GlenBose Loc: NE Florida, formerly Limerick, PA

My daughter and I went through the McDonald's driveway window and I gave the cashier a $5 bill.
Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her 25c.
She said, 'you gave me too much money.'
I said, 'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar back.'
She sighed and went to get the manager who asked me to repeat my request.
I did so, and he handed me back the 25c, and said 'We're sorry but we don’t do that kind of thing.'
The cashier then proceeded to give me back 75 cents in change.
Do not confuse the people at MacD's.

We had to have the garage door repaired. The repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener.
I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.
He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower.'
I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.'
We haven't used that repairman since...

I live in a semi rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local city council office to request the removal of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road.
The reason: 'Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.'

IDIOT SIGHTING IN FOOD SERVICE.
My daughter went to a Mexican fast food and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.'
He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg lettuce.

I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, 'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?'
To which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?'
He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask.'

The pedestrian light on the corner beeps when it's safe to cross the street.
I was crossing with an 'intellectually challenged' co-worker of mine.
She asked if I knew what the beeper was for.
I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red.
Appalled, she responded, 'what on earth are blind people doing driving?!'
She is a government employee.....

When my husband and I arrived at a car dealership to pick up our car after a
service, we were told the keys had been locked in it.
We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side door.
As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked.
‘Hey,' I announced to the technician, 'its open!'
His reply, 'I know. I already did that side.'

STAY ALERT!
They walk among us, they breed, and they vote…....

JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii

d2b2 Loc: Catonsville, Maryland, USA

This is NOT what I needed, first thing in the morning. But thank you!

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Fine job!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

There are lots of funny stories like this floating around the Internet, but most of them are pure imagination.

I will tell you two funny - true - stories.

My wife and a friend were drinking wine coolers one summer. When the friend's husband and I returned, the two women were acting silly. After all, they had polished off a six-pack of wine coolers. I looked at what they were drinking - "Non Alcoholic." The power of suggestion.

My wife and a friend were shopping. As they went back to the car, the friend was not able to unlock the car door with the remote - dead battery in the remote. "Oh, great! Now what are we going to do? The remote is dead, and I can't open the door" "How about using the key?" my wife suggested.

DJ Mills Loc: Idaho

I recently purchased an item priced under $10 and paid with a combination of Susan Anthony dollars and Kennedy half dollars. It took the clerk LONG time to count the cash.
DJM

Quinn 4

Welcome to America of the 21th century.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Lest we forget the remnants of the twentieth.

GlenBose Loc: NE Florida, formerly Limerick, PA

[quote=jerryc41]There are lots of funny stories like this floating around the Internet, but most of them are pure imagination.

I will tell you two funny - true - stories.

Here's one for you jerryc41
Years (and years) ago, when credit cards were just hitting the scene, I was in a Sears store in Jenkintown, PA. (an upscale neighborhood) around the Christmas holidays. I had picked up a tool and walked to the cashiers desk. There was a small line and when I got to the cashier I lay down my purchase and cash dollars. She was still staring me in the face and asked, "Do you have identification, sir?" She looked down and saw the bills, hung her head and said, "Sorry, sir, the customers here are all using credit cards and I get mixed up when people actually pay for their purchase!"
We both had a chuckle.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

Its not just in the US.....We followed you in treating 'under 25's' as young people rather than adults. (Paid less)As a result those between 16 and 18 are treated as small children and generally cannot find any work experience at all. Few people get a delivered newspaper or milk etc.

I was peeling potatoes at a hotel aged 13, cooking bar meals at 16 and treated as an adult.....ie you worked as hard as everyone else. This whole culture has dissapeared. People who leave school now expect to be treated like a child and told 'what to do and when to do it'. They get paid to text their mates but not to think for themselves. Ask them to pick up a cloth and wipe down anything and you get told - 'not my job'.'Not their job' covers so much....it is hard to understand 'what their job...actually is.

Yes they vote, have kids and even die for their country - but not get paid as an adult!

its a sad world

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

You all may think these stories are pure imagination, but as a retired high school teacher from 1973 to 2006, I'm saying they are all true. I have experienced some form of all of them except the airport.

I have not been on a plane since 1994, so I have no direct experience of the post 9-11 insanity. But a cousin told me he flew from Pittsburgh to New York to London to Italy back to London to New York where an "official" would not let him keep his favorite cigarette lighter. Go figure.

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

There is a freeway rest stop in western MD, which is called (or used to be...) the "William Donald Schaffer Rest area for the Blind". Schaffer was a past state governor. The interesting thing is, the whole thing is located *between* the eastern and western carriageways, so it is impossible to reach if you are not in a vehicle... I always thought this was a strange concept.

Like putting braille instructions on an ATM machine... My mother was blind, and I explained that she could withdraw money herself at the machine outside our local bank. Apart from not knowing what an ATM was at that time, her response was "how could I find the machine...?"

Sometimes people do things for PC reasons, without thinking the matter through!

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

They also breath & waste oxygen.

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

I'm not sure how true it is, but it has been thought of.

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Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

Not sure how true this is, but it has been considered in America. Where else??

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