I can FEEL my IQ dropping......

[Kati]

Not at work, but on the way to, when I used to catch a bus to work...

I'm standing there one day, waiting for said bus. Group of teenagers come up to bus stop... After about 5 minutes, a girl asks me "are you waiting for the 333?" (There's only one bus route on this road.)
"Yep"
"Has it been yet?"



I don't even remember how I answered. I remember being completely amazed at the question though.

...

And not so much as a stupid question, but a WTF moment... Having spent over an hour on the phone to a customer, trying to get them to type their email address in to a modem, and them typing it incorrectly, so can't connect... And around and around and around we go. And then the woman suddenly says "oh, I see where I went wrong! I left the C out of Hotmail"*

Stop! No! Wait... What?

People at work are STILL laughing over that.

*No, our email address is not hotmail. But despite it NOT being hotmail, there's also no C in our name. Nor could you conceivably spell it with a C.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I get a ton of stupid questions at TB but by far my 2 faves of lately have to be:

(customer in drive thru)
Uh yeah.....Do you sell burritos?
Me: Um...I'm sorry....What?

[Broomjockey]

"The meeses! Where's the meeses?"

Reminds me of a silly quote, can't remember where from (other than a TV show, I think) "Let's tear these meeses to pieces."

But "meeses" doesn't even make sense logically. Mouse, house. Houses, Mouses. Goose, Moose. Geese, Meese. So she was asking for a moose, you see, not a mouse.

[PepperElf]

In the end, it turned out not to be my user, thank god. The level 1 folks botched the contact information as usual, and when I eventually did get my user, I asked about the phone number, and it didn't match any phone they'd ever had.

that happened to me with my hp desktop once. the first clue was when they didn't ask me how to spell my last name (long and Polish). when i actually got to the English speaking tech, everything was f*ed up... my name, address, serial. i mean seriously, I think the out-source call-taker just dropped a cat on the keyboard and had it type out my information. O_o

one of my favorites...
"I know the network's down but is there any way to get my computer to connect?"
O_o .... sure, run a cable to the satellite?

[Nashida]

I stopped in to Petco to visit a friend who works there, and we had this woman in her mid-thrities come up and ask us "Where are the meeses?"

We looked at each other for a minute and went "The what?"

"The meeses! Where's the meeses?"

My friend goes "The mice? You mean the mice? The mice are over there..."

"Yeah! Yeah! The meeses!"

I also overheard a guy at DD asking why his iced coffee was cold...

[Andara Bledin]

I work in a shoe store:

"Is an extra-wide WIDER than a wide?"

....



^-.-^

[Beisbolica]

I work in a shoe store:

"Is an extra-wide WIDER than a wide?"

[Rivulatus]

When doing tech support for cell phone customers, I often ask what kind of phone they have, frequently the response I get, said usually in the "Are you stupid?" tone, is: "It's a cell phone"

LOL
This reminded me of something that happened to one of my co-workers. Guy rings up asking if we sell mobile phone batteries. He says we have some, but not many, and asked what type of battery he needed.
"hang on, i'll check"
*BEEEP*
A couple of minutes later he rings up again.
"uhm, somehow we got disconnected"
to which my co-worker (who was very short on tact) replied
"haha yeah, you pulled the battery out of your phone"
"no i didn't"

[Jadedcarguy]

I wouldn't even say that. I know it might come as a surprise to some, but I've gotten some really good real bread at Wally World. Particularly the small size ciabatta loaves. They've got a lot of really good bread there that's under $3. By the way, it costs me less than $3 to make, from scratch, a loaf of bread myself. Does that mean that mine is crap, too?

Uh, no.

And I was referring to store bought full size loaves.

The generic double loaf bread from the store I used to go to was less then $3 for two loaves. It was pretty good, actually.

You guys are jumping all over this for some reason. In my experience, cheap bread is not as good as more expensive bread. That is all.

[traylk]

I get a ton of stupid questions at TB but by far my 2 faves of lately have to be:

(customer in drive thru)
Uh yeah.....Do you sell burritos?
Me: Um...I'm sorry....What?


And...

(Another drive thru Einstein)
Me: Hi, Can I help you?
SC: Yeah yeah....just a sec.
(I hear her talking to another person in the car)
SC: Um excuse me?
Me: Yes can I help you?
SC: When did you start selling tacos?
Me: I'm sorry?
SC: Well where are your burgers?
Me: ????
(I hear her talking to the person in her car)
SC: Nevermind I'm going to *burger place with little girl w/ pigtails*
Me: Have a nice night

The only thing we could figure out was that she thought she was at the *golden arches* which is actually behind us.

[Andara Bledin]

I was referring to the supermarket. Typically the cheap bread is crap. The bread you're referring to is clearly an exception.

The generic double loaf bread from the store I used to go to was less then $3 for two loaves. It was pretty good, actually.

When doing tech support for cell phone customers, I often ask what kind of phone they have, frequently the response I get, said usually in the "Are you stupid?" tone, is: "It's a cell phone"

Ah, I can see the problem right there. You were asking what kind of phone, to which the answer cell phone is actually correct. The proper question was what brand and or model of phone they had.

^-.-^

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

When doing tech support for cell phone customers, I often ask what kind of phone they have, frequently the response I get, said usually in the "Are you stupid?" tone, is: "It's a cell phone"

*brain explodes*

I KNOW THAT YOU TWIT! Is it a Motorola, Sanyo, Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry, help me out here!

[South Texan]

How could you??!! You forgot DEAN CAIN!

Not to mention Kirk Alyn, the first actor to play Superman.

Can you tell I do not keep up with Superman movies or series? I only saw the first movie with Christopher Reeve. I never saw the newest movie nor watched an episode or the Lois and Clark or Smallville series.

And the guy did not look like Cain or Alyn either.

[Ironclad Alibi]

"I wonder if he is the REAL Superman."

I overheard that one from a woman in her thirties watching a bunch of actor types in superhero costumes signing autographs at an amusement park last year.

She honestly did not look to be mentally challenged - and she was not speaking to a child. Further, the guy in the blue tights and red cape costume looked nothing like actors Brandon Routh, Christopher Reeve, Tom Welling or even George Reeves. In fact, he was wearing a very obvious wig and muscle padding.

How could you??!! You forgot DEAN CAIN!

Not to mention Kirk Alyn, the first actor to play Superman.

[Pagan]

Further, the guy in the blue tights and red cape costume looked nothing like actors Brandon Routh, Christopher Reeve, Tom Welling or even George Reeves.

How could you??!! You forgot DEAN CAIN!

What does cost have to do with it? The bakery I go to, they charge $1.50 for a loaf of organic bread, baked in a woodfire oven. Why would that not be real bread?

I was thinking the same thing.

I was referring to the supermarket. Typically the cheap bread is crap. The bread you're referring to is clearly an exception.

I wouldn't even say that. I know it might come as a surprise to some, but I've gotten some really good real bread at Wally World. Particularly the small size ciabatta loaves. They've got a lot of really good bread there that's under $3. By the way, it costs me less than $3 to make, from scratch, a loaf of bread myself. Does that mean that mine is crap, too?

Like wine, price doesn't have anything to do with whether the bread is real or good.