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Lone Wolf
14th October 2008, 03:04 PM
Sighting #1:

I was busy writing some computer program for one of my classes and my roommate asked me if he could use my coffee maker. I said, "Sure." The next thing I hear is, "Hey, where do you put the coffee?" I turn to see that he has filled the filter basket with water and is unsuccessfully trying to keep the water in the basket by plugging the hole at the bottom with his finger. He and the floor are both covered with water.


Sighting #2:

I was at the airport, checking in at the gate, when the airport employee asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?" I said, "If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?" He smiled and nodded knowingly, "That's why we ask."


Sighting #3:

The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it is safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged co-worker of mine, when she asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals to blind people when the light is red. She responded, appalled, "What on earth are blind people doing driving?"


Sighting #4:

At a goodbye lunch for an old and dear co-worker who is leaving the company due to "rightsizing," our manager spoke up and said, "This is fun. We should have lunch like this more often." Not another word was spoken. We just looked at each other like deer staring into the headlights of an approaching truck.


Sighting #5:

I worked with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the life of her could not understand why her system would not turn on.


Sighting #6: (a rare "double sighting"):

A friend had a brilliant idea for saving disk space. He thought if he put all his Microsoft Word documents into a tiny font they'd take up less room. When he told me I was with another friend. She thought it was a good idea too.


Sighting #7 (from Tech Support):

Tech Support: "How much free space do you have on your hard drive?" Induhvidual: "Well, my wife likes to get up there on that Internet, and she downloaded ten hours of free space. Is that enough?"


Sighting #8 (from Tech Support):

Induhvidual: Now what do I do? Tech Support: What is the prompt on the screen? Induhvidual: It's asking for "Enter Your Last Name." Tech Support: Okay, so type in your last name. Induhvidual: How do you spell that?

Farley
15th October 2008, 12:47 PM
:doh:

Lizentor
15th October 2008, 02:18 PM
Sighting #5:

I worked with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the life of her could not understand why her system would not turn on.



When I did support on a helpdesk, I actually had a caller with this situation. They plugged the PC and monitor in the power strip and the power strip back into itself and thought that would work. For whatever reason, they would not unplug it from itself so I ended up doing some "tests" on the power strip and telling them it was bad. Once they had a new power strip, I walked them thru step by step on how to plug it into the wall and then plugging everything else into it. By the end of the call, I think they realized what they did in the first place. :)

Jules
16th October 2008, 12:30 PM
At least stupidity provides some entertainment for the rest of us :sunshine: