Face palm moments. ??‍♀️

Mar 6, 2019 6:29 PM

Sourgummie

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My husband and I went through the McDonald's driveway window and I gave the cashier a $5 bill.
Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her 25c.
She said, 'you gave me too much money.'
I said, 'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar back.'
She sighed and went to get the manager who asked me to repeat my request.
I did so, and he handed me back the 25c, and said 'We're sorry but we don’t do that kind of thing.'
The cashier then proceeded to give me back 75 cents in change

We had to have the garage door repaired.
The 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 made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower.
He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower.'
I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.

I live in a semi rural area.
We recently had a new neighbor call the local city council office to request the removal of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road.

The reason: 'Too many deers are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.'

My daughter went to a Mexican fast food and ordered a taco.
She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.'
He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg lettuce.

I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked,
'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?'
To which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?'
He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask.'

The pedestrian light on the corner beeps when it's safe to cross the street.
I was crossing with an 'intellectually challenged' co-worker of mine.
She asked if I knew what the beeper was for.
I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red.
Appalled, she responded, 'what on earth are blind people doing driving?!'
She is a government employee.....

When my wife and I arrived at a car dealership to pick up our car after a
service, 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 driver’s 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 did that side.'

Taxes are due soon! Here’s mine.

The change thing has happened to me. explained it in detail and this girl looked at us like it was the pythagorean therum.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TBF, everyone has dumb dumb moments. They seem to get rarer but more severe the smarter you become.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not going to lie, I've made mistakes like this before.

7 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

i just got the deepest sigh of the day....... pay attention in school, kids

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#1 is the cashier trying to avoid being quick-changed.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I know I should just accept that there are stupid people out there, but my real concern is that there are too many

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think the minimul lettuce thing might of been just not hearing correctly but otherwise I feel this

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

These were all painful to read. Thanks

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I called Accounts Payable to ask why they hadn’t paid a professor located in Alaska. “We don’t cut out of country checks.” God.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

these are fake right? they make my head hurt.

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I've had similar things happen to me.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've been seeing/reading these for years. Years, m8. Smh

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I’ve had the money one happen to me

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#5 cover your ass questions]

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a cashier, the extra money always throws me off since I’m so used to pulling out what the machine says. But those are just dumb people XD

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Was at a book fair helping preschoolers make wish lists. One of the other volunteers was writing down only the titles and not the prices. ->

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Her reasoning was that parents "don't wanna know". The wish lists exist so if parents want to send in money they can figure out how much.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Only, all of these are copied either from jokes or from old anecdotes

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No no, they reinforce my worldview, so they MUST be true.

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Hey look - it’s “Well, actually...” guy.

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Yeah I don't believe the deer one ever happened. I've heard it so many times from so many different places.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And?

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Well an awful lot of people in comments upvoted more than this one are using it as concrete evidence of the state of the world.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Forwards From Grandma lives on!

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Well obviously. I didn’t say they were mine.

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... Touché!

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I tried to tell my wife that Tigers are in my opinion stronger than lions, especially male Tigers. She said "but male Tigers do not exist" >

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When I asked with what female Tigers reprodice, she said " lions". Female Tigers mate with male lions and make tiger babies. We have a child

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fun fact: What she described are called "ligers".

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is it a tiger?

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Hey dont you dish out on government employees. We are just as smart as normal people. But you havent answered: why are blind driving cars?

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"co-worker" so as another government employee, I'm not sure what OP was going for, pointing this out

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Thats easy to answer. They cautiously use the bumpers to notify when their is something in the way.

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Got dippin dots ice cream at the beach and it cost an even $5.00. I handed the cashier a $10, she looked confused & grabbed a calculator.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No. No she didn’t.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

#2 doesn't even work in regular speech, as you'd say a half and a quarter, not the numbers

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Nice catch. Yup these are bullshit.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#1 is why people get yelled at working in food service etc. it’s not always the customer at fault.

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The airport security one makes sense. Anyone who says yes is a lying shitheap trying to pull a fast one.

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'Has anyone put anything in your bag without your knowledge?' 'Yes' *gets hauled off*

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FWD:FWD:FWD:RE:RE:RE:FWD:FWD:RE:FWD:FWD:FWD:RE:RE:RE:FWD:FWD:RE ...

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Great Aunt Ethel just discovered email.

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Thanks for the laughter I got from these.

7 years ago | Likes 592 Dislikes 2

But no thanks for the laughters he got from other posts!

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i only got tears

7 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Tears of laughter?

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Sorry for piggyback, but if anyone wants to hear the deer crossing thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCrJleggrI

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh my, that hurt to listen to. But funny as hell.

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I love it so much

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Had a flatmate who was selecting potatoes from the fridge to cook with, and dropped one on the floor, then threw it in the bin; I asked why;

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2/ she said 'because it's been on the floor...?' I asked her where she thought it had come from - she looked confused for a good while...

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Maybe she was eating them raw, unwashed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The ground. :p

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#1 I can vouch for this, I used to work as a cashier out of HS, & I had managers who couldn't do money-math without a calculator. Like I (1)

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Remember a case where customer asked for $55 out of EBT card(only allowed to do)& manager put 5.50. Told him customer still needed $49.50(2)

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& he told me, 'wait, wait' as he pulled out his phone to calculate '55- 5.50'. It's best to use register to process amounts, but he (3)

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(Manager) couldn't do mental math, he stared blankly at me when I first told him difference was $49.50 without a calculator. *RANT OVER* (4)

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At restaurant, asked for seating for 10 and said we were fine with multiple tables. Host says he can put 6 at 1 table and 3 at another (1/2)

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I asked if the 10th person would have to sit at the bar alone. Host thought about it, said they could sit with the 3 because it was a 4 top

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#5: The phrasing is often: "...could anyone have...", essentially asking if you've retained affirmative control of your luggage.

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7 years ago (deleted Mar 7, 2019 11:19 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Correct. That question was fake news.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ie: you cannot confirm if someone has altered your luggage, but you *can* confirm if there was a clear opportunity for it to have happened

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#2. In early 1980s A&W restaurant in an attempt to compete with McDonald’s 1/4 burger, introduced the 1/3 pounder. It failed b/c too many

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.customers thought that 1/3 lb was less than 1/4 lb. It took a focus group to understand that the ‘3’ was “less” than the “4”...

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That’s so upsetting

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Don't worry, it's a myth. If not using the metric system has any benefits it's that Americans are better than average at fractions.

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I suddenly have an idea for a 1/5 pounder burger to compete with McDonalds.

7 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Braums until recently did a 1/3lb burger too. So sad they stopped that.

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With #4 it’s a Mexican place. The employee probably was ESL. A little bit of lettuce would have been just as easy to say. Kinda BS!

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Light lettuce?

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Quiero solo un Poco lechuga, por favor

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Mexican waiter to 2 Jewish after they asked if they (Mexico) has Jews. "We have orange juice, lemon juice, but no Mexican Jews."

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Gonna chime in here, we have lots of Mexican places in northern Michigan, but very few Mexicans.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Millennial lettuce !

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Poquito lettuce. No mas!

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Yo quiero taco bell

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Lechuga

7 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

#1 has happened to me. The woman looked at me like I was stupid, shook her head, and handed me the change back without saying anything.

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I work retail in a high end store Ill usually ask for a penny or something so i dnt have to give 99c in change; they look at me like im nuts

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This is why I'm glad I learned and practices mental maths at school.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*practiced

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I did tractenberg speed math for years and after a 9hr shift I forgot the number 7 existed. It's a brain drain haha.

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Working retail I can assure you that I can do the math, but just maybe it’s been a fucking shitty terrible no good exhausting day

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And brain just doesn’t want to work. Also 50% of the time customers give the wrong amount to make it work cleanly...

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I remember when I learned this trick. I love getting even change back.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In Portugal we ask if the cashiers want exact change... Diferent culture I guess not exactly to avoid problems like this

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I love how when the cashiers do that, they shake their head at me (customer), thinking automatically that I must be the one who’s stupid

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Honestly you get robotic about it, the machine does it for you, you dont have to worry about doing the math. Suddenly someone is messing up

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2/your rhythm and your brain turns off and all it gives you is "you look like an idiot now" so you stare at the customer as you try to

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

3/figure put how to math again while feeling a line of shoppers staring at you, who probably all think you're dumb now too.

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(you are dumb now too)

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You should have asked her how she managed to graduate high school.

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Assumptions...

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Or middle school for that matter.

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Intellectually lazy folks handing out down votes in here. Heh

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1: Restaurant tab $48.75. I handed over a $50 and $20 bill. The waitress asks what to do with the 20. I said, "Three fives and a one." >

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2: She handed it back to me and said, "It's not my job to make change for you." My response as I took the $20, "Keep the change." >

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"It's not my job to make change for you." Uh, yeah, it is. That is literally part of your job.

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Yeah, it is. :/

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3: Edit: I meant "Three fives and five ones." Anyway, when she figured out that meant she could only get $1.25 tip on a $48.75 tab, she >

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4: then said, "If you give me that $20 bill back, I'll make change." D'oh...

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Too late at that point... Life lesson for her.

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I had a total of $5.99, gave the guy a 10 and a 1. He stared at it for a few seconds, handed the the 1 back then counted out my $4.01 change

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You mathed up

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7 years ago (deleted Mar 6, 2019 11:02 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I think he meant a 1 dollar bill.

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You're right. He didn't use dollar sign or cent sign with either the 10 or the 1. His change should be $5.01, obviously.

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