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« on: February 16, 2006, 11:17:56 PM »
I just ran across these stories on the internet . . . what's scarey is some of them are probably true!   :lol:

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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.

TWO

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.

THREE

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

FOUR

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."

FIVE

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 copy 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.

SIX

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.

SEVEN

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?"

EIGHT

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.

NINE

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!

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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2006, 06:33:50 AM »
I've seen these before. They are hilarious but sadly very true. If it weren't for the register telling the clerk how much change to give, 3/4ths of the people operating cash registers wouldn't be able to give correct change.

Ignorance can be fixed.................stupid is FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:

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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2006, 11:22:24 AM »
And they probably all drive rice-burners!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2006, 02:11:18 PM »
:lol: Reading those stories and seeing how stupid people can be kinda makes me look as if I'm somewhat intelligent. Doesn't it??? Herb..Anyone......

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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2006, 04:49:16 PM »
Every time I go through McDonald's and deal with the kids behind the counter I walk out feeling a little smarter . . . and then I think to myself, "Dude.  You just ate at McDonald's!"  Then I feel as dumb as ever!   :tard:

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« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2006, 07:35:28 PM »
just be glad you didnt find blood at the bottom of your fries out of your "happy meal" like that one lady...42 year old woman eating a happy meal..here is your sign.

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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2006, 09:36:39 AM »
Ever get a total of, say, $4.78 and give $5.03 so you can get a quarter back? I have had the clerk try to give me the pennies back! It almost embarasses me having to tell them "it's okay, just punch it in like that"! :lol:

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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2006, 10:38:07 PM »
Starting kids on computers before pre-K is big mistake.  Ever hear someone say something like "My kid is so smart!  He can already work a computer and he's only 4!"  Well, no offenese lady, but I've seen chimps on Animal Planet pushing the correct buttons on a computer to get banana chips before they were 2!

OK, maybe when he's 6 and can "chat" with his buddies online, then he's smart, right?  When I was 6, me and my buddy next door were stretching a 100 feet of string between two cans so we could actually talk to each other.  Pretty low tech, but we were actually learning something that might prove usefull in the future.

Don't get me wrong, I think computers, calculators, digital watches and cell phones are great.  I just think you need to know how to survive a day or two if the power is out and the batteries are dead.  It's also kind'a hard to explain "Clockwise" or "Counter-Clockwise" to someone who learned to tell time on a digital watch!   :?

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« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2006, 08:23:22 AM »
:twisted: Keep on Preachin' Zen. I'm right there in your shirt pocket on this one. My children do not play any video games. That's why they invented books and you are born with IMAGINATION!!

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« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2006, 09:56:49 AM »
I have to disagree...if only a little bit.

Talia is six years old.  She has her own computer.  The games on it are educational.  They have a point.  She has to use her mind to play them.  There are not any "shoot-em-up", pointless, mindless games on there.  She has her own cell phone with pre-programmed numbers where she can call them and only them (mommy, daddy, grandma, best friend, 911).  Yet she walks next door nearly every day to talk and play with the kid over there.  We are not even going to set her computer up for any chatting!

She also has a bookshelf full of books.  Every day, we read from either those books or a book she has brought home from school.  And imagination...she has one that puzzles, amazes, and teaches even me.  There are worlds of wonder in her scenarios she creates with her toys.
 
We can't help that our stove and microwave have digital clocks in them.  But we do have analog clocks on the walls of our living room and in Talia's room.  She is learning how to tell time and count money.  Six years old...hmmm...I wasn't even in school when I was six.
 
I do agree that children today have too much just given to them to a point where they don't have to think.  Too much TV can be bad, but in moderation...it can be a learning tool.  There are channels out there that are nothing but pre-school friendly.  No commercials to push the latest toy on them, no killing or dying, no "I hate you", etc.
 
Technology doesn't have to be the enemy.  We, as parents, need to learn how to use it to benefit those who need learning the most...our children.  Most children are left to their own devices.  That's when the wonder of TV, computers, cell phones, video games and the like turn detrimental.

