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Terre
Renowned
I'm afraid I'm VERY literally minded at times too Rokket.
Work funny because of that: I had been doing price changes on the jelly and jam section then had to go across the store to the Mexican section which is right next to Produce. The store's satellite feed doesn't work there so the produce manager has a radio/cd player hooked up and when she saw me she asked how I liked her jams. I was confused for a minute wondering what jam had to do with produce and then finally realized she meant the music. LOL
Work funny because of that: I had been doing price changes on the jelly and jam section then had to go across the store to the Mexican section which is right next to Produce. The store's satellite feed doesn't work there so the produce manager has a radio/cd player hooked up and when she saw me she asked how I liked her jams. I was confused for a minute wondering what jam had to do with produce and then finally realized she meant the music. LOL
Rokket
Dances with Bees
I tend to be cryptic a whole lot more than I should sometimes. I have a few friends that I can't joke with AT ALL, because they take me too literally.
I am a lefty, so I am controlled by the right side of my brain. That means that I tap into my creative side more than not. It makes me an effective story teller. I think it also might make me a good liar, though I tend not to do that.
My daddy used to tell me all the time: "son, if you don't lie, you don't have to remember what you said."
Plus women have a steel trap of a mind and my wife brings up stuff I said to her 15 years ago. Forgive and forget my butt...
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
My mum was the one who never forgot anything. She could remember something (usually embarrassing) that happened forty or fifty years ago, in detail, complete with names and places. I used to say "if I can't remember it, it never happened" 
I miss my mum tremendously but I DO NOT miss her ability to dredge up embarrassing past events and recount them IN PUBLIC!
I miss my mum tremendously but I DO NOT miss her ability to dredge up embarrassing past events and recount them IN PUBLIC!
Rokket
Dances with Bees
I went through that with my daughter.
She is in a pink dress. She has a pink headband with a flower on her head. Her ears are pierced. She has Dora The Explorer shoes on her feet.
LADY: "Awww. He's so cute! What's his name?"
I would just look at her and say nothing. My wife used to correct them, but that got old. My poor baby was bald until she was 3. But now her hair is super thick.
She is in a pink dress. She has a pink headband with a flower on her head. Her ears are pierced. She has Dora The Explorer shoes on her feet.
LADY: "Awww. He's so cute! What's his name?"
I would just look at her and say nothing. My wife used to correct them, but that got old. My poor baby was bald until she was 3. But now her hair is super thick.
"My cup holder broke!"
"What cup holder?"
"The one that slides out of the front of the machine!"
"...black tray, with a hole in the middle?"
"Yes, that's the one!"
"...that's not a cup holder. That's where you're supposed to put your program CDs into."
"CDs are kept in the bank!"
".....Sir, maybe you should give up on computers."
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"My computer won't turn on."
"Is it plugged into the wall?"
"Yes!"
"What's the last thing you were doing on it before it failed?"
"It said I should clean it, so I cleaned it."
"...."
"I took it all apart and cleaned it, and then it wouldn't turn back on after that!"
"You washed it."
"Yes. In the bath tub."
"........"
*actual conversations I witnessed in the middle of Radio Shack between my Bear (then an employee), and the customer*
Some stupidity is just unbelievable...
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
I'm actually laughing too much to type correctly, Seliah! But I can add to your convo's. A friend asked me to help his girlfriend cos her computer keyboard wouldn't work. After some discussion it appears she cleaned it with 'Firedog', a caustic cleaner for cleaning barbeques...
Yep... seen that lots of times before, too, or something like it (name of cleaner changes from one to the next, of course). Happens a lot more often than people think it does...
Still worth a pretty good chuckle.
Lorraine
The Wicked Witch of the North
Still worth a pretty good chuckle.
And that's a yes!
A confession from me...when I first bought Sans Souci I smelled a funny smell and got the broker down to the boat to check it out. After pulling up floorboards and checking the gas lines and other such things, it was discovered (by me) to be the handle of the pot on the stove overheating...you should have seen the guy's face
Back when I was in school for my CIS degree, one of my COBOL professors told us of the story of a guy who called his computer tech to come take a look at the disc (in those days floppies) he couldn't get to work.
When the tech showed up and asked to see the disc, the guy took it down from where he had thumbtacked it to his bulletin board. :headdesk:
When the tech showed up and asked to see the disc, the guy took it down from where he had thumbtacked it to his bulletin board. :headdesk: