[lizardlady]

A friend sent me a list of idiot sightings. Here's the first....

We had to have the garage door repaired.

The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener.

I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.

He shook his head and said, 'Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.' I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4.He said, 'NO, it's not..' Four is larger than two.'

We haven't used Sears repair since.

[Permanent Pajamas]

LL, you're sick! Get well soon!

[lizardlady]

A second idiot sighting.....

IDIOT SIGHTING
I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the sake of her life, couldn't understand why her system would not turn on.
A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriffs office, no less.

[Travelinglady]

Why am I not surprised?

I, too, hope you feel better soon.

[lizardlady]

Today's Idiot Sighting....

How would you pronounce this child's name?
"Le-a"

Leah?? NO
Lee - A?? NOPE
Lay - a?? NO
Lei?? Guess Again.

This child attends a school in Kansas City , Mo. Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong. It's pronounced "Ledasha".When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent." SO, if you see something come across your desk like this please remember to pronounce the dash. If dey axe you why, tell dem de dash don't be silent.

[ibex]

lololol so freakin funny

[OldSchoolBill]

When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it.
We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the drivers side door.
As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked.
'Hey,' I announced to the technician, 'its open!'
His reply, 'I know. I already got that side.'

[Nicks_Nose]

Wow!

Originally Posted by lizardlady

Today's Idiot Sighting....

How would you pronounce this child's name?
"Le-a"

Leah?? NO
Lee - A?? NOPE
Lay - a?? NO
Lei?? Guess Again.

This child attends a school in Kansas City , Mo. Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong. It's pronounced "Ledasha".When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent." SO, if you see something come across your desk like this please remember to pronounce the dash. If dey axe you why, tell dem de dash don't be silent.

Ohhhh that cracked me UP.

((((Liz)))) you are a gem. A+

My husband worked at AOL tech support back in the early days.

A person asked why his automatic coffee holder was no longer coming out. After a bit of questioning, my husband discovered that he was using his CD tray (that comes in and out to hold your CD) to hold his morning cup of Joe.

You may need to be of the older crowd for this one since it no longer exists. One day, my husband needed a credit card number from a customer. The customer put his credit card inside his floppy drive and got angry at my husband when it wouldn't "pop back out". He thought the floppy drive would read his credit card info!

[-jimi-]

Back in school days. We didn't have lockers. This particular day we had subjects where all the books were heavy. So my book bag I needed to tug along was really heavy. I asked someone else to lift it, they said "Wow so heavy, what's in it?". I joked and said bricks. Reply: "Why are you taking bricks to school???"

LOL.

[lizardlady]

[-jimi-]

ROFL, they can try to cheat with THAT sign. Excellent!

[-jimi-]

Computer lab in the 80s. It consisted of running programs and program in the language BASIC. There are some standard commands that are used a lot such as PRINT (which has nothing to do with printers. it writes something on the screen), GOTO (which skips to another command line) and so on. We were strictly ordered not to touch the F keys. Of course my friend and I just had to try and hoped something weird wouldn't happen. Came out the F keys were programmed as shortcuts to common commands as described above and I guess the teacher wanted us to do it the hard way.

After I was going to tell someone what happened and our teacher's effort to make us type everything out. I was here in the story: "And she told us strictly NOT to touch the F keys...... but we did anyway!"

Person said big eyed: "What happened then??????"

Looked so shocked I couldn't but make a joke. "The computer exploded" I said.

"It did?????" they said shocked.

*Giggles*

[Travelinglady]

Speaking of computers, mine has an idiot at the keyboard when I sit down in front of it. I'm always having to ask my husband or sons, if home, for help with something.

But I still have to laugh when I heard about one company who received a phone call from an ignorant person who was trying to navigate their instructions about pressing any key to proceed along in the system. "Where is the 'any key' on the computer?" the person asked.

I feel like asking some if they got an
ID:10T Error

Someone called once asking why AOL, or their computer for that matter, wouldn't come on and my husband asked them to check something. The guy's response was, "Wait, let me get a flashlight."

[Nicks_Nose]

The following is a story being told by another person. This is not my story.

"I was signing the receipt for my credit card purchase when the clerk noticed I had never signed my name on the back of the credit card. She informed me that she could not complete the transaction unless the card was signed. When I asked why, she explained that it was necessary to compare the signature I had just signed on the receipt. So I signed the credit card in front of her. She carefully compared the signature to the one I had just signed on the receipt. As luck would have it, they matched."

[Mike_J]

Originally Posted by Nicks_Nose

The following is a story being told by another person. This is not my story.

"I was signing the receipt for my credit card purchase when the clerk noticed I had never signed my name on the back of the credit card. She informed me that she could not complete the transaction unless the card was signed. When I asked why, she explained that it was necessary to compare the signature I had just signed on the receipt. So I signed the credit card in front of her. She carefully compared the signature to the one I had just signed on the receipt. As luck would have it, they matched."

My soon to be ex-wife HATES the way I normally sign my name, so I used to always carefully sign the back of my credit cards. So when I sign a receipt it looks NOTHING like the signature on the back of the credit card. Out of the hundreds of times clerks have compared the two signatures none of them have ever questioned why they look nothing alike.

[ECHOES]

This morning I drove to work behind a van/SUV that had a sticker on the back end warning to not Text and Drive. The sticker wasn't rectangular - apparently a piece had been cut off of the bottom.

As I watched her seriously tailgate the person in front of her, I wondered if the cut of part said "But Tailgating is Okay!".

[Inedible]

Originally Posted by lizardlady

[FONT=Book Antiqua]
It's pronounced "Ledasha".When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent."

It will always be Le-hyphen-a to me; not Le-dash-a.

[ibex]

Some parents try to avoid a strange spelling in initials because of the name. For instance George Abbott Griffin aka GAG. So they will change it to George Haybbott Griffin. Remember the H is silent. So which one was more complicated? I have no clue. Is it worse to have funny initials or a strangely spelled name with a silent h or is it harder to pick different names?

[Inedible]

Standard names result in making more money. Le-a can get a job more easily than Le-dash-a, but Lisa is going to beat both of them.

http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-E.../dp/0060731338

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by Inedible

Standard names result in making more money. Le-a can get a job more easily than Le-dash-a, but Lisa is going to beat both

Well of course - who is going to hire someone named Ledashdashdasha?? (Sorry couldn't resist!!)

Otoh, the Red Sox did hire Saltalamacchia, didn't they...