Dee-Dee Sheridan
06-04-2003, 01:16 PM
>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?" "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.
>-------------------------------------------------
>The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what happened a couple of
>months ago. I was checking out at
>the local Foodland 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 asked me "Do you know how much this is?", and 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 what
>had just happened.....
>-----------------------------------------------------
>A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and
>pulling it out very quickly. When 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".
>-----------------------------------------------------
>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 un-locker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think
>they (pointing to a distant convenient 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."
>-----------------------------------------------------
>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.
>
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?" "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.
>-------------------------------------------------
>The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what happened a couple of
>months ago. I was checking out at
>the local Foodland 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 asked me "Do you know how much this is?", and 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 what
>had just happened.....
>-----------------------------------------------------
>A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and
>pulling it out very quickly. When 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".
>-----------------------------------------------------
>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 un-locker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think
>they (pointing to a distant convenient 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."
>-----------------------------------------------------
>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.
>