How Do Stupid People Survive?

It never ceases to amaze me at the number of stupid people I come across each and every day.

Many people lack the slightest bit of common sense and seem to be unable to think for themselves. People lack the knowledge and the skills to perform even the simplest mental tasks. Therefore, people are not able to think on their own and need others to tell them what to do.

Bill Engvall suggested that stupid people be given a sign so that we would know who the stupid are, but I propose that there is no need for a sign. The stupid are very easy to recognize and almost impossible to avoid. I come across them every day at McDonald's, on the freeway and in Walmart. They are every where and we only make things worse by helping them survive. The gene pool has been polluted and needs cleaning.

The stories below aren't all mine but I have had my share of like situations. Enjoy or cringe, which ever applies.

Case #1

I am a high school varsity football coach and one of the stupidest things I ever heard was when a referee said, "Coach, I'm going to start throwing the flag if you don't tell your team to quit hitting so hard."

IT'S FOOTBALL!! The game is inherently violent. They're supposed to hit hard. What an idiot. Go ref a soccer game. 

Case #2

Once, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right."  So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.

Case #3

I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider," looking it all over for the  bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said "OK,"and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.

Case #4

A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."

Case #5

Once saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk."

Case #6

Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper.  What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.

Case #7

I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister." I asked  the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the "Cruise Control" and then went in the back to make a tuna sandwich.

Case #8

My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers.  One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"

Case #9

Police in Radnor, Pa., interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

Case #10

A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the  emergency room, the kid was eating ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should be fine. The mother says "I just gave him some ant killer....." Dispatcher: "Rush him in to Emergency!"

"Life is Tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid."