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  • DUD
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2002
    • 3309
    • Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA.
    • Ryobi BT3000

    #1

    They walk among us

    They walk among us...


    IDIOTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: "too many deer were being hit by cars" and he didn't want them to cross there anymore. This one was from Kingman, KS.
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    IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE: My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for "minimal lettuce." He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg. And he was a Kansas City chef!
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    IDIOT SIGHTING: I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge? To which I replied, "If it was without my knowledge, how would I know? He smiled knowingly and nodded, "That's why we ask." Happened in Birmingham, Ala.
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    IDIOT SIGHTING: The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it's safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine when she asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, "What on earth are blind people doing driving?!" She was a probation officer in Wichita, KS
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    IDIOT SIGHTING: At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker who was leaving the company due to "downsizing," our manager commented cheerfully, this is fun. We should do this more often." Not a word was spoken. We all just looked at each other with that deer-in-the-headlights stare. This was a bunch at Texas Instruments.
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    IDIOT SIGHTING: I work with an individual who plugged her power strip Back into itself and for the life of her couldn't understand why her system would not turn on. A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriff's office no less.
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    IDIOT SIGHTING: When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "it's open!" To which he replied, "I know - I already got that side." This was at the Ford dealership in Canton, Mississippi!
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    They walk among us ...
    AND REPRODUCE!!!
    5 OUT OF 4 PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND FRACTIONS.
  • jhart
    Veteran Member
    • Feb 2004
    • 1715
    • Minneapolis, MN, USA.
    • BT3100

    #2
    Ain't it the truth and really scary!!!
    Joe
    "All things are difficult before they are easy"

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    • Wood_workur
      Veteran Member
      • Aug 2005
      • 1914
      • Ohio
      • Ryobi bt3100-1

      #3
      Kinda scarry, huh? Too bad they figurred out how to reproduce.
      Alex

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      • RodKirby
        Veteran Member
        • Dec 2002
        • 3136
        • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
        • Mao Shan TSC-10RAS

        #4
        "There's your sign!"
        Downunder ... 1" = 25.4mm

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        • John Hunter
          Veteran Member
          • Dec 2004
          • 2034
          • Lake Station, IN, USA.
          • BT3000 & BT3100

          #5
          John Hunter

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          • Pappy
            The Full Monte
            • Dec 2002
            • 10490
            • San Marcos, TX, USA.
            • BT3000 (x2)

            #6
            Had a person stop to give me a letter to mail last week. I saw the .37 stamp and handed it back to him, telling him the postage had gone up to 39 cents. He went back to the car dealer where he worked and got another stamp. When he caught up to me latter in the route and I took the letter from him, he asked if the postage had gone up everywhere.

            The temptation was just too much to fight...."No, just on my route."
            Don, aka Pappy,

            Wise men talk because they have something to say,
            Fools because they have to say something.
            Plato

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            • RickCarpenter
              Forum Newbie
              • Jan 2006
              • 48
              • Huntsville, East Texas.

              #7
              Originally posted by DUD
              They walk among us ...
              AND REPRODUCE!!!
              Something even more scary: they have the right to vote...

              Rick

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              • scmhogg
                Veteran Member
                • Jan 2003
                • 1839
                • Simi Valley, CA, USA.
                • BT3000

                #8
                I'm just glad to see that they don't all live in California.

                Steve
                I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell

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                • dlminehart
                  Veteran Member
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 1829
                  • San Jose, CA, USA.

                  #9
                  We tech support folks have lotsa stories. Recently, I had someone tell me their keyboard didn't work. They'd plugged the keyboard's USB cable into its own USB socket (on the end of the keyboard, for use with a mouse) instead of into the computer! Or the person using an old CPU case as a monitor stand, complaining that their (unplugged, dead) CPU wouldn't power up for them, when their actual CPU tower was under their desk.
                  - David

                  “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” -- Oscar Wilde

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                  • RHunter
                    Established Member
                    • Mar 2004
                    • 160
                    • Mechanicsville, VA, USA.
                    • BT3100

                    #10
                    David, then there's the old one of the gal who spend some time on hold for Tech Support because she couldn't find the 'Any' key on her keyboard...

                    "Oh, what's wrong with my computer?"
                    "It must be Id10T error..."
                    "Oh my, can you fix that?"
                    "Well......"
                    "You should give blood on a regular basis.."
                    "Why I do of course, I'm a woodworker..."

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                    • Xamu
                      Established Member
                      • Jul 2003
                      • 296
                      • Chicagoland, USA.

                      #11
                      One time in a McDonalds drive thru I saw a sticker on the pick-up window which stated:

                      Braille and picture menus available upon request.

                      There are four things wrong with this.
                      1. To get to the pick-up window you must have already ordered so you won't have seen the sticker.
                      But more importantly . . .
                      2. If you need a picture menu because you can't read then you also can't read the sticker telling you that a picture menu is available. Never mind that you can't get a driver's license (I hope like heck) if you can't read.
                      Still more importantly . . .
                      3. If you are blind, you can't see the sticker at all and you won't know to ask for a braille menu.
                      and finally . . .
                      4. If you are blind, what the heck are you doing driving through the pick-up line at a McDonalds?

                      What's next? A warning label in braille on the coffee cups advising the patron not to open the top to add cream and sugar while driving?
                      TTFN,
                      JP
                      Good woodworking comes from experience. Experience comes from bad woodworking.

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                      • mater
                        Veteran Member
                        • Jan 2004
                        • 4197
                        • SC, USA.

                        #12
                        Good one Bill.
                        Ken aka "mater"

                        " People may doubt what you say but they will never doubt what you do "

                        Ken's Den

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                        • billwmeyer
                          Veteran Member
                          • Feb 2003
                          • 1868
                          • Weir, Ks, USA.
                          • BT3000

                          #13
                          Originally posted by RickCarpenter
                          Something even more scary: they have the right to vote...

                          Rick
                          I think that is pretty evident. Many even got elected.

                          Bill
                          "I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in."-Kenny Rogers

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                          • Lance
                            Established Member
                            • Jun 2005
                            • 102
                            • Haverhill, MA, USA.

                            #14
                            Well, not ALL of them reproduce. That's why we have the Darwin Awards!!!
                            Ex-Armchair Woodworker and newb galoot.

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                            • wreckwriter
                              Established Member
                              • Mar 2006
                              • 449
                              • South Florida
                              • BT3100-1

                              #15
                              Actually I've always thought we walk among them; they outnumber us.
                              http://www.wreckwriter.com/

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