people stories

    Some of these (if not all) may be OBG, but I hadn't heard em.
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    Do you know any of these people?

    Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken Mc Nuggets. 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 Mc Nuggets.

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    The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what happened a couple of months ago. I was checking out at the local Foodland 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?" and 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!

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    A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When 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."

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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    CONCLUSION:

    "Life is tough. But it's a lot tougher if you're stupid."
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    Thank you for amusing me.

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    Re: Funny stupid people stories

    Originally posted by Jenny
    "Life is tough. But it's a lot tougher if you're stupid."
    John Wayne.

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    Quite often I am totally amazed at the lack of decision making ability given to employees. It seems that they're all told to "just follow the rules." These are all true stories that have happened to me.

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    Sunday we took all the kids to McDonalds for the 39 cent Sunday ice cream cones. I went up to the counter and ordered 8 vanilla cones. The weekend supervisor (who was probably 19) says "I'm sorry, there is a limit of 5." I asked why. He said that if they make too many cones in a row, the ice cream machine could freeze up. I pondered that for a second, then changed my order to 5 cones and 3 McFlurrys.

    He was fine with that, even though a McFlurry has more ice cream than a cone!

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    Several years ago I was out of town on business. I was bored and wanted to go see a movie. I got to the theater ticket counter at exactly 10:15 (there was a digital clock there) and asked for a ticket to "Diehard III" (which started at 10:00.) The counter girl said "I'm sorry, our box office closes 15 minutes after the last show starts." I pointed at the clock and asked if they had already cleared out the register or something. "No", she said, "I just can't sell you a ticket now, since we're closed." The ticket price was $5, so I pulled out a $5 bill and said "You mean, I can't just give you this money, and walk through that door into the movie?"

    Just then, the manager came out of the office. Finally, I thought, someone with a level head will sell me a ticket. The manager says "Sir, are you going to leave, or do I have to call the police?"

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    A few months ago I was at Wal-Mart. I felt lucky because I found a line with only one person in it. She was buying two bras, so I thought I'd be out in two minutes. Well, the bras didn't ring up at the right price or something, because the cachier fliped on that light flashy thing to call a supervisor. The cashier and the supervisor take turns ringing up the bras and clearing it out. This went on for several minutes, as the line is getting longer and people are getting restless. They finally had THREE Wal-Mart employees all trying their best to scan the bras. I finally looked close enough to see what was going on. The bras were marked at $5 each, but were ringing up at $5.25!!!! I've been waiting more than 10 minutes for a lousy 50 cents? I was just about ready to reach in my pocket and throw out two quarters when they finally figured it out. I can't believe there wasn't something they could have done quicker than that, like a manual price override or enter a 50 cent coupon or anything!

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    he he he... very good Jenny!
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    "Like I ****ing said, "Ok, so I hear it may be a repost. Blah But I had never seen it, so..." **** you Canta." -Jenny 12/4/2003

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    My gf told me this last night about one of these high school workers turned new manager that has "management power" over her. If I get this story wrong I'm sure she'll come in and correct me.

    I guess working retail you need to tally up all the bills, checks and coins before depositing. So this HS manager girl gets know-it-all-ish and angry about how to handle travelers cheques. She's angry becuase the store received travelers cheques as payment and the employees were giving out real money back as change. She proceeded to tell everyone they aren't supposed to give real money back. So my gf and the other manager was like ... ok...then what do you give back as change if you don't give back real American money?

    This happened last night and the girl seems dead set on the travelers cheques are money but you can't exchange or get change for American money.

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