Idiot Sightings!!

[farseerlum]

Originally posted by Einion
Was tootling around in one of the local Tescos a few weeks back, saw a good two-for-one promotion on Australian Eucalyptus honey which is a no-brainer as far as I\'m concerned so I went for it.

Idly checking my receipt after paying (it\'s not that I don\'t trust them ) I saw the deduction hadn\'t been made so I had to head over to the Customer Service desk.

After the inevitable long wait the girl behind the counter scans the barcode, doesn\'t see the promotion listed in the computer\'s memory so she has to go and check the shelf herself. Comes back a few minutes later, hits a few keys and then pays me back the difference, right? Well actually she handed me back the full price of both bottles of honey, which I also had; and I thought I was mathematically challenged!

Einion

don\'t know which part of the world your in mate. but in australia if your scanned wrong many shops policy is to just give you the thing free. at the very least it\'s law to refund you the difference. since you paid 1 bottle too many you would have been refunded what you paid extra then been refunded the difference, 1 bottle. viola free honey!!

my wife got $80 worth of free gear shopping the other week and only had to pay $.05 for each item. stupid clerk just kept scanning up the 5 cent items without realising.

 

[Arkzein]

I must admit I tend to be the idiot, and most folk who know me just laugh it off though I\'ve annoyed people before thinking I was taking the pish. I salute those of use who bumble through life!

Out for a drink a while back and asked an old firend\'s fiance how they met, looked at me a bit oddly, apparently back in my school days we\'d shared classes for four years and they\'d been going out even then.

Or when DST changed over, I couldn\'t figure out how to reset my watch so it was always an hour fast. I missed a few meetings with folks at Uni and just blamed it, took a few days to realise I was adding an hour rather than taking it away. (Even though I had it as \"fast\" in my head)

Rushed out of the shower to answer the phone the other day and there was someone at the door just as I picked it up. Of course too much for me to process at once and I opened it stark bollock naked.

Worked in an accounts department inputting data into a computer over the summer, near the end I realised I\'d been making a mistake with a couple of codes and had been transposing them (literally thousands), the year before than I\'d done something almost identical with the post, neither were ever noticed.

On the same note a woman there, who was recently married, left and we needed information on her computer (she just quit one day so there was no crossover period). A couple of clicks and we come upon hundreds of rather.. explicit emails and letters to a professor in Alberta, Canada who she spent most days chatting to back and forth, bitching about us all a lot to boot! Not entirely smart to leave them there.

 

[Torn blue sky]

Originally posted by Arkzein
I must admit I tend to be the idiot, and most folk who know me just laugh it off though I\'ve annoyed people before thinking I was taking the pish. I salute those of use who bumble through life!

Out for a drink a while back and asked an old firend\'s fiance how they met, looked at me a bit oddly, apparently back in my school days we\'d shared classes for four years and they\'d been going out even then.

Or when DST changed over, I couldn\'t figure out how to reset my watch so it was always an hour fast. I missed a few meetings with folks at Uni and just blamed it, took a few days to realise I was adding an hour rather than taking it away. (Even though I had it as \"fast\" in my head)

Rushed out of the shower to answer the phone the other day and there was someone at the door just as I picked it up. Of course too much for me to process at once and I opened it stark bollock naked.

Worked in an accounts department inputting data into a computer over the summer, near the end I realised I\'d been making a mistake with a couple of codes and had been transposing them (literally thousands), the year before than I\'d done something almost identical with the post, neither were ever noticed.

On the same note a woman there, who was recently married, left and we needed information on her computer (she just quit one day so there was no crossover period). A couple of clicks and we come upon hundreds of rather.. explicit emails and letters to a professor in Alberta, Canada who she spent most days chatting to back and forth, bitching about us all a lot to boot! Not entirely smart to leave them there.

I have to admit I open the door ass nekid once, don\'t ask me WHY but I was sure I was wearing a towel...

\"Pish\" is a fantastic word, it doesn\'t get used enough lol

 

[Ebonbuddha]

It’s hard to make fun of someone’s intellect with that many spelling mistakes in the message.

Originally posted by krokar
Man some old ladies are either very stupid or as we all feared.... evil!

i went to the shop (was with 2 of my friends) and bought about £3.50\'s worth of munch so i handed her a £5 note.... she then said that’s £3.50 please and i thought.... hang on
so i reminded her i gave her a £5, she then started having a argument with me and started yelling and screaming, i was laid back the hole time (my friends *should be ‘were’* laughing their ass\'s off at *should be ‘in’* the doorway) she then shouted \" get out of my shop\" worried she was gonna transform into satarn i just walked out....

thought to myself she must be on her luna then i realised.... shes like 90 so to this day im puzzled if shes just evil or losing it
:S

 

[JesterzUSMC]

If I\'d known we were going to be allowing \"Grammar Nazi\" \'s in I\'d be busy correcting 80% of the posts.
Do you not have any idiot sightings to report?
You know if the person to the left or right of you isn\'t one, you may be it.

