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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 (Unbelievable but sadly true...) (Must have been the same one I asked for sweetener, and she said they didn't have any, only Splenda and sugar.)
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.
( But the lady behind me had a big smirk on her face as I left)
THREE A woman 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.'
(Keep shuddering!!)
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 don't know. 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....'
PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!
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 paper from the photocopier', 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.
Brunette, by the way!!
SIX A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......' Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency right away'
Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're Stupid!!!! Someone had to remind me, so I'm reminding you too. Don't laugh....it is all true.
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I'm more shocked that people have desktops with floppy disks still.
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Horrendous.
Thanks world. You're succeeding
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Well, since someone said all this on the internet, then it must have actually happened. I mean, they say right at the end that it's all true!
I am unfamiliar with this feeling of optimism
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Well, since someone said all this on the internet, then it must have actually happened. I mean, they say right at the end that it's all true!
Fixed. 
I sort of doubt most of those are true ... However, I do have a personal experience though ... I was at Subway one time and asked for a Ham and Swiss sandwich. They then immediately asked if I wanted cheese on that. 
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I'm more shocked that people have desktops with floppy disks still.
I caught that too....
True story...a couple weeks ago I'm sitting at home and playing with my tablet. Notice I have a new email so I check it, and it's work email. I read it. It is my boss asking if I can print the attached document. I reply, I can tomorrow but why can't he.
His reply was that when he tried to it told him he had to save the file to the disc first, and he didn't have any discs and didn't know where I kept them. Yes this was just 2 or 3 weeks ago. Nevermind he is always creating and saving documents, and manages to download and save all the family phots his wife and kids email him.
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Actually one more ... Back when I was in high-school, we had a substitute teacher for one class. That usually meant we'd watch a movie for the duration of class. They had put one of the TV's with VCR on a cart and it was sitting in the back of the room. The Substitute turned on the TV and then proceeded to go to the front of the class and pull down the white projection screen. He sat there for a minute waiting for an image to show up on the screen as we looked at him completely puzzled. Finally he asked ... "You mean this doesn't project up?" We were all like, "Uh no ... we'll just teach ourselves today, okay?"
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I think you guys are forgetting the point of this thread. People were never stupid (maybe I've been spelling that wrong all this time and it's supposed to be st00pid?), but now they are and we're all doomed.  I know, this is for entertainment (I mean, nobody really took all that seriously, right?). I'm a reasonably intelligent person. And I guess I could fall into this category of "st00pid." When I was in college, I checked the oil in my car. I noticed it was really really low. I was flummoxed because I never noticed any leak, anything like that. And, that was a car that I changed the oil myself, and I had done it not too long before. So, I just figured something was wrong with the car, so I put in a couple quarts of oil. The next time I drove, there was steam shooting out of the engine and it reeked of burning oil. When I got home, I checked the oil dipstick and I was, you guessed it, a couple quarts of oil heavy. I had checked the transmission fluid dipstick the first time. Maybe it should have been a hint that the oil was red, for some reason. I just wasn't thinking, just wasn't paying attention. What a moron.
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change the https to http and it'll work.... I need to update the code to account for that. edit: LOL!! 
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change the https to http and it'll work.... I need to update the code to account for that.
Yeah, already fixed it. I figured the secure http was creating the issue.
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change the https to http and it'll work.... I need to update the code to account for that.
Yeah, already fixed it. I figured the secure http was creating the issue.
And, I just fixed the code, so https:// will work going forward. 
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I don't doubt that all of these are true. Ever wonder where they find these kids to work the drive-thru? And even worse you know that their gonna breed!  A few yrs. ago I was going thru a Wendy's drive-thru, I gave the kid a $20. and about .06 for something like 4.36. Poor kid did not know what to do, told me to wait there and went off to find the manager. He gets there and asks me what I want and I tell him I'm just waiting on my change. The kid explains what I have given them and what kind of change do they need to give me? The manager hands me back the .06 and tells me to just take the change that I'll get back from the $20  I could have cried from laughing so hard.
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I don't doubt that all of these are true. Ever wonder where they find these kids to work the drive-thru? And even worse you know that their gonna breed! 
