an interesting email i received
How do these people survive?
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>> ONE 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
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>> 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.
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>> THREE 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."
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>> FOUR
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>> 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."
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>> 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 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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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> 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?"
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>> Life is tough.
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>> It's tougher if you're stupid!"
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How do these people survive?
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>> ONE 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 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."
>>
>> FOUR
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>> 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 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.
>>
>> 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.
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>> 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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>> Life is tough.
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>> It's tougher if you're stupid!"
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