Comments on: Idiot Sightings: Be Careful Out There!

By: Snizzel

Snizzel — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:46:04 +0000

The Al airport line is bogus. They would not be instructed to ask such an idiotic questio. the actual question is “Did anyone eother than you pack your bags?”

By: John Harper

John Harper — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:06:37 +0000

I knew an 18-year old girl who had apparently seen one too many Domino’s “buffalo wings” commercials, where the buffalo would run by with tiny wings flapping on it’s back. When she saw a buffalo for the first time at the zoo…you guessed it…she asked, “where are his wings?”

By: Jase

Jase — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:46:36 +0000

I work as an IT technician in an office and I had to tend to one of our quality control team’s computers to set up her e-mail account. I told her that I needed to use her PC for a minute to set it up and she asked “Do you need to sit here?”
I replied, “No, that’s ok, I’ll just move the keyboard” and proceeded to rotate the keyboard about 45 degrees. Surprised, she remarked “Oh, I didn’t know you could do that!”
A couple of days later I brought it up in casual conversation with my HR manager. The expression on her face was priceless.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:01:27 +0000

I work at a convenience store, and a man walks in and asked me where do you keep your beer. I tell him that we don’t sell beer, and he replied ok, well where do you keep it. I sent him to the bar next door.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:53:19 +0000

I have one, When I was in the army some years ago, when we got into position each of the guns had to run a telephone line to us at the command post, well one wasn’t working so I shouted over to the gun to check the line for a break. My mate and I watched one of the gunners take the line in his hand and walk along till he was roughly half way to us there he could be quite clearly seen to be looking at the end of the line. He dropped it and ran back to his gun where he turned and shouted, “I followed it to the end and there’s no break!!” These people protect your country!!! I have many more like that, fortunately, or not, depending on your viewpoint!!

By: K-lee

K-lee — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:53:44 +0000

Major idiot sighting! I was studying for a test with a friend (16 at the time) when she got a piece of plastic stuck between her teeth from a pen cap she was chewing on. At first she looked worried and then in a relaxed tone she said, “it’s ok if I have to get my tooth removed, another one will just grow back.” After I explained to her that your “grown up” teeth don’t grow back she quickly returned to her panic state.

I wish that wasn’t true.

By: NickMacnab

NickMacnab — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:33:39 +0000

I was working at a call center for Sprint and this lady called in asking if she could pay her phone bill in cash. I told her that wouldn’t be a problem but that she’d have to go to her local Sprint dealership to do that. She then proceeded to get angry at me and snapped back “Well why the hell can’t I pay now?” I had to explain to her why you couldn’t pay a bill with cash OVER THE PHONE and she still didn’t get it. Being in customer service I couldn’t really hang up on her so I just tried to explain it to her until she got so mad she hung up on me.

By: deusdiabolus

deusdiabolus — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:46:09 +0000

More stories of encounters with the foolish and uninformed:

http://notalwaysright.com

By: kippi

kippi — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:15:56 +0000

Idiot Sighting at gabriel’s post:

“Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge” is a contradictory statement. There’s no such thing as assuming responsibility for something you don’t even know.

e.g. If someone puts something in your baggage without your knowledge, you would still answer NO because you DON’T KNOW ABOUT IT.

If someone puts something in your baggage WITH your knowledge, you would still answer NO because you KNOW ABOUT IT.

To the author: you can add this ‘gabriel’ to your list

By: gabriel

gabriel — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:13:16 +0000

idiot sighting to the author of this article. “The birmingham AL incident.” That is why they ask. Idiot. When you respond yes or no, you have just assumed responsibility for all items in your luggage. Idiot. You probably still don’t understand. Its okay if you couldn’t catch your own mistake in the proofreading of “clerks at Mcdees”.