Funny clueless people stories. I once worked for a woman whose father

[applegrove]

was brought up rich and not be that practical. When he married and moved into a house he went to the hardware store to ask if they had "that type of grass that does not grow...like my neighbours have". He was so out of touch that he did not notice people actually mowed their lawns. LOL!

When a friend and I were going to rent an apartment I asked my dad if he would cosign he got all frustrated and said "no - if I sign and something happens to you I'll have to pay". He had never rented an apartment in his life and thought it was some kind of scam. It worked out okay though...my friend's mom, a single mother, cosigned for us.

[freshwest]

1. "...if I sign and something happens to you I'll have to pay.." That's what cosigning's about, no?

[applegrove]

2. Don't know if he was cognitive of the year long only term of being responsible.

He just had a clueless kneejerk reaction.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. PAM Dirac reportedly told the story of ...

going off to college and learning that, at meals, students were expected to butter their own bread, something which in his household had always been done by servants. At first nonplussed, he gave it a try, and "discovered that it was not all that hard".

[Kali]

4. many who live in rural areas feel that many in urban areas are clueless

and I am sure the reverse is true as well

and it is true to some extent. even though I was mostly raised in the city I haven't lived there in more than 20 years. I forget how to behave sometimes. Start chatting people up in the big city like you almost have to do in a small town, and they will sure look at you like you are a little off.

the clueless that get me are the nitwits who want to move out here and "enjoy the rural lifestyle" and then can't understand why a coyote just ate Foofoo, or how come the road to their ranchette can't be paved. And then get mad when a cow gets into their flowers or OMG! leaves fresh dung on their driveway (nevermind they go pay for it in 50 lb plastic bags at home depot)

had a sister-in-law show up out here in white slacks and spike heels once. Gotta give her credit - she even tried to walk the cattle guard in them. One broke before the day was over, though. She and I have some similar personality traits, but man what a contrast in lifestyles!

[Silver Swan]

5. When I moved from a farm to a big city over forty years ago

I was surprised to find that people did not know the difference between what we called "field" corn and sweet corn.

Someone also wondered how they made popcorn. He apparently thought that regular corn had to be processed into popcorn.

[Kali]

6. and yet I have no clue how to order or eat sushi

they haven't gotten around to offering that at the Dairy Queen yet.:rofl:

(although we now have a Starbucks in the gorcery store - and I have no clue how to order THERE either:rofl: )

[KG]

7. don't worry, when it comes to Starbucks or sushi, you haven't missed anything.

[Kali]

10. I see these people ordering drinks for the cost of a whole can of Folgers

:wtf: :rofl:

[ashling]

11. how to order or eat sushi

got a bait shop nearby?

[Kali]

13. don't you need water and fish and stuff to have a bait shop?

none o' that wet stuff around these parts :P

[davsand]

8. Gawd knows that hicks like me have NO clue how to function in a city.

Yes, I can read a bus or train schedule, and yes, I can read a street map. I am capable of ordering a meal in a restaurant, and I can even fumble out my credit card to buy nice wine when I want to. I still have been called a hick, on occasion. I've never been real sure what exactly makes me a "hick" in some people's eyes, except maybe my preference for living someplace with a low population density, I dunno. I suppose it could be my preference for flat shoes and Levis, but If you've ever paid for Levis and good shoes, you know that stuff ain't exactly cheap. I tend to drive cars that are less than new, and that may put off some folks. I've never owned anything that wasn't American made, and I have always kind of figured that "German Engineering" thing pales in comparison to a Ford wagon that is still running with 250,000+ miles on it.

Frankly, I've always kind of wondered what some of those same people would do if confronted with a pissed off skunk and a reeking vomiting dog, or maybe a couple cattle standing in the middle of the road (or better yet--in the front flower bed...) I suppose those are also leaned responses, but I'm thinking the learning curve could be somewhat painful.

:shrug:



Laura

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. We had a neighbor who bought set up cement because it was on sale

He brought home a dozen bags of it and bragged to his wife that it was on sale. Every bag was as hard and as heavy as a rock. He said all they'd have to do was put a little water on it and they could use it. She pointed out that if that was true, then every time it rained, their driveway would turn to mush.

[applegrove]

17. LOL!

[LiberalAndProud]

12. In a computer shop.

A customer came in with his broken computer. The tech turned on the computer to view the problem. The computer started booting up, and the customer said, "How did you do that?"

When he realized that he had become so accustomed to turning on the computer at the power strip that he had failed to check to see if the computer was even on, he grabbed his computer off the bench and rushed out the door. He could move fast, too.

Poor guy was terribly embarrassed.

[Brickbat]

14. I dated a guy once who had a plant in his apartment that was falling out all over one side of the

pot, totally overgrown. I told him he needed to rotate the plant because it was growing towards the sunlight and it obviously hadn't been turned. "I wondered why it was doing that," he said, and a few days later reported back that rotating the plant 180 degrees had begun to solve the problem, and that I was brilliant to think of such a thing.

[woo me with science]

15. In a bookstore,

lady came in to complain that her book was printed upside down. Clerk calmly took the book, turned the dust jacket right side up, and handed it back.

[woo me with science]

16. Also, a neighbor of ours was throwing out paper clips,

because they had been stretched too wide and wouldn't hold the papers anymore. We showed her that you could just bend them the other direction.

[Archae]

18. I recorded some 78's onto CD's for a friend of my Mom's...

My Mom saw the 4 CD's I had made out of the entire grocery bag full of 78's, and my Mom said, "All those are on them?"

"Yup."

She had to change records everytime a song ended, when she was younger.

Now she and her friend got all these CD's that have only one side with 20 (or more) songs on them.