What people do to show you how stupid they are.

[LordMudd]

Don't show me how stupid you are because I don't want to see it because I DON'T CARE, so go show someone who cares!

Like the idiot who speeds to cut in front of you only to stop and turn into a driveway when you are going straight.

Or the person who says to you "If someone else jumped off a bridge, would you do it to?" Why would someone be stupid enough to ask that in the first place?


CCC.

 

[HIjol]

Imagine being the Intellectual Gift to Mankind (Genetically Enhanced) and finding out (too late) you were only thinking Two-Dimensionally...

...pretty stupid...

 

[sojourner]

Or the person who says to you "If someone else jumped off a bridge, would you do it to?" Why would someone be stupid enough to ask that in the first place?

Because they've just witnessed you doing something stupid enough to wonder if you would?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Oh look Locutus it's one of those discussion threads you were pining over.

 

[Mary Ann]

*grabs popcorn, and a stiff drink for Locutus*

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

How about the people who look at me in my work hat, work apron, work shirt, work shoes, and then go DO YOU WORK HERE?!?!?

No, dumbass, I'm just into really weird fashion statements. #doublefacepalm

 

[Pondwater]

How about the people who look at me in my work hat, work apron, work shirt, work shoes, and then go DO YOU WORK HERE?!?!?

No, dumbass, I'm just into really weird fashion statements. #doublefacepalm

I get the same thing.

 

[Amaris]

Hell, I get it and I look nothing like the people working in the store!

Well-meaning confused person: "Excuse me, do you work here?"
Me: "Umm... no. Why would you think I work here? I'm wearing a pink My Little Pony shirt, a pair of khaki shorts, carrying a shopping basket, and this is a Target."

Usually the response is "you looked like you knew what you were doing," which is both a compliment and a sad statement on retail service.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Usually the response is "you looked like you knew what you were doing,"

The response to that is obvious: "Move 'zig'. For great justice!"

 

[tharpdevenport]

How about putting paper cups upside down in a cup dispener for a water cooler? That design hasn't changed in decades and how in the world do you get the cups out? This is nature's way of lettign them know they're dumb.

Or these ladies that have been using the same creamer in a box for YEARS. Its got a panel on the bottom that you can open to dispense the little plastic containers. So, what's the solution when you get a new box of the exact same thing? Why, rip the fucking top open and ignroe the perforated line that was used last time and the time before that and the times before that as well; just rip the fucking thing open like a dumbass.

This driver's solution in moderately heavy traffic was to floor is across two lanes, over the painted lines and cut a driver off. No, not wait for it to clear; no, not go on ahead and take a side street that leads back to that road and make it there safely.


Or thinking that Guam will become so top heavy that it will capsize and sink.


In regards to jumping off a cliff -- that reminds me of a favorite Dilbert comic:
http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Jump%20Off%20Cliff

 

[Melakon]

Hell, I get it and I look nothing like the people working in the store!

Well-meaning confused person: "Excuse me, do you work here?"
Me: "Umm... no. Why would you think I work here? I'm wearing a pink My Little Pony shirt, a pair of khaki shorts, carrying a shopping basket, and this is a Target."

Usually the response is "you looked like you knew what you were doing," which is both a compliment and a sad statement on retail service.

After I had been using a cane a few years (and wearing better clothes), I was browsing in a book chain store one day and got asked that question. I don't know about you, but I've never seen a salesperson using a cane in any store.

In answer to topic question, some people are so stupid, they prove it to the entire world for all eternity by posting online.

 

[Trekker4747]

People who ask me if our pork is kosher.

People who ask me how much something costs/where something is when it's [/i]literally right in front of them![/i]

People who assume I can read their mind and make their request simply by either pointing and saying "that one" , giving me the scantest of terms ("a steak", "some hamburger.") Or in many cases just plain pointing, somehow thinking I can a)read their mind and/or b)can see from their perspective in order to know what their finger is pointing out and/or c)can see through the opaque, metal, counter top.)

In short, work in retail. You meet a LOT of stupid people incapable of thought or making basic decisions where a poor one simply means an unsatisfying meal. Seriously, I'd love to see how these people make a *real* purchase like buying a car or a home. Something that actually has a meaning or real impact on their life. Choose the wrong steak? You have a crummy meal.

Buy the wrong home or car? You have years of hassle to deal with in order to potentially get out of it without harming your credit or seriously disrupting your life.

