Stupid ppl/Stupid questions thread - add yours

That is funny and very annoying! Today at lunch we are at a coffee shop. Waitress tells people on some other table: To drink we have coke, fanta and diet coke (they are very limited on the drinks) and they reply, Do you have Sprite or Negra (something similar to Dr. Pepper)? Yeah, they have some, but they don´t want to sell it to you. Only coke, fanta and diet coke, get it!!!

The company I work at has Progressive in its name. In the complex there is also a Progressive Insurance. We have absolutely nothing to do with insurance but occasionally will get people who come into our office saying they have an appointment regarding their car. If you could see our office you'd KNOW we're not Progressive Insurance. It's like once they see the word Progressive, that's it.

LOL-I should.  I do have dark hair.

We used to have an inflatable bounce house/tent rental business. We closed it over TWO YEARS ago. Two flipping years people. I get phone calls daily asking "do you have Dora decorations?" or "can we get a tent for a family reunion?" So I very nicely say "I'm sorry, we went out of business a couple years ago..." To which the normal response (not exaggerating-MOST people respond this way) is "Well THANKS A LOT! That doesn't help me at all/what am I supposed to do now/well that's great customer service." FFS people.

My two oldest are 14 months apart.. ONE almost walking.. one clearly a newborn or a couple of months old.. and I got asked a lot if they were twins.. REALLY??? A newborn and one toddling around...TWINS??? Granted they do look a like (boy and girl) but really you can't tell the difference? 

why do pedestrians walk when I have a green light?? There's a cross walk but they don't use it and don't push the button. They don't even try - they just dart into the road like nothing. I know it's the city but it makes me crazy!! If I were a different person and I was having a bad day, I'd be tempted to speed up.

Not too long ago I was in the post office lobby on a Sat. afternoon. The registers themselves were closed for the day (gates pulled down), but the building is open so people can get to their po boxes and there is an machine for postage that I was using. A guy walks in the doors looks around and sighs heavily when he realizes that there was no one there to help him. So he turns to me and asks "Where is the mailing place?" I was confused and asked "the UPS store? Fed Ex? What mailing place?" He threw his hands up and rolled his eyes around the post office saying "The Mailing Place---where did they move to". Apparently he didn't know he was at the post office??? and that it didn't move...it was just closed for the weekend.

I also worked in a store that sold books and cd's...and we ALWAYS got the question of "Do you have that book by that guy? You know..the new one?" or "I was just listening to a song on the radio...what CD is it on?" (with out mentioning the book name, author, song title, or music artist)

As soon as some people find out that my 14 year old son and daughter are twins, they ask if they are IDENTICAL. Still! After 14 years. Don't they LOOK different to you. I just smile and say no, she has an innie and he has an outie.

My daughter and niece were born just one week apart. People constantly ask them if they are twins. One woman was adamant that only twins could look as similar as they do because "cousins aren't generic". Actually, in our family they do look pretty generic since our overbearing GENETICS made us all look so freakishly similar.  At the time, we just looked at the woman, smiled and moved on but I really wish I would have asked her if she meant generic or genetic.  Either way, it was pretty funny.

Why did I get an "F" in that class? I never turned in anything to be graded! The professor can't just give me an "F" with nothing to base the grade on!
(actually stated by a college student. He is going to have a tough time adjusting!)

Haha... the other day I was googling how to get rid of a Black Widow Spider and it's egg sac and there was a comment on there from someone who saw an episode of cops where someone called 911 asking for help to kill a Black Widow Spider.  I mentioned it to my 7 year old nephew and yesterday we were talking about it again and he told me to call 911.  Don't worry, I didn't call.

I once had a boss named Mike with an unusual last name. I was used to spelling the last name on the phone. One day I called to leave a message for him and the receptionist asked how to spell it. So I spelled the last name and then she asked, "and the first name?" Who doesn't know how to spell Mike?

PB

The pop story reminded me of my own:

I was sitting in a pub with my dad and he asked the waitress, "Have you got any Harp?" (a beer). She replied, "We've got lots".

Best answer ever.