Is it the teachers, or has "native intelligence" gone away?....
I went to McDonald's. I looked at the menu and saw that you
could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked
for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have a 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.
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
asked for a credit card number, so she's 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 unlocker. 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 he 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 him. With that, the intern took his
last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier
and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.
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.
Sign in a gas station: Coke -- 49 cents. Two for a dollar.
Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, 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.