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Thursday, I Think About Stupid Stuff
Do the people you encounter daily (at the gas station, the grocery cashier, etc) just really irk you sometimes? Do people seem Really Frikking Stupid or is it just me?
The bill is $19.54. You hand over a $20. S/he rings it. You: O wait here’s 4 pennies. Cashier: Duuuuh?
And omg if the power goes off! All business ceases!
Shouldn’t people know how to add & count money? That’s how I taught my kids numbers & what they meant…value… money! When they got older we’d play store & they’d have to add up & give change.
It wasn’t that long ago that calculators were invented…
But what do you say to this?
Store has potting soil 20# bags for $5. They’ve just run out. They also have 10# bags, same company etc. You ask the guy if you can get two 10# bags for the price of one 20# bags. He thinks for fully 3 minutes, then says That’s the same, right? So, how much do I tell her (nods towards cashier) for one? I even had one add a buck-fifty?! I was really tempted… yeah, write that down right here buddy, I’ll load what I want, I won’t interrupt you further!
I feel like… here, just let me do it… but that never goes over well… that’s when they’re sure you’re out to cheat them when all you really want is to pay for the damn stuff and go home.
I mean, I really try… to smile at people, to say thanks when someone holds the door, to compliment children when they’re being good in a store, etc…
How do you deal with these people?
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who did “Office Space” — is all about how stupid people are going to be in the future. Mostly very funny but a little scary when you realize that most people are already as incredibly dumb as he’s predicting.
Last year, I was buying some yarn at a little store way out of town. It was originally $8, now 10% off. The clerk couldn’t figure out how much to charge, so I said “10% is 80 cents, so it would be $7.20.” She stared at me, dumbfounded, like I was speaking some foreign language, and then called someone and asked if that was right (!!), just to make sure I wasn’t trying to pull a fast one.
But, to top it all off, when I handed her a $10, she could not figure out how to make change. And as she’s struggling, she says “I wish my husband was here. He always handles the money.” At which point, I realized I had been rendered so completely speechless that all I could do was tell her it was okay, not a problem, don’t worry about it — anything to get the hell out of there.
So that’s how I deal with stupid people — not very well. Mostly I just try to avoid them, but not having much luck with that these days.
V.
or something along these lines, maybe without whatever that stuff is on the bottom. Ria and I can whip these up for us all in no time, right, Ria?
i’ll never make it to witr…