 

[RoJoHen]

Working at a brewery, I get some pretty stupid questions/comments about beer from some of my customers. The other day someone asked me for "my least ale-tasting ale" because he hates ales. I had absolutely no idea what he thought he wanted, and then he said he wanted something like Sierra Nevada...which is a pale ale.

I don't mind if people don't know what they're talking about. I have no problem answering questions and educating people on the product. What bugs me is when people are confident in what they're talking about even though everything they're saying is wrong.

My new favorite thing customers have said: "I don't like brewed beer."

 

[mimic]

I probably shouldn't abuse my status as an authority figure by messing with the kids (it's so FUN!)...but I once convinced a runner that the 1600m race begins with a combat roll. I consider it my crowning achievement in saying ridiculous things with a straight face.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Oh look Locutus it's one of those discussion threads you were pining over.

It's like looking through a window into the past.

 

[Jim Gamma]

People who ask me how much something costs/where something is when it's [/i]literally right in front of them![/i]

Sorry, but I have to comment: People who assume that everyone has perfect eyesight. Not everyone needs a visual impairment cane to get around - there's a point at which you don't need a cane, but you may still need assistance finding things that are very close to you (particularly in crowded shops where it's easier just to ask - and I don't just mean crowded with people - finding one object on a shelf full of dozens of varieties of similar stuff (e.g. custard creams on a biscuit/cookie shelf) can be pretty tricky with naff eyesight). Also, shops are taking to using very small fonts for their prices and information cards - even if you're not classed as visually impaired, it's often quicker and easier to just ask the shopkeeper.

 

[tharpdevenport]

People who use something, use it regularly, then suddenly for some inexplicable reason put it some place other than where it belongs. Why? And don't give me they I didn't know where it belongs crap -- youv'e used it before and you took it FROM WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, so you alreayd know where it goes.


People who bitch about how bad their jobs at places like grocery stores, and then do all the crap they bitched about: leaving shopping carts anywhere (including in parking spaces, when just a few steps away there is a cart holder), pick an item up and then pit it back in a different spot a shelf away or even right under where they got it from, knock things on the floor and then don't pick up after themselves, blocking isles, treating employees rudely, and so forth.


People who walk out (or in) a grocery store, and then STOP RIGHT THERE. Hello -- there are other people coming and going than you.

 

[LordMudd]

People who ask me how much something costs/where something is when it's [/i]literally right in front of them![/i]

Sorry, but I have to comment: People who assume that everyone has perfect eyesight. Not everyone needs a visual impairment cane to get around - there's a point at which you don't need a cane, but you may still need assistance finding things that are very close to you (particularly in crowded shops where it's easier just to ask - and I don't just mean crowded with people - finding one object on a shelf full of dozens of varieties of similar stuff (e.g. custard creams on a biscuit/cookie shelf) can be pretty tricky with naff eyesight). Also, shops are taking to using very small fonts for their prices and information cards - even if you're not classed as visually impaired, it's often quicker and easier to just ask the shopkeeper.

Most stores have tags on the shelf with the price, which are barely big enough to read, but the print identifying the item is so small that you need a magnifying glass to even see it, so how do you even know it is the right item. A lot of stores now have those scanners you can use to check the price on an item, but not all are good about maintaining them "cough(Walmart)." Also not everyone is tech savvy enough to use them, as illustrated by how much trouble some people still have using the self serve checkouts. If you don't know how, go to a staffed checkout and get out of our way.

CCC.

 

[LordMudd]

People who use something, use it regularly, then suddenly for some inexplicable reason put it some place other than where it belongs. Why? And don't give me they I didn't know where it belongs crap -- youv'e used it before and you took it FROM WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, so you alreayd know where it goes.


People who bitch about how bad their jobs at places like grocery stores, and then do all the crap they bitched about: leaving shopping carts anywhere (including in parking spaces, when just a few steps away there is a cart holder), pick an item up and then pit it back in a different spot a shelf away or even right under where they got it from, knock things on the floor and then don't pick up after themselves, blocking isles, treating employees rudely, and so forth.


People who walk out (or in) a grocery store, and then STOP RIGHT THERE. Hello -- there are other people coming and going than you.

People who think they are living a Led Zeppelin song (In through the out door). People who walk on the wrong side of the aisle. Did you get there by car? If so, staying on the right side should be easy for you. People who walk slow in a group spread out across an aisle blocking normal people walking at normal speeds.

CCC.

 

[Pingfah]

There is no "wrong side of the aisle".