Yes folks - the following are real people living in real places in our country.  Be careful out there.  How do they survive?

    At 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.
 

My thoughts about this:

What kind of a fruit do you have to be to not realize that a half-dozen is six?

    The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what happened a couple of months ago. I was checking out at the
local Foodland 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 as to what had just happened.
 

My thoughts about this:

Ok, this poor young girl needs some serious mental examination.  You would think that if you are working at a grocery
store, you would actually be able to figure out what that "divider" thing is.  I mean, I knew what it was when I was 3 years
old!!!

    A lady 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."

My thoughts about this:

Whoa, hey now, has this woman gone a little loopy?  Wow, what kind of education did she get?  Tiny tots pre-school?

    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."
 

My thoughts about this:

Ok now, if you are going to drive a car, shouldn't you be able to unlock a door?  Ugh, the people in this world...

    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 copier machine paper," 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.

My thoughts about this:

I don't think I could safely say anything about this one without sayin' some mean stuff about this woman.  So I think I better
just stop now.

    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.

My thoughts about this:

Ummm, what does this guy think his motor home is?  A 747?  Wow, what a fruit.

Once again I ask you, you do these people survive???