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    1. 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

    2. 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.

    3.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.'

    4. 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.'

    5. 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.

    6. 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.

    7. 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?'

    8. 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.

    9. 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

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    Lol. Especially if it really happened.

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    Are you on an email list with 60 year old men? This is like **** my parents would try to forward me.
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    hell naw

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhiteAccord
    1. 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
    I've had pretty much this EXACT thing happen to me at a Subway once...

    I asked for a 12" Italian BMT sub. The guy, who was acting pretty cocky since the time I walked in, looks at me, looks behind him at the menu, and back at me, and replies with this cocky know-it-all smirk, "We don't have 12 inches, just 6" and foot long subs."

    I hesitated. I wanted to laugh because I believed he was just trying to be a smart ass, and making a corny joke as to attempt some light flirtation. We just kind of stared at one another for a few moments, and then I just sort of stuttered when I realized... this guy seriously did NOT know 12 inches = 1 foot.
    "Uhh..."
    "Oh, just get the foot long, it's probably about the same thing."
    "Um.. yeah... yeah, I'll have a foot long Italian BMT..."

    I turned to see the two customers behind me, their mouths as gaping as mine in disbelief.



    Oh, and this happened where I lived in NYC. This was the Subway in front of Madison Square Park on 23rd Street. I wouldn't recommend it, as a week later, a different guy making my sandwich cuts his finger through the clear plastic gloves they wear, and instead of leaving the area to clean and bandage it up, he just sticks ANOTHER clear plastic glove over it. Never went there again.

    Stay away from this Subway!! (P.S., I still go to Subway DAILY and Georgia Subways NEED to start getting Provolone cheese as an option ! )

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    Similar thing happened to me at I think KFC. I wanted a dozen pieces of some kind of chicken, and she said they only did 6 per order. So I said, so then how about 2 orders of 6 to make a dozen, and made her feel dumb and me superior at the same time!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sararose
    I hesitated. I wanted to laugh because I believed he was just trying to be a smart ass, and making a corny joke as to attempt some light flirtation.
    Ive done something kinda simialar before, got me the date to

    I had a girl ask me if we had a keyless entry remote for her Ford Escape. I told her, "no, we dont sell Ford parts here." She just kinda looked at me. I work at a Ford dealership BTW

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    originally posted by WhiteAccord
    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.'
    I remember seeing this happen to a woman in one of those VW touregs. She was ready to call her family to come out and help her. Another thing is people locking themselves out when they know their car doors lock automatically at certain times.

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    I actually think the car key vs. clicker situation is more common then you'd think (unfortunately). I know a few people who think the car key on the key chain is strickly for the ignition and would have no idea it doubles as your car door key.

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    I lirl'd at the keyless entry one, thats good stuff reps
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    Quote Originally Posted by X-Runner
    Ive done something kinda simialar before, got me the date to

    I had a girl ask me if we had a keyless entry remote for her Ford Escape. I told her, "no, we dont sell Ford parts here." She just kinda looked at me. I work at a Ford dealership BTW

    at smoothie king, i used to do that with cute guys. haha. whenever they said they want a smoothie, i said, "we don't have smoothies here." lol. or if they said they wanted a certain one, i would say, "we don't have that." haha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Autumn
    at smoothie king, i used to do that with cute guys. haha. whenever they said they want a smoothie, i said, "we don't have smoothies here." lol. or if they said they wanted a certain one, i would say, "we don't have that." haha
    Aren't you just the sharpest tool in the shed, haha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ironchef
    Aren't you just the sharpest tool in the shed, haha.

    meanie. they smiled and laughed with me.

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    You know...some of that stuff really doesn't surprise me at all....and that's kinda sad (but still hilarious).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Autumn
    meanie. they smiled and laughed with me.
    Are you sure it wasn't at you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ironchef
    Are you sure it wasn't at you?
    i'm sure it was with me. they asked me for my name and said they'll see me around. so.. HA.

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