 

[krokar]

lol its a quik post not a formal letter

 

[Bill]

Idiot sighting! lol

 

[JesterzUSMC]

LMAOlollollollol
See, they\'re everywhere!

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by fieldarchy
Is it just me or do many people in grocery stores not seem to understand that when they push a cart (or even baby stroller) they have an extension of themselves protruding a couple of feet ahead? They always seem so surprised when they come barreling out of an aisle to see that they almost hit me. Slow down, it\'s not a race, the food will still be there, now don\'t kill me in the process!!!

lol

Originally posted by supervike
A lady I work with saw an classified ad in the paper for a Free Standing Stove.

She drug her husband along to the home, and upon seeing the stove, loved it. After some effort they finally got it loaded up in the truck and were about to leave when the stove owner says....

\"Uh, you forgot to pay me.\"

\"The ad says it was FREE!\" my lady friend says.

The husband had to unload the whole thing in extreme embarrassment....

Brilliant, a real-world example of the value of proper punctuation!

Originally posted by JesterzUSMC
If I\'d known we were going to be allowing \"Grammar Nazi\" \'s in I\'d be busy correcting 80% of the posts.

Context is everything.

But Ebonbuddha, sorry, you missed a few

Originally posted by JesterzUSMC
Do you not have any idiot sightings to report?
You know if the person to the left or right of you isn\'t one, you may be it.

Oi, uncalled for.

Einion

 

[JesterzUSMC]

What?!
If someone assumes something is meant insultingly, it does not make the insult intentional.
Thereby, leaving me Faultless!
I didn\'t come right out and call him and idiot!

 

[Friar]

here\'s a gem of a fella always the sharpest tack in the lot that has to go making the rest of us look utterly brilliant.

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[Torn blue sky]

LMFAO!!!

What a Moran!

 

[DrEvilmonki]

Could have been worse, he could have told us to get a Brian!

 

[Naukhel]

Dec. 23.
Downtown Toronto.
My wife and I were walking up Yonge Street, getting our last-minute
Christmas shopping done.

We passed a small trio of young-ish people. Two guys and a girl. One of
the guys and the girl, very obviously a young couple. He, white, she not.
And there\'s a guy about 30 feet behind them, yelling about how it\'s people like
him (the guy arm-in-arm with the girl) that are ruining our country, hooking up with
immigrants....

The kicker?
The guy ranting about how the immigrants are ruining our country
was very obviously hispanic.

My wife\'s a british immigrant, on top of that.

I felt like giving the guy some Christmas punch.

 

[Legacy Account]

I saw Jay Kay out of Jamiroquai in St Pancras station a few weeks back.

Does that count?

 

[Roger Bunting]

Yes, that certainly counts.

 

[rextalon]

Originally posted by skeeve
another one

Couple of days ago I opened my mail-box and found an e-mail from some our local guy that was over 1 Mb big. I oppened it thinking it is something important.... it was a 25 words long Christmas party announcement that was embedded into 1 Mb uncompressed .jpg file.
In addition to that it was a mass e-mail that went to ~250 people.

I\'m in the military. I get two or three emails like this A DAY!!!
The one for the squadron Christmas party went out to over 500 people and included 3 different file types of the same exact directions. It was a 9MB email.

We get one about once a week telling us of a free meal or some party that we are required to attend... two hours ago... Seriously, the email will hit our inbox at 1400, but the party was at 1200.


Another example of idiocy. My wife and I were making our way down a sidewalk toward our car. Beside us a man and woman walk out of a door. The man turns to the woman holding something in his hand and says, \"Hey, wanna smell something really bad?\" Me and my wife cracked up! I mean, what person in their right mind would say \"Yea sure, and while you\'re at it, poke me in the eye!\"

 

[Shawn R. L.]

I will not call this an idiot sighting, cause I know the guy and his vocabulary just isnt up to speed.

Me and another fellow are discussing a piece of terrain that I\'m working on and different motifs for that piece. I commented something about a Baroque motif at which point another fellow pipe\'s up and says: \"No, it aint broke\". Me and the first guy just looked at each other and surprisingly kept it together.lol

 

[JesterzUSMC]

The bean counters at Lizcam\'s work!
\'Nuf Said

 

[Ebonbuddha]

Well I guess fauk you (and certain others) is in order. Sorry I didn\'t get the joke. But when you just checked four e-mails with the same style of writing, you get pretty annoyed.

And don\'t call someone who cares about that kind of stuff a nazi.

Originally posted by JesterzUSMC
What?!
If someone assumes something is meant insultingly, it does not make the insult intentional.
Thereby, leaving me Faultless!
I didn\'t come right out and call him and idiot!