What's the stupidest thing anybody has said to you?
 

I had somebody stop me in the street today and ask me if it was raining?

Of course it was f*****g raining! The things that kinda gave it away were umbrellas and puddles and the fact I was getting wet etc... I've been trying to figure that one out all afternoon and haven't managed it yet. :shrug:

I once had somebody ask me in a store where they could get a replacement watch battery and i said "The jewellers next door will probably sell them" to which the moron replied "Oh, right.. Where's that then?" :shocked: :shocked:

I asked for a £10 voucher to top up my mobile phone last week and was told "that will just be £10 pounds" by the assistant.. I know this... Why was I being told this????

All these moronic people and none of them work for the Bush administration... What a missed opportunity.. :D

Dude, you have just described the bane of my waking existence. I feel like people say stupid **** to me all the time. It happens most around here with people trying to hit on/start convo with me, but that payment thing happens to. And god, can i just say how lame it is when people say "hot enough/cold enough/rainy enough for ya" :mad:
today, just as i was blading back from the store, a guy walking up my hill was all "boy, you sure do be skatin'...I like the way you skate, girl(insert lascivious expression and tone of voice)" This happens to me a lot. or just "heeeeeey...alright, how YOU doin'?" god, if i could post about something stupid someone has said to me daily, i would have something EVERY DAY.
*sigh*
and don't even get me started about my boss..."so, I need you to order paper...do you understand what i'm saying?" (insert taking five minutes to finish the sentence)
*sigh*
Amber

sounds right to me
 

Tell me about it.. I manage a retail store and all my friends really don't know why I do it because they don't understand how I put up with answering moronic questions all day. To be honest I don't know why I still do it myself...

The best idiotic questions I get every single day are :

"How much is this?"

when they actually POINT at the price ticket?!?!?! :eek: :shocked: :confused:

and

"Have you got this one in stock?"

When they are looking AT one in stock on the shelf!!!

Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!!! Please let me escape the bane of my existence!!!

Rollerblades are cool by the way but they just wouldn't work in UK winters, especially with the amount of holes in our sidewalks (plus the amount of "holes" that walk on them too :D )

Yep, i totally feel for you, dude. Retail must be the worst. I used to work in fast food, that is bad, too.
Yes, i can't use the blades at all when it rains, and fall is hard cause of all the **** on the ground. But, i swear, Oakland sidewalks are THE WORST! it has made me an expert rollerblader. Not to mention cars that don't stop behind the line....it's like a fun obstacle course. But yeah, in london, with all the rain and whatnot...difficult. I like to go out and blade at night, when there is no one on the streets...very zen... :wavey: :D
God, i'm just thinking about your examples, and that is waaaaaay lame. I would be rolling my eyes, constantly :laugh: Course, i am about the least patient person in the world, but still! I would've grabbed the sweater, looked very obviously at the pricetag, and said "let's see...this tag says it is 34.95, so, IT'S 34.95!!!" hehehehe.

Ahh, I sense you read a previous post of mine on another thread maybe? :nod:

Yeah, I smile on the outside yet get these twisted visions of what I'd like to be saying or doing to the person saying these things...

I do try and vary my mental replies, somedays I might visualise saying "You don't have the mental capacity to even contemplate buying this so please do me a favour, put your money away and just go home, now..." or other days I'll nod and smile when somebody is giving me grief over something I haven't any control over yet they will blame me and I'll be visualising something nasty happening to them with a gardening tool, a few rather exotic fruits and some vaseline :laugh: :blob1: :lol: all depends on my mood I guess...

Bwahahahaha! :laugh: :lol:
at least you're able to hide your feelings... :D
and, no, i don't remember the past post you were talking about. i just said that cause, well, it IS very zen :shrug:

Cool, I replied to a Buddhism thread a couple of weeks back and mentioned Zen Buddhism and the Japanese Samurai, just thought somebody might have actually read it!!

(as I write this itunes has just selected Black Magic Woman from the Boston Tea Party at random and put a big :D on my face)

Do you have ten hours to read? -_- Yesterday was a perfect example of stupidity at it's finest. People don't want to listen. This happens to me at least 20 times a day...

"Does Tommy have any openings today for a blowdry?"

"The only opening he has is at 2:00"

"Does he have one around 12?"

"No. He only has one opening at 2:00"

"Well. He always fits me in. I've been coming here for years and have spent A LOT of money..."

Okay lady. Do you know how many times i've heard that line? Your hair, your nails, not the end of the world. Perhaps if you planned better, you would have made an appointment earlier so you could get in at a specific time. You know what's tragic? Some of these people have dropped 30,000 in the past year and they? are ugly as sin. You'd think coming to a salon and day spa 3 times a week, you'd look good. Hono. Not the case.

I used to work in retail and I got some ridiculous questions and comments all the time. I too love the "how much does this cost?" And the best was always when people would come to the counter, rattle off a bunch of products they needed and stand there and expect me to go and fetch said products for them. I'm not your human shopping cart, thanks.

oh, i read that. just as i came back from the store, "Edge of Seventeen" started :D
congrats to both of us! :laugh:

Excellent Example! :thumbsup:
doesn't this thread seem like it could go on and on? :D

"Are these all the ones you have?"

"Erm, no, actually we keep a whole store full of other stock in the back but when we hear you are in town we take it all off display.... :rolleyes: " I wish...... :D

A friend of mine works on a Carnival cruise ship, one of the best ones he got was "Do the crew stay on board or do they go home at night?" :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

He actually couldn't resist and replied "No they fly us off on helicopters at midnight and we fly back to the ship at sea for about 6am...."

The reply he got back was "wow, it must cost a lot to do that I guess" :eek: :eek: :eek:

Before the era of cell phones, I'd get phone calls at home and the person would ask: "Are you there?" or "Where are you at?"

Of course, I've said some stupid things, too:

Pizza place: Pick-up or delivery?
Me: Yeah.
Pizza place: Pick up OR delivery??
Me: I said yeah.
:o :rolleyes:

Well this one is a stupid as it gets:

"Oh my you're ALIVE!"- said to me from a medical recptionist when I went to pick-up my files!?

Reply: "yeah I guess so, sure looks like it."

The constant "This is a GREAT fake ID!"

In retail

"Do you think you can dig through your change drawer and give me the new Indiana quarter?"

"What do you mean you don't have it, you're just hiding it from me!"

:laugh: :lol:
Bwah! you're killin me, dude!

"It's really important you take out life insurance before you die"

No ****.... I was going to wait until after I had shuffled off... :rolleyes:

"guess who I bumped into today?"

Erm, well, I've got a six billion to one chance of getting it right haven't I?

Maybe I'm just cynical... I dunno :shrug:

I was at McDonalds once and heard somebody ask for "A Big Mac, but without the lettuce, mayo, pickle and onion"

"So you want a cheeseburger?" the assistant replied...........

"erm, well yes" was the answer... :confused:

This wasn't said to me, but to a girl in my film class as we were leaving school.

"Hey gurl, do you work at Subway?"
(girl) "What? no.."
"Cause you sho give me a foot-long, heh heh."

:shrug:
Some people are just disgusting.

My personal favorite when at work is "how much does that cost?"
-Read the sign/tag ya dumb bitch!

Not said directly to me...
 

but early this year as we shopped at a small knick-knack store the cute blonde clerk asked the other clerk the following question:

"Halloween? Isnt that celebrated in September or October?"

She wasnt not a foreigner, So I figured she MUST not get out into the world much...

Brian j.

Which life insurance company is it that always advertises on TV with the line "We pay cash if you die and cash if you don't." :rolleyes: That's a classic.

By the way..Brian...your signature is absolutely f**king hilarious! I just burst out laughing. :thumbsup:

And the stupidest thing that anyone's ever said to me happened last week. On the EVE of the U.S. election, I was on the phone to someone (Madformac you know him - he almost killed you trying to climb over your head to get Lindsey's signature) who never fails to surprise me with just how much he can stretch the limits of the word "CLUELESS":

I was just trying to make small talk and I said "Do you think John Kerry will win it?"

To which he replied: "Who?"

I assumed he didn't hear me clearly so I said: "John Kerry."

He replied: "Oh....yea................Sorry........who...??"

I replied: "John Kerry..?? You know the presidential candidate for the Democrats??"

He replied: "Ooooh! Right......yea sorry!"

So I repeated: "So do you think he'll win?"

He said: "Win what??"

(This conversation took place last Tuesday night.)

:rolleyes::rolleyes::shocked:

ah yes - stupid statements....

Well since moving to Rochester I have had MORE comments about weather...as if I've been living on the sun for the past 23 years....yes, I've seen snow before people....but it's simple things too...

The SLIGHTEST change, and I mean the slightest change in weather brings this one idiot guy at work in asking,

"So - whaddya think of THIS weather hehe..."

To I finally broke down, "OK - we HAVE rain and clouds in New Mexico...this is nothing new...and yes, I"ve actually SEEN snow..." gaaa...I'm sick of it....

Let's see...I just hate when people state the obvious...like I was eating my lunch and reading the newspaper last week and the same guy who makes weather statements came in, "oh you're reading the newspaper huh?"

wtf? I didn't even answer- I just ignored him....to which he then asked, "oh what's for lunch? " Oh ya mean besides this large slice of pizza sitting in front of me??

I'm SURe I get more stupid questions/statements, but usually I try to ignore them or just put them out of my mind :)

Rotflmao!!!!!!
 

Lol!
 

I've worked in retail pharmacy since 1998 and everyday someone says something stupid to me...The general public is not that bright, especially when it comes to the local pharmacy. Just a few of my favorite stupid lines:

Me (answering phone): Cub Pharmacy West, how may I help you?
Customer: Yeah, pharmacy please.
Me: This is the pharmacy. That's why I said Cub Pharmacy West.
Customer: Oh...

Me (answering phone): Cub Pharmacy West, how may I help you?
Customer: Yes, I have a prescription I'd like to get refilled.
Me: OK, do you have the prescription number?
Customer: Yes, it's 345-5066
Me: Ma'am, that's the pharmacy phone number.
Customer: Oh...are you sure?
Me: I've worked here for 6.5 years, I'm sure of it.

Me (ringing a customer up at the register): OK, your total is $20.00
Customer: $20 even?
Me (thinking to myself): Yes, that's why I said $20.00 in the first place!

Once I was out on the floor putting our OTC order away (over-the-counter products like cough medicine) and some guy came up to me and asked if I worked at the store. Gee, I was wearing a white smock, a huge-ass name tag and I WAS STOCKING THE SHELVES! :rolleyes: What do you think? I've always wanted to say, "No, I don't work here. I just like to come in and help out every now and then."

Most pharmacies have automated phone systems with a voice recording where patients can call in prescriptions. Well, one day I had an older lady call in about her prescriptions, just as I started my shift. She was upset because the person she was talking to on the phone kept hanging up when she tried to give her prescription numbers. I asked if she knew the person's name and she didn't know, except that it was a female and she was extremely rude and wanted to make a complaint about her. Knowing that I was the only female there (and this was my first phone call of the day) I had to break it to her that it was the automated voice recording, not an actual person that she was mad at :lol: The poor thing was so confused! I had to break it down for her...

I have so many other stories that I could probably write a book on it. I also want to do a show like E.R. on how a pharmacy works. It would be called "Rx" :laugh: It'd only be about 10 episodes, but at least people would begin to understand the crap we put up with and the difference between pharmacists and technicians.

I have an anniversary edition Barbie. When it was new this guy asked me about it and I said it was a 30th anniversary Barbie. He said, "Oh that's pretty old then." I had to be diplomatic and not laugh at him but it was HARD! :laugh: :lol: :laugh:

Here's todays special...
 

I had another one this morning.........

We open the store at 9am... I know this because on the front doors the opening times are displayed in nice bright white LARGE letters and numbers.....

Anyway, not for the first time, at about 8:40am some moron tries to open the locked door.. The window shutters are down and the door is locked.. Now it's locked... He knows its locked because when he pulls it, it's... shut... It will not open.... So he pulls it again, and again, and yet again... As if by continuing to pull it the lock will release, he will walk in and find several assistants just waiting eagerly to serve him.. :rolleyes:

So I look out and he's just standing there.. He sees me, gestures and knocks on the door.. So I go over and he shouts through a locked door....

"Are you open?" :shrug: :confused: :shrug: :confused: :shrug:

Now how the hell do you reply to that?

How much of a moronic fool do you have to be to say something so mindlessly stupid as that?

I really don't have much hope for the human race... :(

:laugh: Same thing has happend to me! We have a large gate that we pull around the pharmacy when we're closed (as we are located inside a grocery store). I've had numerous incidents where the gates are pulled, lights off and the staff is bundled up in coats, ready to go home and some idiot walks up and asks if we're closed. :rolleyes: No, we're really open. It's just that we're going on a long lunch break and will be back at 9 a.m. tomorrow...the sad thing is that these people are reproducing! :eek:

A co-worker just grabbed the yellow pages, looked at me and said, "what do you call it when you need your car repaired."

-_-

It's been a looong day. :(

Damn! You beat me to it...as I was reading through this thread, it took all the way until post #26 before somebody quoted Engvall. I was ready after just about every post. :D

the other night I was shoping with these guys (my first mistake ;) ) and there was this big sale on men's sweaters...but they were way too big for me and I said, 'Urg - stupid man sweaters..."

So one of the guys with me said, 'what's the difference between man sweaters and regular sweaters..." :shrug: I just said, "that wasn't obvious from the title? MAN sweaters....men wear them...they are made for men..." dumb ass

Tee hee!
 

oh god.... i'm a waitress... you'd never believe some of the stupid people i encounter and the things that they say....

last night-

Me: And what would you like, sir?
Stupid guy: i don't know, how about just a cheeseburger
Me: ok and what kind of cheese would you like?
Stupid guy: no cheese
Me: uh, you want a cheeseburger no cheese?
Stupid guy: yeah
Me: so you want a hamburger?
Stupid guy: ok

or the night before last-

Stupid Guy: what's this? (pointing to item on the menu) a tuna sandwich?
Me: yes sir
Stupid guy: like a tuna steak?
Me: no, like tuna salad
Stupid guy: no i don't want a salad i'm talking about the sandwich
Me: yes, it's a sandwich made of tuna salad
Stupid guy: not a tuna steak?
Me: no, we don't have tuna steaks
Stupid guy: how do you mean it's a tuna salad?
Me: (very annoyed at this point) you know, you open a can, dump the tuna out and mix it with mayo and other things?
Stupid guy: (looking very confused) well i'd like a tuna steak
Me: i'm sorry we don't have those (didn't i just say that?)
Stupid guy: I'd like a turkeyburger cooked medium, please
Me: (not believing what i just heard) I beg your pardon?
Stupid guy: TURKEY BURGER MEDIUM!!
Me: I'm sorry sir but all poultry is cooked well done... otherwise you could get very sick.
Stupid guy: oh.


seriously.... i hope that man doesn't cook for himself at home and go "hmmm i'd like my chicken breast medium rare tonight" who does NOT know that poultry must be cooked well done?

oh oh oh.... or how about this one.... dude comes in and says his son's going to be meeting him in a few minutes... it's late, we're a bar only after 9 pm and everyone in the building must be 21 or over... so i tell this to the guy and ask how old his son is and he goes "uhh about 21?" ABOUT 21? i laugh and go "ok when he gets here i'll see his id" and he throws a fit and goes "god can't a guy just have some dinner?" so he calls his kid and then tells me proudly "my son's on his way with his id" i'm thinking "oh riiiiiight... let's see this fake" i'm pretty confident in my ability to spot fake ids so i laugh it off and wait for the kid to show up... he proudly gives me an id and the very first security feature that i look for is incorrect so i laugh and go skipping across the restaurant to the manager on duty so he can confiscate the id and kick them out...

seriously though... about 21? your parents should know your age... make sure they know what your fake id says when you go out with them...

Just yesterday my cousin, who I thought had some measure of intelligence, burst out with this gem:

"I voted for Bush, because, you know, with the war and everything we shouldn't change presidents."

Me: :shocked: "Are you f*ckin kidding me?!"

What a dumbass.

:laugh: :lol: :laugh:
isn't food service GREAT? :rolleyes: well, the tips are usually good... :wavey:

Stating Obvious Also Annoys Me
 

During the Sox/Yankees playoffs I was out with my roommate watching game 7. This guy goes, "So you girls like baseball?" I just gave him a look like, "Well, duh." :eek:

hate that so much. "so, reading a book, huh?" "so, skating, huh?" "It sure is hot/cold out, huh?" :mad: :rolleyes:

So Amber, I guess you post on this site huh?



:lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol: :lol: :laugh:
bastard!

Guess you think I'm a bastard huh?


:laugh: :lol: :laugh: :lol:

Actually it's not just guys that do it........ Girls do it too... When they really try to seem interested in something they don't understand (come on admit it!) that we do. Like obsessions with cars, engines and all that jazz.

"Oh that's really interesting.. BUT why don't we do this instead......"

:D :D ;)