They walk Among us......

[bagpiper]

I was out shopping with the wife and we found a large box that we wanted to buy. We got to the check out and I asked the young lady if I could put the box down and come back in a moment as it was too big to carry. She told me that they don't allow that. I said "so you wont let me put the box down here and come back in about a minute and pay for it?" She told me that if I put the box down then someone else can buy it and she wont stop them. I told her again that all I was doing was putting the box down I was going to buy and would be back in about a minute, but she insisted that if I put it down then it is not her reponsibility. My wife could tell I was getting annoyed.

I could not belief how stupid this girl was/is. I put the box down and we left without it. We wanted to go back and pick up something else but could not carry any more. So she managed to lose our business on more than just the box.

Cheers
Jim

[bagpiper]

Originally Posted by treadhead1952

I think they are pretty well spread out across the globe so that no one area lacks for their fair share. Although they do seem to congregate heavily in the capital cities of each nation for some reason, we call them politicians.

That reminds me of the joke, why do politicians not take Viagra? Because it just makes them taller.

Cheers
Jim

[ThunderChild]

Well, we have them in abundance here in South Africa...

Johannesburg: These men spent the whole day installing metal poles to prevent vehicles from parking in that spot.
They are busy cleaning up.

How long till they realize....

[Kaz]

Oh no.. that old chestnut. The story was it was in Belfast (The English having the regular 'pop' at the expense of the Irish) Turns out its in Liverpool, and it was photoshopped!

[whulsey]

Still an amusing photo. Makes me think of some of the temporary stops set up for our buses when they're doing construction. The guy pulls in with his pu puts up the barriers and pulls out without a thought that our standard buses are 40 feet long.

[StormDragon]

I fix ATMS. I have a large vehicle, pulled into the banks drive-thru lane the wrong way, with emergency cones out around me, the ATM open, and parts lying all around me.

There are times I will look up from the ATM and see a LINE of 5-6 cars waiting to use the ATM. That's when I take a "working break" and get some coffee from my thermos.

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[richkat]

Used to work for a copier company. Was at a company working on the copier (major rebuild) parts laying allll over the place, lady come up and says "I just need one quick copy" puts the original in it and hits the button, hits the button,and hits button HARD and then looks a me and says "this thing isn't working"........WOW.....Rich

[RodentMaster]

The term idiot is not roman, nor is it greek.

It's FRENCH! Quite interesting actually... You should look up the history. The French at one time were quite concerned with the potential decline of society with the rampant poor masses (think French Revolution era). They did a study to categorize the mental decline or mental disease (as much as they could understand at the time) and came up with idiot, imbecile, perhaps moron, and some others. They were a ranking or scale of different mental faculties.

Exactly where the different terms lay on the scale I never learned, but it's quite an interesting tidbit!


EDIT: that's not to say there weren't root words of similar sound from earlier ages, but the French defined it as the way we use it now. They spelled it out.

[sgoti]

Yesterday, the lunch discussion was elk hunting. Black powder season vs rifle season vs bow hunting. I said I was waiting for atlatl season. One guy, in all seriousness, asked "is there really an atlatl season?"

[RunwayOneSixRight]

Originally Posted by CMDRTED

There are many ER Idiot stories, the best one was checking a 14 year old for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases I asked hefr if she was sexually active and she replied No I just kinda lay there!!!

-RunwayOneSixRight (Matthew)