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« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2006, 05:55:26 PM »
The point I was trying to make goes along with what Travis said . . . there is nothing "wrong" with all these latest and greatest techno-toys . . . just as long as you are taught to think for yourself first!  At that point, they can become "tools" instead of toys.  The problem is that 90% of the kids today don't have near enough parental guidance on these gadgets.

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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2006, 08:39:16 AM »
I think the "key word" is parental guidance. Doing the job I did for 25 years, I saw, day in and day out how the majority of parents expected the schools, police and other significant people in the community to undertake the job of "raising" their children. It is amazing to me how many parents expect society to be baby sitters for their children. If you don't think that is true, go to most any mall and watch parents pull up to the front door and let out children anywhere from the ages of 7 or 8 up to 14 or 15 and drive off leaving their children for employees and others to baby sit their children. Then when the child gets into trouble they (parents) want to blame everyone except where the blame belongs. They need to look into a mirror and then point a finger. The "mall" situation is a very sad one. Our news services are "bought off" by rich shopping center conglomerates and horrors that happen in malls are not reported as I think they should be or pushed to the back of the news and down played. Seventy five percent of the public has no earthly idea just what all goes on during a typical day in a typical mall. You have child molesters, drug dealers, shoplifters who openly steal merchandise and these are just the mild things. Once again, when something happens to a child then the parents want to blame everyone but who they should blame.

Our children didn't go to a mall by themselves until after they had started driving. Nor were any of them bought a car. They worked and bought their own. Yes, we helped with insurance but the car was their responsibility. when it broke, we helped, UNLESS, they broke it being stupid.

So many children do not know the meaning of the word NO and I think parents who do not teach this meaning are hurting the child, not helping.

Computers are fine and can be a good teaching aid but I think there should be more "hands on" education by parents and less dependency on modern technology.

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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2006, 01:41:42 PM »
Dang Herb !!!  Kinda hard to top that one. Might add the fact that I didn't know that my tax dollars were feeding lunch during the summer to a bunch of kids. I can't belive the parents could not take care of feeding their kids during the summer,that is if they know or who  their parents are or where they are. Turns out the summer lunch program was being robbed by the person in charge. Is she in jail yet ?
     A new set of lyrics for a old Negro ( African-Americans in case you didn't know) spiritual :  " JumpDown  Run Around  Who pays the bail for Cotton" etc,etc. or maybe " Love is a many Splintered Thing"
     Wasn't it Sir Chris Newton that discovered the law of phyics that if you held a Bribe in one hand and a copy of "Business Ethics for Elected Officials" in the other hand, dropped them at the same , that the bribe would reach Sir Newtons pocket first ?
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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2006, 07:56:51 PM »
^^ hey, nothing wrong with making kids pay for their own stuff. I paid for all of my cars, and I had to save the money beforehand cause mom and dad won't lend me the money. Since the bug is my personal project car I pay for all of the parts myself, whearas my golf they help me with along the way costs (my daily). I pay for gas, and help on insurance, its no biggie, just taught me to appreciate what I've got.

And yeah, most of those scare me..I can relate to some of these, because I feel like I have been there. About a month ago I got in a slight argument at taco bell because I handed the cashier a ten and she gave me change for a twenty. I ended up keeping the extra cash, but tried to explain to her what she had done; I tried...but some people there is no explaining to :lol:

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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2006, 09:38:11 PM »
I totally agree Herb. You and I were in the same line of work and I too many times saw the parents drop the kids off and drive away. Then when you caught little Dick or Jane red handed, even with video, the parents were adamant that their kids do no wrong. Every one else was wrong in the situation.

I am so thankful for my son and how he has matured. I feel that one of the greatest things that caused him to turn out this way is the amount of quality time his mother spent with him. I worked mostly nights and only got to spend limited family time. I feel that getting the 67 VW and turning him loose with it to restore kept him off the street for 2.5 years and focused on something. We never dropped him off on someone else to watch while we "did our thing".We tried to always include him in everything we did, even if it was going to get groceries.  We gave him as much freedom as he deserved and earned and by the same token took it away in the same manner.

The bottom line is what has been stated here. A child has to have parental guidance. You are to be a parent not their "best friend". As a parent you have to set the "example" for your child. Just my 2 cents worth.  :D

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