The Stupid Questions/Comments topic

[Patient7]

I remember some time ago that some guy called my cell phone and got a wrong number.  When I informed him of this, he asked, "Are you sure?"

Am I sure?  Oh, I dunno, there might be some other people living in this house and using this phone that I don't know about- OF COURSE I'M ****ING SURE!!!  I told the guy that I had lived in that house since birth, which I had, and that no one ever lived there by the name he was referring.  Bah...

I once got a wierd call on my phone once, some foreign was just asking for Habib or someone like that so I said, "I'm sorry you must have the wrong number," to which he replied, "Who is this!"  Please allow me to forward this call to my a$$.

[Mr. DS]

A woman I work with got into a big discussion the other day with someone else about Brazil being the capital of South America. 

[Psycho Circus]

A woman I work with got into a big discussion the other day with someone else about Brazil being the capital of South America. 

HA! A guy once said to me that Sao Paulo was the capital of North America! 

[schmendrik]

Sad but true story: I once read about somebody in a college admission office refusing to take somebody's application from New Mexico "because the deadline for foreign admission had already passed".

[ghouck]

When I lived in Texas, we had a schoolteacher that lived next door that SWORE that neither Alaska nor Hawaii were states. I eventually asked her to make me a list of the 50 states, and she came back with 49, including Washington DC.

I think it's denial, , if they split Alaska in half and made each half a state, Texas would be the THIRD biggest state.

[Derf]

I think it's denial, , if they split Alaska in half and made each half a state, Texas would be the THIRD biggest state.

Yeah, but only until global warming causes Alaska to melt (sorry, old Texas joke). 

[akiratubo]

I worked at a Little Caesar's that was in a K-Mart for a little while.  One night, a fellow ordered a medium cheese pizza.  Nothing else.  I made it while he was out shopping and he came to pick it up.  I rang it up and he was about to pay when he noticed a combo deal on the menu.  It was for a medium one-topping, a two-liter, and a large crazy bread.  He said he wanted that.

I got him a crazy bread and asked him what two-liter he wanted.

"I don't want any two-liter.  I don't want that crazy bread, either.  I just want that combo price."

"Uh, sir, the combo is more than just the pizza.  If you don't want the bread or the two-liter, I'll just ring you up for the pizza."

"No, I want that combo price.  What's the difference in that combo and what I'm ordering?"

"You just want a pizza.  The combo is for a pizza, a two-liter, and crazy bread."

"Well, I don't want any coke or a crazy bread.  Just give me that combo price.  That combo is the same as what I'm ordering."

I told him once again that the combo was more than just a pizza but he insisted on paying the combo price even though he didn't want the coke or the bread.  I charged him the combo price.  If he wanted to pay more money for nothing extra, I figured that was his business.

[ghouck]

I think it's denial, , if they split Alaska in half and made each half a state, Texas would be the THIRD biggest state.

Yeah, but only until global warming causes Alaska to melt (sorry, old Texas joke). 

Haaaaaaah! , , funny, , , not even close to true, , but funny.

[Derf]

I think it's denial, , if they split Alaska in half and made each half a state, Texas would be the THIRD biggest state.

Yeah, but only until global warming causes Alaska to melt (sorry, old Texas joke). 

Haaaaaaah! , , funny, , , not even close to true, , but funny.

And since when has truth factored in to a Texan's opinion of Texas?

Relevant story to the topic: We were on a trip with our church youth group (many years ago; I think Paul was just starting to tour at this point. That's mostly a joke for Indiana) and stopped in at some fast food joint that we had been to a year or two earlier. One of the ditzier girls in the group remembered that we had been there (but not, apparently, exactly how long ago) and remarked, "Wow! We haven't been here since the last time we were here!"