Are People Really This Stupid?

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mmdd Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 8:46pm
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ROTFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!

These are funny!

I don't have much to add, except one time someone asked where we keep the cheese...umm, in the refrigerator; and also someone asked where the ice was....ummmm, in the freezer.

LOL!

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chaptlps Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 8:49pm
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o man, got another one,
when I first started working at walmart I was in the fitting room and answered phones. Well every year during the holidays, people will call and ask if we are open. Nah, I was just sitting here thinkin of robbing the joint when the dang phone started ringin, sheesh. Here's yer sign!!!

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sirius Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 8:59pm
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during a summer job at the canadian national exhibition, when my daughter was working on the phone info line, someone called to ask how much it cost to see the air show.....

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divaofcakes Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 9:02pm
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I recently had a bride that was completely dumbfounded that I started baking on a Thursday for a Sat. a.m. wedding. She prefers her cakes "fresh". I offered a cake baked early Sat. a.m. with steam coming off of it and no icing... she didn't say another word. But she ordered her "not so fresh" cake from me anyway. God love her!!

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tiggy2 Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 9:13pm
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My granddaughter and her friend were at my house for lunch today and were texting each other on their cell phones. The friend said to my granddaughter "OMG look how fast I got your message, it must be because I'm sitting right next to you" so then my daughter says " WOW, I didn't know that would make a difference" DH and I just looked at each other and started laughing as did my granddaughter.

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notmymum Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 9:25pm
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People never cease to amaze me. My Dad used to run a hardware store (before B & Q took over the world!) and a man came in for some lawn feed.
Now it comes in different sized bags depending on how much lawn you want to cover so when my Dad said "certainly sir, what area is it for?"
The guy replied "Edgbaston" (an area of Birmingham,UK)

DUH! icon_cool.gif

He also had a trainee painter/decorator come in (who'd been sent in by the lads on a job) asking for striped paint. Bless him, he never clocked on.

At least these people make the rest of us look bright!

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peajay66 Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 9:39pm
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I haven't read the entire thread, but I thought I'd throw this in...

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I watched "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" this week and could not believe some of the questions that were missed. The one about how many teaspoons you would have if you had five tablespoons seemed like a no brainer to me.



15 tsp.

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thank you for that info! I've been baking for for over 30 years. Did 4-H for many years and took home economics and even a special foods class in high school and I never knew that 3 teaspoons=1 tablespoon.

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TooCuteRose Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 9:47pm
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the one about the mayflower that was funny...she wasn't even sure of that...yea...some of those ppl were funny to watch...seemed like they had camera fright...

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mpitrelli Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 10:01pm
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ok I had to ring on this one. Many years ago I worked in a shoe store in a local mall. When ever we got new employees we would pull a little prank on them. We would get in a shipment of new shoes and they had to be put away in the stockroom. Well we would send them to another store in the mall for the wall stretcher. Most of the other stores knew about this prank and would say that they loaned it to such and such store and they would have to check there. One girl went to 4 different stores before they finally told her the truth.

another one we woud have those little peds to try on shoes if you did not have any stocking on we would give them to the customers. Well I would ask them if they wanted a left or right and they would always tell me whick one. Then one day this lady says she wants the right because thats her bigger foot, well I tell her we are out of rights and only have lefts. So what does she do take the ped and put it on her left foot and says she will have to wait til she gets home to try on the rights.

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candy177 Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 10:17pm
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Okay....I have one.....this is one of MY things -

DH and I love to play trivial pursuit - well...one day we were playing and the question for me was something along the lines of, "What major gift on a string craze started in the 80s?" (or whatever decade it was)
I proudly yelled out, "Tampons!" When I realized what I said, I joined DH (who was already) dying in laughter! (The answer was soap on a rope!)
What made me think tampons????

The other day at work, some lady picked up a cheesecake and asked me if it was fresh. Nope, that cheesecake's been sitting out there for 3 weeks. So I explained that yes, they are all fresh and she asked me when it was baked....so I tell her that they come in frozen (because I work in a grocery store bakery). She looked at me dumbfounded and asked if there was any place she could get a BAKED cheesecake in town! (Nope, that cheesecake is also raw.)

I love it when people ask me what MARBLE cake is. Or what YELLOW cake is. Duh.

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Candy120 Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 10:21pm
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One time (at band camp!!) my husband sent me to the hardware store for 16 penny box nails...the lady was scooping them up with that scooper deal into a bag and I said, "ummmmmmmmmm. I think he wants them in a box!" .......DUH!!! I didn't know that they were called 16 penny box nails...how should I know!

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ge978 Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 10:41pm
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Ok...this one is brand new...i just got off the phone with my dh....I've been going tanning and i just went this morning...so here's the conversation:
Him: Hey..i'm at the store...is there anything you need?
Me: Maybe some aloe..i'm really burnt
Him: You mean from tanning?
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Me: Um..no..from standing out in the snow icon_confused.gif

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lionladydi Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 10:48pm
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thank you for that info! I've been baking for for over 30 years. Did 4-H for many years and took home economics and even a special foods class in high school and I never knew that 3 teaspoons=1 tablespoon.




You have got to be kidding! I just cannot believe that everyone didn't know this. I guess I just expect everyone to be born knowing these things as I don't even remember when I learned it. From this question I went to the question of how many tablespoons in a cup. My daughter had no idea. She said her MIL gave her a magnet with this stuff on it and she keeps in on her refrigerator so she can check if she needs to.

I know that I learned most of the basics of cooking in home economics. My mom was a terrific cook but she was a throw in this much and that much and didn't measure anything. I cook like that now most of the time but when I have to know how to measure I am glad that I learned it in school. I think that they don't teach the basics in school anymore. They don't even call it home economics anymore. icon_lol.gificon_lol.gif

This has been a hilarious thread...........

Diane

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VACakelady Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 10:54pm
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I've got a couple about my mom, she's so funny. When she got her first cell phone, she went out to run errands one day and decided to call my dad. She picked up her phone and realized that it was the TV remote. I guess they must have been sitting near each other at home and she grabbed the remote and carried it with her. I wonder how dad planned on flipping channels with the phone? LOL

Another time, we were all at the dinner table at my parents house and my mom had her glasses off for some reason. My brother was talking to her and she said "Hold on, I can't hear you", put her glasses back on then said, "Ok, now what did you say." ROFL!!! She's never lived that one down. She often has a hard time hearing people these days and someone always asks her "Do you have your glasses on?" LOL LOL

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mkerton Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 10:55pm
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lionladydi........nope home ec is not a requirement anymore....I graduated from HS nearly 11 years ago and my Mom was soooo disappointed... but I did enroll in a Shop class!!!! LOL

I did know the tsp to tablespoon ratio but it was just a lucky guess!!!

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ge978 Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 10:56pm
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i just thought of another one...we talked about this one for a long time. Ok...so i sent an employee out to get change...like the rolls of quarters,etc. So..i gave him a $20 bill and said...get one quarter, one dime, one nickle , and one penny and bring the rest in ones....don't you know that he brought one single quarter, dime, nickle,and penny and brought back $19 and some odd cents in change icon_rolleyes.gif I guess i should have been more specific!!

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darandon Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 11:01pm
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Here is my stupid people story - I am the payroll department where I work. I deal with everyone's paychecks and at this time of the year, their W2's. The W2's go to the address that is printed on their paychecks, the address they supply to us. Apparently when they move, they think I should know they moved. When they call looking for their missing w2 the first thing I ask is if they gave us the new address - the answer is no, I then ask if they notified the post office they moved. The answer is always "No, I didn't know that I needed to tell them I moved. I thought the people that move in after me would just send on my mail"
When I tell them that when I receive back the w2 I will put the new address on it and send it. the next question is "Well how long will that take to get to me?" My response back is "Since I don't work for the post office I can't tell you that answer"

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lionladydi Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 11:26pm
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When it came time for my mom to move off the farm and into town we had quite an ordeal with her telephone. Mind you she was 82 years old and still pretty sharp. For a few days she stayed at a friends' house as she had sold the farm but could not yet move into her new home. They hooked up her cordless phone so it would be easier for her. She told us to call her there. I asked what their number was and she told me just to call her number as she had her phone. I tried to explain to her that she was hooked into their phone jack so it would be their number. She never did believe me. The funny part was that she got mad at my brother because he did not call her while she was staying there. I knew that she was staying there so I called their number. She just thought I was calling her old number. Then we get her moved into her new house and I called the phone company to have her phone changed. She told me it wasn't necessary as she was using her old phone. Again I tried to explain it. To make matters worse, I couldn't get her phone to work there and I bought a new one. Oh my goodness...........I went through sheer hell when she asked when the phone company was coming to program her number into that new phone. icon_lol.gificon_lol.gificon_lol.gif

Then my brother gets a cell phone as he is working out of town on road construction. She needed to reach him so I told her to call his cell number. She told me she didn't know how to use one of those stupid cell phone. I told her she wasn't using it, he was and to call him. She said she didn't know how to call a cell number. "God help us," I said. Rest her soul, she is gone now and I wish I had her back to try to explain things some more.
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Diane

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candy177 Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 11:49pm
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My SIL's husband was the postmaster of the small post office and he came home and told her that the price of stamps was going to go up...so she naturally said, "bring some home before the price goes up!!"
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OMG LMAO - DH loves to read these funny threads....he goes...."well, what's wrong with that????" And then smacked his head in disbelief (and disgust, as he just said)........

To his credit though, he works 2 jobs and just got off a double shift. So he's tired....BUT his DAD works for the PO....so he SHOULD know better!!!!!! icon_lol.gif

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TooCuteRose Posted 4 Mar 2007 , 11:55pm
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mkerton...ain't that ironic...u didn't wanna take the home ec class...but the shop class...now u bake cakes...don't worry i'm the same...but i was also into AFJROTC and my dream school was West Point...

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wysmommy Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 12:19am
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These are hilarious!

Ok I'll add 2

1. I used to own a coffee shop. People would come in and say "I'd like a medium coffee please." We would say fine and ask what they would like in it. I can't tell you how many times the conversation would finish like this:

"What?"
"What would you like in your coffee?"
"Like what?"
"Milk, Cream, sugar, splenda..."
"oh yeah, sure."

UH...care to be more specific? Why are you ordering coffee if you don't know what's in it?

2. My brother bought a condo. My dad came by to help with some plumbing. He took a look at the sink and took out a peice of pipe to go and buy a new disposal. Then they decided to try and connect the washer and dryer before going to Home Depot in case they needed anything for that too. In trying to connect a valve something broke and all of a sudden hot water was shooting out from the wall at them. (The condo was on the 4th floor). They shut off valve was above where the break was. So they start grabbing trash cans and pans and trying to catch as much water as they can until they can figure out what to do. My dad's catching the water and my brother is emptying the pans/trashcans out. My brother comes into the room and goes "Dad, we really need to get a plumber here NOW. There is water coming from underneath the sink too!" HE WAS DUMPING THE WATER DOWN THE SINK WITH NO PIPE! Needless to say they had to repair the ceiling of the condo beneath them.

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PieceofCakeAZ Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 12:35am
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Wow... I didn't realize that my mother in law had touched so many lives. icon_wink.gif


Seriously, one time we were at her house and before she left for the grocery store she asked if I needed anything, I replied " pick me up a bag of crack and a bottle of Robitussin". I got a call on my cell phone 30 minutes later and she said she could only find the Robitussin. icon_surprised.gificon_biggrin.gif

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redpanda Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 12:55am
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One of my job responsibilities is sending graduate students materials for their courses. Needless to say, if they move without updating their address in our records, the package gets sent--via FedEx--to the wrong address. One particularly brilliant student moved without notifiying me, and when I called her (at work) to say that the package had been sent back to me as no longer at that address. She said, yes she had moved, but she thought that the "post office notified everyone of your new address". I said that we ship via FedEx. Her response--"I think they tell them, too!". Just because I was feeling snarky, I asked if she notified all of her credit card companies, and there was a pause followed by, "is that why I haven't gotten any bills at my new apartment?" Probably, sunshine. icon_smile.gif

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ge978 Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 1:11am
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Oh wait..i've saved the stupidest for me icon_biggrin.gif Ok ...so our power went out one day...i'm sitting on the couch with my dh and i said..

"well, since we have no power I may as well go do some laundry" icon_confused.gif I figured out why that wouldn't work and proceeded to go to the kitchen to microwave a hot pocket icon_confused.gif ...Feeling ever so dumb, i picked up the portable phone to tell my sister how dumb I was icon_confused.gif
There are some days I'm thankful I have 2 of the same shoes on icon_rolleyes.gif

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lionladydi Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 1:17am
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Oh wait..i've saved the stupidest for me icon_biggrin.gif Ok ...so our power went out one day...i'm sitting on the couch with my dh and i said..

"well, since we have no power I may as well go do some laundry" icon_confused.gif I figured out why that wouldn't work and proceeded to go to the kitchen to microwave a hot pocket icon_confused.gif ...Feeling ever so dumb, i picked up the portable phone to tell my sister how dumb I was icon_confused.gif
There are some days I'm thankful I have 2 of the same shoes on icon_rolleyes.gif




Not funny! My girlfriend went to church a couple of weeks ago with, not only two different colored shoes, but two left shoes. Now tell me how in the world a person wouldn't notice they had on two left shoes???? icon_lol.gif Said she had on her mink coat. Bet they thought she was a well-to-do idiot. icon_lol.gificon_lol.gif

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bjfranco Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 1:26am
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Oh wait..i've saved the stupidest for me icon_biggrin.gif Ok ...so our power went out one day...i'm sitting on the couch with my dh and i said..

"well, since we have no power I may as well go do some laundry" icon_confused.gif I figured out why that wouldn't work and proceeded to go to the kitchen to microwave a hot pocket icon_confused.gif ...Feeling ever so dumb, i picked up the portable phone to tell my sister how dumb I was icon_confused.gif
There are some days I'm thankful I have 2 of the same shoes on icon_rolleyes.gif




sorry, but my stomach hurts from laughing. icon_lol.gificon_cry.gificon_lol.gificon_cry.gificon_lol.gif
I have had many days like that......................

bj

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JodieF Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 1:27am
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I run an elementary school Computer Lab. District policy says that subs cannot bring classes to the Lab without my being there to supervise, so the teacher has to be sure I'll be in the Lab if they know they're going to be absent but want their kids to come to the Lab. I had one teacher who always sent her kids with a sub without checking first, so I sent out an e-mail reminder of district policy. This particular teacher, who has a Masters Degree, wrote me back "I didn't think you meant MY subs!". icon_lol.gif Nope...I just meant everyone else's!!!!

Here's your sign!

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TooCuteRose Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 1:55am
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In trying to connect a valve something broke and all of a sudden hot water was shooting out from the wall at them.


b4 i do any plumbing i turn off the main valve...sometimes i forget to turn it back on...and have to call my dad to figure out what i did wrong...haha...or when i went to microwave something...forgetting i had unplugged it and can't figure out why it's not working...or my computer when we untangled the cords and put ties on them...to keep them from getting tangled again...i tried several times to turn the computer back on...getting furious and stomping out of the room, not knowing what's wrong...cuz all we did was untangle the cords...my bf starts looking around...calls me in the room...he's holding the power surger in his hand...says could this be the problem...i had forgot to plug the power surge back in...lol...ok...i think something may be off in my head...haha...

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indydebi Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 1:57am
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Husband grew up in the family business and one day a relative/employee told hubby (who was about 14 at the time) to "get me a gallon bucket". Hubby went and got a gallon bucket and brought it back to the guy. Guy looks at him and said, "I didn't mean one of those LITTLE gallon buckets! I need a BIG gallon bucket!"

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TooCuteRose Posted 5 Mar 2007 , 1:59am
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there's 2 different sizes for gallons...wow...i need to go back to elementary and learn the other sizes...haha...here's his sign...

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