A few gripes

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jblackwelljr

Or why those cardboard car sun shades carry the warning: DO NOT USE WHILE DRIVING

Are we getting off topic??

This has been off topic for the last 2 1/2 pages! But it's fun!

[dragenrider]

Messing with the new guys at the airport is kind of fun. I fly on an air medical helicopter, so we can always ask for a bucket of rotor wash and twelve feet of flight line.

On the medical side, we always ask the new student nurses to hand us a pair of fallopian tubes or a Henway. ("What's a Henway?" "About three pounds") Newbies are fun! [:D]

[Anonymous]

Ah the JOYS of those "Senior Moments" we are all living or have to look forward to!!
Did you ever find the Hydrocal in the Homasote aisle, Chip.
OK let me retrace my steps, I started off this journey with a coffee cup, where did it run off to this time.[:D][:I][:D][}:)][?]

Will ... off on another coffee run & pit stop!

[Anonymous]

How about airline peanuts? "DIRECTIONS: Open package, and eat."

Also, on a package of nuts: Caution: Contains nuts."

Matt

[|)]

[Anonymous]

Do not ask how I know this BUT, ......... they say the mind is the second thing to go!!!

Will

[oleirish]

[:D][:D][:D][:D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]You guys are out of control,do like I did take a break,I went to the coast for five daysbought a new car before I went,things are better now

SO TAKE A BREAK
JIM

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Overdurff

Do not ask how I know this BUT, ......... they say the mind is the second thing to go!!!

Will

My Dad always said that there were three things that go as you get older. First is your memory, and he forgot the other two............[8D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MAbruce

QUOTE: Originally posted by Medina1128

Don't get me started on "human ignorance". Have you looked at the warning sticker on a gas pump? "DO NOT POINT TOWARD FACE. DO NOT SMOKE WHILE REFUELING. (and the best one) DO NOT INGEST." I thought the old gas pumps (the ones WITHOUT the warnings) were nature's way of weeding out the weak and stupid. Really, should anyone THAT dumb be driving a car?

While we're on that subject, I've always wondered why drive-thru ATM's have brail on the buttons. [:0]

I think that one may make some weird sense - I'd guess they're using the same keypad as all their other ATMs to keep the costs down. The one that puzzled me most was some information I read while preparing to take my driving test back in 2000. Apparently you can have an interpreter with you on the test if you can't read - shouldn't the ability to read be a requirement for holding a license? How these people are going to cope with roadsigns afterwards is beyond me...

[davekelly]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MAbruce

QUOTE: Originally posted by Medina1128

Don't get me started on "human ignorance". Have you looked at the warning sticker on a gas pump? "DO NOT POINT TOWARD FACE. DO NOT SMOKE WHILE REFUELING. (and the best one) DO NOT INGEST." I thought the old gas pumps (the ones WITHOUT the warnings) were nature's way of weeding out the weak and stupid. Really, should anyone THAT dumb be driving a car?

While we're on that subject, I've always wondered why drive-thru ATM's have brail on the buttons. [:0]

I once called a bank and complained that the braille on the drive-thru ATM had been filed down. Hoping for a chuckle I actually got a "well, I'm not aware of that." Hoping to help out I said "it is very disappointing when I drive up to the ATM and can't use the machine, especially when I didn't have anyone with me as I was alone....i finally had to drive off without doing my business." She still was hemming and hawing, so finally I said "can I speak to your manager to voice my displeasure that a blind person cannot drive up in his car and use your drive thru ATM unless he has someone with him because the braille is filed off?" I heard her talking to someone and then a very loud "WHAT?" I still chuckle about that.

Of course I also like to ask credit card telemarketers the following quesitons:

1. In response to "you have been pre-approved" I ask "for how much?" Of course we then debate for a bit what "pre-approved" means.

2. "Is this one of the cards that I have to make payments on?"

3. "You guys give cards to unemployed folks? Way cool - how much you gonna give me?"

If the question isn't on their preprinted sheets, they don't know the answer.

[hdbob]

you guys are to funny
gas cap on fender was a dodge charger 69/69 great car ok now for my story,
worked for home depot had a customer come in and asked for an adjustible wrench but it had to be metric!! (ok you know what im thinking) but he was dead serious! gave him a cresent and he was happy as hell!
but my best HD story was a woman who asked for car mats, I explained that we didnt carry them! and she insisted that we did, I then told her that this was HD and we carry items for HOME repair/HOME improvement! and she turned to me and said" but I keep my car at HOME" so I just shook my head and walked away laughing to my self!
and one more, customer asked where could they find the "BLACK ELECTRIAL TAPE"as he was in the PLUMBING DEPT at that time, I smiled and said the electric dept!
hdbob

[SOU Fan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pcarrell

QUOTE: Originally posted by Overdurff

Do not ask how I know this BUT, ......... they say the mind is the second thing to go!!!

Will

My Dad always said that there were three things that go as you get older. First is your memory, and he forgot the other two............[8D]

[(-D][(-D]

[andrechapelon]

OK, wise guys. The engine in my Honda Odyssey produces 240 HP . What's the equivalent in Kilowatts? [:D]

Andre

[SOU Fan]

Why do people call it an ATM machine. Your saying automated teller machine machine. Or PIN number. Personal Identification Number number[%-)]

[davekelly]

QUOTE: Originally posted by andrechapelon

OK, wise guys. The engine in my Honda Odyssey produces 240 HP . What's the equivalent in Kilowatts? [:D]

Andre

178.968 kW

[davekelly]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dekruif

Why do people call it an ATM machine. Your saying automated teller machine machine. Or PIN number. Personal Identification Number number[%-)]

Or SAT Test. The Scholastic Aptitude Test test.

[RoyalOaker]

OK, This was terrible what happened to me a while back.

I was sitting on the toilet doing my business when I realized that someone had installed the toilet paper the wrong way.

I kept spinning the paper around and around but it would never come off the role. [;)]

[BigRusty]

Somebody wake up the Administrator, PLEASE!!!!

[andrechapelon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by RoyalOaker

OK, This was terrible what happened to me a while back.

I was sitting on the toilet doing my business when I realized that someone had installed the toilet paper the wrong way.

I kept spinning the paper around and around but it would never come off the role. [;)]

If you'd spun it the other way, it would have.

'Course, then you'd have been using the wrong side of the paper. [:D]

Andre

[andrechapelon]

In the 1947 movie "The Senator Was Indiscreet", William Powell as the Senator in question was asked how felt about inflation.

He was against it.

He was then asked about deflation.

He was against that.

Irritated, the interviewer asked him what he was for. The Senator replied, "Flation".

Andre

[csmith9474]

QUOTE: Originally posted by davekelly

QUOTE: Originally posted by dekruif

Why do people call it an ATM machine. Your saying automated teller machine machine. Or PIN number. Personal Identification Number number[%-)]

Or SAT Test. The Scholastic Aptitude Test test.

NIC card????

[Anonymous]

I saw a good variation on that one in New Scientist recently - "Personal Identification PIN Number". They had a whole series of them!