People are funny

[Gerrinson]

A couple of quick funny things I've noticed lately.

The Beach

Quick background: I work in western Massachusetts, in a little county known as The Berkshires.

I overheard 2 customers walking down the hallway, talking to each other, and caught this gem as I went past them:

Woman #1: Can you believe that <Workplace> actively advertises they have a beach? And they're quick to tell you it's in walking distance.

Woman #2: Oh, we should go check it out!

Woman #1: Don't bother, because you know what they don't tell you? It's not the ocean! It's just on a lake.

My brain stumbled over itself for a moment, then I pictured a map in my head, and I have to wonder...where in the hell would anyone get the idea that a place in western Mass would be within walking distance of the ocean? Seriously, have a look for yourself. I just shook my head and kept walking. No point putting more brain cells at risk in that quagmire.

Going to the Beach - I hope

Just last week, I saw a customer whom I hope was headed to our beach. To be clear, it is November in New England. Not the warmest time of year, to be sure. As I was leaving, at 6:00 PM, it's dark and windy out. I see somebody on the front lawn and I do a double take.

Nope, I was right, there is a guy walking across the lawn, out onto the drive, wearing nothing but a towel. And a gust of wind confirmed that it was nothing else. This guy didn't even have flip flops on!

Now, the beach is within walking distance, but that walk is going to be either through the woods or down a gravel driveway. I'd want shoes for either of those. And he's going at night. In the dark. And there are no lights in the woods or on that driveway. Or worse, he was going to walk a couple miles up the road into town in just his towel...

People are funny, man, people are just downright funny. In the head.

[catcul]

A couple of quick funny things I've noticed lately.

The Beach

...where in the hell would anyone get the idea that a place in western Mass would be within walking distance of the ocean?

It's the same reason that someone books a hotel in Orlando, FL, expecting a view of the ocean. They don't want to think.

Nope, I was right, there is a guy walking across the lawn, out onto the drive, wearing nothing but a towel. And a gust of wind confirmed that it was nothing else. This guy didn't even have flip flops on!

Maybe he was going to a sausage roast.

[siskaren]

It's the same reason that someone books a hotel in Orlando, FL, expecting a view of the ocean. They don't want to think.

I was going to post the same thing. I've heard of people wanting an ocean view room at Disney World.

[WishfulSpirit]

Hotel "views" are interesting. The property where I work advertises mountain views. Yes, you can see the mountains. Just as you can see the mountains from any building in Denver taller than two stories that has west-facing windows. It's NOT the same as being in Boulder or Winter Park and the mountains are right.fracking.there. All you see from our windows is a purplish outline unless the wind is blowing just right.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Hotel "views" are interesting.

Heh. I remember something from one of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour DVDs. The boys were showing some candid photos from their home albums and cracking wise on each other while doing so. One of Ron White's pics goes up and he's asked where the picture was taken.

Ron replies, "At my apartment, the Bridgeview Apartments. And there was no bridge, and there was no view."

[Minflick]

Heh heh heh. We used to live in El Toro, California. Which, in the last election while we lived there, changed the town name to Lake Forrest. There were, of course, neither forests, nor lake anywhere in town. Man made puddles, to be sure, shallow and nasty, but no Lake and no Forrest.

[wolfie]

Was that "Forrest" as you spelled it, or "Forest" (as in "bunch of trees")? If the former, was a racist group behind the change?

[Jay 2K Winger]

Was that "Forrest" as you spelled it, or "Forest" (as in "bunch of trees")? If the former, was a racist group behind the change?

Now, now, if it was the former, there's just as much likelihood they named it after Forrest Gump. I know where Gump got his given name from, but there's probably millions of people who don't remember that part.

[Minflick]

Oh, I missspelled it...... It was 'trees' not racism.

[nutraxfornerves]

I volunteer at a small history museum. We are just up the street from a large, famous museum devoted to, let's say, televisions.

TV-Land is huge. It has all sorts of signs announcing its name and illustrations of televisions all over the outside. The minute you walk in, you see TVs. Our museum is much smaller. We, too, have all sorts of signs. A big arch over the entryway with a sign. A smaller sign near the door that says "History Museum! Come in and see [a list of history stuff]." We often have a banner advertising a temporary exhibit. None of it remotely pertains to TVs.

Several times a week, we get people who come in, pay the entry fee, wander around the museum, and then return to the front dest and ask "where are the TVs?" Even if you manage to miss all the signs, perhaps the first things you see when you enter--the mannequin in the 1880 dress with the huge bustle , and all those black and white photos of old city streets--might tip you off that you are in the wrong place.

[Lovecats]

I volunteer at a small history museum. We are just up the street from a large, famous museum devoted to, let's say, televisions.

TV-Land is huge. It has all sorts of signs announcing its name and illustrations of televisions all over the outside. The minute you walk in, you see TVs. Our museum is much smaller. We, too, have all sorts of signs. A big arch over the entryway with a sign. A smaller sign near the door that says "History Museum! Come in and see [a list of history stuff]." We often have a banner advertising a temporary exhibit. None of it remotely pertains to TVs.

Several times a week, we get people who come in, pay the entry fee, wander around the museum, and then return to the front dest and ask "where are the TVs?" Even if you manage to miss all the signs, perhaps the first things you see when you enter--the mannequin in the 1880 dress with the huge bustle , and all those black and white photos of old city streets--might tip you off that you are in the wrong place.

Wait! You expect people to read? What kind of nut are you?

[dalesys]

Wait! You expect people to read? What kind of nut are you?

Pissed-offeeo?

[Monterey Jack]

Wait! You expect people to read? What kind of nut are you?

"I vas elected to lead, not to read."

[Jay 2K Winger]

Wait! You expect people to read? What kind of nut are you?

"Wait! You mean read?!"
"While we're still alive?!"

[Swordsman422]

God, that's hilarious.

This story reminds me that in my native Oklahoma, hunting whales is against the law.