A few yrs. ago I was going thru a Wendy's drive-thru, I gave the kid a $20. and about .06 for something like 4.36. Poor kid did not know what to do, told me to wait there and went off to find the manager. He gets there and asks me what I want and I tell him I'm just waiting on my change. The kid explains what I have given them and what kind of change do they need to give me? The manager hands me back the .06 and tells me to just take the change that I'll get back from the $20 I could have cried from laughing so hard.
You're the stupid one there.. If your total is $4.36 and you hand them $20.06, you will be getting that nickel back. But I think we know what you mean.
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Hey! I wanted two dimes and two quarters back 
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The sad thing is, this happened at McD's and Burger King to. Now the Kids have it made.....New Machines that tell them how much to give back. Poor Kids now-a-days don't have to use their brains. That's the problem.
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If you think about 100 is the average IQ, so one standard deviation away is 90, and retardation begins at 70 IQ. So there's not much room to putz around.
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Well, since someone said all this on the internet, then it must have actually happened. I mean, they say right at the end that it's all true!
Bet you all did not know I am a French model?.... 
Einstein could not even fathom the mathematical improbabilities of the Browns woes.
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Hey... how long has it been since anyone counted back your change.... up to the denomination you gave them?
example:
"$11.32... out of $20. (8 cents) 11.40 (a dime) 11,50 (2 quarters) 11,75, 12 dollars... and 3 makes fifteen... and five makes 20. Thank you- and have a nice day!"
It's a lost art in anything but a Mom & Pop shop these days.
I always liked it because the coin was laid in your hands FIRST... with the bills following it. Nowadays, some surly, know-noting teen is laying the coin on top of the bills (because the readout says change: $8.68)... and the coins always slide off the bills onto the counter (or worse yet- the pavement beneath the Drive- "Thru"
Whic bring me to another pt-peeve: "Thru"....
(I could riff on this st00pid crap all night....)
For all our so-called modern 'advancements,' (and no doubt, there have been plenty that make life easier/better/faster, etc), we've also abdicated a certain amount of our ability to use common sense and critical judgement in the process. I've been seeing it, little by little over the past 30 years.
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Counting back change was one of the hardest things I had to teach kids in restaurants I ran. They just had no idea how it worked.
I remember one girl freaking out, and calling me back because she put in something like $1000 as cash tendered instead of $10. She was lost. It was actually kinda sad. She thought that her drawer was going to be $1000 short. lol
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 But sad, too- as you said...
"too many notes, not enough music-"
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I have managed restaurants in all kinds of areas too. It's not just a poor, inner city problem. (though that was where this particular store drew most of its employees from)
I saw similar stuff at a restaurant out on the southern end of Boardman near Poland and North Lima, a wealthier area, yet still kids had no real clue how to count back change.
Heck, my mom taught me how to count change originally.
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DOH! I cannot subtract properly myself. I don't know where I was getting 80 cents from, but you are still getting that silly nickel back.. 2 quarters, a dime, a nickel and 5 pennies.
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The sad thing is, this happened at McD's and Burger King to. Now the Kids have it made.....New Machines that tell them how much to give back. Poor Kids now-a-days don't have to use their brains. That's the problem.
Yes, those machines make you lazy. I'm a little slow at figuring it out sometimes standing behind the counter, though it only takes a few seconds for that lightbulb to switch on. When I'm on the customer side of things it comes to me quickly. It is not necessarily that they are stupid but while using the register, you can get into a certain habit and pattern that you become a mindless drone just punching the amount into the machine and watching as it spits out the amount of change you are to give back. But then, you do get those that truly are inept.
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This thread is a bunch of crabby old men sitting around McDonalds all day , drinking free cups of coffee saying "back in my day....., these kids now a days... I walked 5 miles,uphill both ways..." 
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Since we're talking restaurants, particular McD, my wife and I stop for a bite most Sundays after church, during season it's McD because you just can't get into anywhere else without an hour plus wait.
Just last my wife orders a #2 with a hot mocha, I order a #11 with a fountain drink.
Here's the transcript best of memory.
Clerk: Hey, what I get you? (yes, that's how he said it) Wife: I'll have a #2 with a hot mocha please. 7-8 seconds passes while he punches button after button with a confused look on his face. Clerk: You want just the sandwich. My wife is confused at this point, so I jump in. Me: No. She would like the #2 meal please. With a Hot Mocha. another 5-10 seconds passes, more confusing looks. Clerk: What flavor Mocha do you want. Wife: *Points to placard on counter that says Hot Mocha* I want the Hot Mocha. Clerk: What milk you want? Wife: Ummm....*I look at my wife and start to laugh*.... She says, give me whole milk what the heck.
Now in the past they have screwed this up and either gave her a regular coffee or an iced mocha, etc. So now she is going to watch like a hawk as they make her Mocha.
Clerk: *Looking at me* Whaddaya need? Me: I need the winning lottery numbers, but I'll take a #11 MEAL with a fountain drink. Clerk punches buttons for what seems like 3 hours. Clerk: What do you want to drink? Me: Umm.. I'll take a fountain drink. Clerk: We got water in the machine oer'der, no water founatin. Me: *Now I'm just bursting laughing inside* Ok, then I'll just have a cup for the machine over there. Clerk: Did you want to make that a meal? Me: You know, that actually sounds like a great idea, let's do that. At this point the young couple with 3 small kids behind me are smiling and laughing.
Clerk: Ok, you owe me 6.21. that to go? Me: No, that is for here, but 6.21 is too low, please read back what you have. Clerk: I got it all, it's 6.21 Me: No, it should be around 9 dollars, please read what you have. Clerk: Egg McMuffin, 2 sausage burittos, a coffee and a water. Me: That's close, but we ordered 1 Egg McMuffin MEAL with a HOT MOCHA, and a Sausage Buritto MEAL with a founta....errr COKE. Clerk: *punches a bunch of buttons for probably 30-45 seconds. That be 9.43
At this point like what seems be be the new McDonalds way, you step back into a mob of people waiting for their food, since there is no lines or order and pickup areas, just a counter with registers and a large area where everyone who comes in walks around saying, "are you in line or waiting for food?"
I checked my phone, and it took 7 minutes from the time I stepped back from the counter to get my food. And the coupel with 3 small kids ordered and got their food before we did.
PS: They got the Hot Mocha right.
I'm so glad season is almost over and we can go to real restaurants again.
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Florida tourist season, down side is I can't just shoot them and throw them on the hood. 
During "season" restaurant wait times go from 20-30 mins on a busy night off-season, to 90mins to 2 hours easy during peak times. If you eat dinner at 4:00-4:30 your probably OK, but by 5 there is a 1hr wait and it build from there until about 9pm when it starts to taper off.
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This thread is a bunch of crabby old men sitting around McDonalds all day , drinking free cups of coffee saying "back in my day....., these kids now a days... I walked 5 miles,uphill both ways..."
YEP.
And it's one of the best threads I've read in a while. The sad part is, regardless if the original stories are true or not... that most of these things are common today and the country is going to hell in a hand basket. The "TECH" generation is so 'dumbed down' they struggle to communicate properly, perform simple math or understand basic logic.... Common sense, actual knowledge of how things work and the ability adapt and innovate new ideas are dying. Very sad for this Grumpy old man.
*** And whomever it was the said they spelled stupid "s-t-u-p-i-d", I do too, but the big eyes 'OO' were too much to resist for this thread!
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Yea, but on the other hand the old fogeys didn't think much of us when we were kids. 
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Wait, so it's the Tech Generation that's been running the government all these years?????????
Man, I thought it was mostly Boomers. I was GRAVELY mistaken...
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I have a good one. I worked in a library for over 5 years and was at the front desk one day when a seemingly confused patron came in.
Patron: "Is dis da liberry?"
Me: "Yes, it is."
Patron: "You got books here?"
Me (pointing directly behind myself at the racks of 13,000+ books that were in the patron's line of sight if he looked straight ahead): "Yes, they are right behind me. We have a little more than 13,000."
Patron: "Oh, dat's dem right dere?"
Me: "Yes, sir."
Patron: "Can I look at 'em."
Me: "Sure, you can look at all of them if you would like and even check most of them out if you find some you want to take home."
It was as if this guy had never heard of a library and its primary purpose before, it was very odd.
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My daughters 1st grade teacher told me that she doesnt know how to use a card catalog to find book in the library, she said she uses google. Keep in mind I live a rural area known for having very good schools.
Times have just changed I guess.
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Times have just changed I guess.
Been so long since I;ve used the card catalog, I'm not sure I'd remember how it worked. 
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