Strange people- how do they get along in life?

[Cheyenne]

I only had time for a quick lunch today, so I ran to McDonald's. I got my cup, put in ice from the ice machine, and filled it with lemonade. An older woman stood next to me with her empty cup, looked at me, and asked in all seriousness- "what if I don't want ice?" ???? My answer? "Then don't take it!" She still looked confused, filled her cup to the top with ice, stared at it a bit, and then dumped half of it out.

How do these people function in society?

 

[Mustang Sally]

How do these people function in society?

Umm, not very well? Did she possibly have some kind of mental disability? She apparently has some logic and problem-solving difficulties at the very least.

 

[Angel]

Very slowly.

 

[Cheyenne]

Umm, not very well? Did she possibly have some kind of mental disability? She apparently has some logic and problem-solving difficulties at the very least.

I have no idea... never saw the woman before. She looked "normal." But who knows?

 

[doctor_insanus]

How do these people function in society?

With a little coaching from people like you, apparently!

 

[Mustang Sally]

Sometimes I feel a tiny bit like that woman must feel, particularly in social situations. I feel completely inadept, watching and admiring all the people who seem to have it so together, going through life with ease, while I fumble with the little things. Like the ice machine... hehe

 

[Silverlily]

The town my store is in suffers from terminal stupidity. Seriously, no one thinks to THINK. Everyday I get customers who look at the tag on a garment and then ask me the price or size.

One of the kids who works for me (graduated in the top 5% of his class) mentioned his tires looked low. I told him it was because he had left the winter air in, it's colder and therefore compressed. Switch to summer air and they'll be fine. THE CHILD BELIEVED ME! (I stopped him before he deflated his tires.)

 

[Cheyenne]

One of the kids who works for me (graduated in the top 5% of his class) mentioned his tires looked low. I told him it was because he had left the winter air in, it's colder and therefore compressed. Switch to summer air and they'll be fine. THE CHILD BELIEVED ME! (I stopped him before he deflated his tires.)

ROTFLMAO!!!

Bet he'd enjoy learning about snipe hunting, too!

I got college graduates to go snipe hunting when we were out of town on my first job out of school. Nothing funnier than seeing a college grad holding open a brown paper sack while another one is holding the flashlight on it to light the way for the snipes to find it!

 

[Samuari]

Kit, sounds like the folks that I get to work with. But never get the top 5%.

 

[Silverlily]

My kids all come from well-to-do homes and good schools, and are all remarkably short on common sense. Guess they don't teach that anymore.

 

[Samuari]

You can't teach it. It something that you pick up from loving family that kids you into thinking for your self.

 

[ohiobbw]

The town my store is in suffers from terminal stupidity. Seriously, no one thinks to THINK. Everyday I get customers who look at the tag on a garment and then ask me the price or size.

I have that same problem. I work at a bookstore, more than once a day(usually about 20-50 times) I get someone asking how much a book costs! It's printed on the back!!!
*grrrrr*

Also, people who want me to find a book for them, but know nothing about it. They come up and say "I saw it on TV, it was written by some guy"
Well, that narrows it down!!

 

[scylis]

*singing*
people are strange
when you're a stranger
faces are ugly
when you're alone
women seem wicked
when you're unwanted
streets are uneven
when you're down

when you're straaaaaaaaang....

 

[Cheyenne]

How about basic math skills? I love to give clerks the correct "change." A bill for $16.34 and I give them a $20 bill and 34 cents, for example. Probably 40% of the time I get blank looks in return rather than $4 as change.

 

[morninggirl5]

Really mess them up and give them change to get a quarter back. If the total is $4.82 I'll give the clerk $5.07 so I get a quarter back instead of 18 cents. Amazing how they can't do the math if they have already entered $5.00 in the register.

 

[Never]

Ahhhh, I've given that blank look many times.
The store grades each cashier on their times, and the way to be fast is to be mindless. You sort of go into a zone where you don't think, you just mechanically mouth the script and punch in the information.

I remember being on an eight hour shift on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, it was constantly go - go - go.. At the end of the night a customer complimented me on my hair and I literally began to stutter as I tried to reply. It was scary, I couldn't say 'thank you'... The man thought I was an idiot and I left soon after that.

 

[scylis]

baah
that's NOTHING!
i worked as a cashier for 8 hours the day AFTER Thanksgiving, and a 9 hour shift the day after x-mas, starting at 7 am. i literally had to fight my way in the door! people were screaming "no cuts!! no cuts!!" to which i and others (calmly) replied "we're chashiers! get the fuck outta our way or you won't be able to get yer shit!"

aaaaahhhh... holiday sales... how i hate them!

 

[Laurel]

Oh, I could tell a story...but I won't. I tell stories like my grandma drives - slow, weavy, and taking the long way around.

Let's just say that my sister is a classic case of what you're saying. She's mentally ill now so she has some excuse, but even before the illness she wasn't quite there.

I remember when she was 18 she asked me how to address an envelope.

I've had to stop her from putting a plate with a knife & fork on it into the microwave.

She asked to use my iron once. After much discussion, I told her she could provided she 1) didn't use it on my bed (I had a little baby ironing board) and 2) she unplugged it when she was done. The very next day I come home and voila! there's the iron, plugged in & hot, on my bed.

I could go on, but I won't. You wouldn't believe me. It's just too unbelievable, and it's gotten worse since she went kookoo.

How does she live? Moving from one relative to the other, that's how. How does she get by on a daily basis? I have no clue. I sometimes wish I had a spy cam so I could watch her go through her day, but I think it would be just too strange for me. I'd rather not know.

 

[Stonedagger]

laurel

I know just what you need - happily - A HINDLICK!!!!!!
one for each cheek!!!

 

[Desert Amazon]

 

[scylis]

Re: Re: Strange people- how do they get along in life?

Sadly enough they procreate.

and, even worse, they do so in large quantities...