Last time I was at Lowe's, one of the things I needed was a set of vinyl miniblinds cut to an odd size. I gave the package to the woman running the cutter and told her I needed them cut to 32 3/8" and she said, "Okay, is that an inside mount?"

I said, "Yes, that's the exact width I need them. I need to replace a set that is on that window now... if you cut this one to 32 3/8" I can slide it right into the mounts that are there.

She cut it, I thanked her, went through checkout with all my stuff, and went home.

I was getting them out of the box and decided to put a tape measure to them... a tape measure that I had in my pocket while at Lowe's.

They were exactly 32 3/4" soooooo... I'm an idiot, too... for not checking them before I left Lowe's.

I hate drive-thru windows at fast food places. I go inside and carry the items out.

Just the other night I stopped at a McD's to get some fries to go with supper.I told the young girl my order, 3 small choc. shakes, and 3 small fries.........to go.


She looked at me funny and said" that's wierd". "Which part is weird?" I asked.

"Our drive up window isn't broken, is it?"

I then briefly explained how much I do not drive-thru windows.

I needed to buy 15 feet of large gauge wire at the local autosupply store.
I asked the middle aged female clerk how to measure wire.
She proudly announced that the floor tiles were 12" squares, and then proceeded to pull the wire diagonally across the tiles. I tried, I really did try, to explain that the diagonal was more than 12". She actually said they had training in this. So as I left with my 17feet of wire I took a piece of string and showed her how the diagonal was longer. She tried it 4 or 5 times on different tiles. Never did understand. I buy wire there a lot now. (Not really, never needed ignition cable again.)
Gary

They must be programed...
 

At Home Depot, I spend 15 minutes explaining that the dimension I was giving her was exact dimension that I wanted and could not careless about their inside/outside mount explanation...

Same thing for me. No matter how many times I said "exact measurement", she continued to ask "inside or outside mount" and explain it like this --"if it's an inside ,mount we remove an additional 1/8" per side so it fits". I finally gave up, said outside mount and got my blind at the measurement I provided.

Subway purchase: $8.15. I give her a ten. Change back? $8.15.

Secretary: Sold 3'x3' piece of screening to a customer. Charged them for 3 square feet. Unable to understand the difference between 'three feet square' and 'three square feet'.

Same person: Ships two packages to a customer. Labels box #1 '1 of 2'. Labels box #2 '1 of 2'. I ask her 'shouldn't the second box be '2 of 2?'. She says 'duh, it's only one box'.

What really gets me is like above, when really stupid people think that I am stupid because they are too thick to understand. That is when you need to simply walk away.

I went to Taco Bell and the "manager" is on the phone and everyone else is standing around looking at each other. The computer was down so there was no way to take an order, prepare food or make change. The workers had taken the "initiative" to close down the drive thru so all those customers were parking their cars and walking in. I waited politely for a few minutes and then asked the "manager" if they were shut down completely. Yes the computer is down. I walked out.

"What really gets me is like above, when really stupid people think that I am stupid because they are too thick to understand. That is when you need to simply walk away"

Yes ! That really really gets to me and I let myself get sucked in too often.

Must remember that one must 'never argue with an idiot, as they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with their experience' (is that an idiom ?)

Serenity now.

Happened to me: I don't have long distance on my home land-line phone, since I use my cell phone for out-of-state calls. But every couple of months, I'd get ATT long distance automatically added to my phone line. I'd deactivate, and it would be reactivated again. The problem was a lack of communication between ATT (long distance carrier) and Verizon (local carrier).

The last time I had to square this away was about an hour call. The tech would bounce me back and forth between various departments, since the tech could not authorize the removal of long distance as well as the refunds which were owed me.

Finally, she got approval. As she was waiting for the verification of the removal of my long distance service, she asked, (obviously from a script) "Sir, while we wait, may I ask you if you are interested in adding ATT long distance service to your land line?" I responded, "Miss, I would like for you to consider what we've been trying to accomplsih during the past 60 minutes. After contemplating our efforts here, kindly THINK about the question you just asked me, and see if you can answer it yourself." She admitted that it was a rather absurd question she asked.
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Once my Credit Card was scammed, and my credit card company called me, asking if I was so-and-so, and if I could verify who I am because there was fraudulent activity on my card. I responded, "No. I cannot confirm anything with you, because you called me, and how do I know that YOU aren't trying to scam me?" (I ended up respectfully ending the call and stating that I will be calling the number on the back of my credit card statement to verify that I've been scammed.)
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-Z-man.

Just found another:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/522774-forum-alive-if-yes-please-remove-topic-my-account.html

Do people really have the time to just mess with forums? Jeez, get a job douchenozzle!!

Ok, that thread is now invalid. What happened?:eek:

No, we're talking about idiots here not douche bags.

About 7 years ago at a fast food drive thru, I place my order and pull up to the first window and pay. I pull up to the second window to get my food. The girl I just gave my money to meets me at the second window and tries to charge me again. I tell her "I just paid you 5 seconds ago" and she denies it and starts arguing with me. Manager steps in because at this point I am livid and apologizes and I get my meal for free.
Another time, a coworker and I go out for fast food. We only get a half hour for lunch so we usually go inside to place our order because most times it is faster than the drive thru. The girl is filling our bags and my friend notices her putting a small fry in his bag. He tells her that he ordered a large fry. She turns around and grabs a large fry container and dumps the small fries into it and hands it to him. I about pissed my pants I was laughing so hard.

I ran into a number of internet threads with people stating that 2011 would be the start of the new decade, because there was no ''year zero''

I spent a little time explaining that zero fell at midnight, between Dec 31 and Jan 1, between the year 1 BCE and 1 CE. It was interesting to be told ''Well that's one perspective.'' ...

A guy sits next to me and says to the bartender, "What time is happy hour - oh, I see the sign - 2 til 10 everyday. Is that like today?"

How about retail store owner's sign on door:
"Back in 15 minutes" I didn't know what time they had left
or "Closed today and tomorrow"
the latest "will be back at the end of the week" I went there three weekend's and the sign was still there.

i work for the FAA at the control tower, not an air traffic controller, im an electronics tech. anyway, security is always a big issue and our boss is a panic manager. he came down and told us not to let anyone through the gate that he did not know. so of course someone had to ask, how do we know who you know? he did not get it and got mad when asked again, then stormed back upstairs.

You were the idiots in the story, both of you. Why is this not surprising to most of us?

we had a guy like that at work. he got mad at me one day, surprise surprise, he said, " you know what this is"? and held up both hands and gave me the double one finger salute. then said "its 8 of these. then he held up both hands with 8 fingers waving. i tried to explain that he had it backwords, but he just got madder.

it was between me and 2 other guys in the shop as to who was at the top of his kill list. paul was at the top when he said a monkey could do his job. then i think i went back the top when i told him he was too stupid to do my job but i could do his. sometimes i miss ole dave. you had to be carefull, you would get sucked into "dave's world"