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**Azumanga Davo** · 14th March 2008, 02:10

Had a mechanic come up and ask me if K was after I in the alphabet...

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I told him it was in the vicinity of J, so off he went looking rather thoughtful.

Anyone else come across a lack of intelligence (bar those that actually occur in Vista/IE threads?

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**gadjo_dilo** · 14th March 2008, 08:19

I was witness at a stupid scene when a guy got on a tram and asked the driver : Is this tram going to the end station? The driver asked : Which end station? and the passenger said after a long thought: At its end station.

**gadjo_dilo** · 14th March 2008, 11:11

Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

I was witness at a stupid scene when a guy got on a tram and asked the driver : Is this tram going to the end station? The driver asked : Which end station? and the passenger said after a long thought: At its end station.

Oops. Correction as I missed a reply:
Passenger: Is this tram going to the end station?
Driver: Yes
Passeger: Which end station?
Driver (after a long thought): At its end station

**MrJan** · 14th March 2008, 13:31

I had a bloke argue with me about how to pronounce my name. I say Yeo as in Yeo Valley and Yeovil but apparently it's different when it's a surname

Good thing the bloke stood his ground because my family have been using the wrong pronunciation for years. Phew!!

: So now I know that it's Yee-o not the stupid way I've been saying, how stupid do I feel.

**slinkster** · 14th March 2008, 13:43

We get some crackers in the shop I work in. I had a lady point to the price sticker on something once and say "is that the price? It's not going to be higher or lower than that?" ... of course I smiled and said "Yes, that's the actual price", like it was a perfectly reasonable question but inside I was thinking "WTF?"

**Daniel** · 14th March 2008, 14:28

Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

I had a bloke argue with me about how to pronounce my name. I say Yeo as in Yeo Valley and Yeovil but apparently it's different when it's a surname. Good thing the bloke stood his ground because my family have been using the wrong pronunciation for years. Phew!!

: So now I know that it's Yee-o not the stupid way I've been saying, how stupid do I feel.

What a fool

My university lecturer was a Yeo as in Yo not Yee-o

**Azumanga Davo** · 14th March 2008, 14:44

Originally Posted by slinkster

We get some crackers in the shop I work in. I had a lady point to the price sticker on something once and say "is that the price? It's not going to be higher or lower than that?" ... of course I smiled and said "Yes, that's the actual price", like it was a perfectly reasonable question but inside I was thinking "WTF?"

Should have slapped an extra 10p on them and then "blame it on inflation, luv."

**Firstgear** · 14th March 2008, 15:08

My wife asked me a few weeks ago (she was making chili or something), "What's heavier, a pound of dried beans or a pound of soaked beans?"

She couldn't understand why I started laughing. The next day I told her mother what "her daughter" had asked me. She looked straight at my wife and said,"What's the matter with you. Of course a pound of soaked ones are heavier!"

Shows the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

**Sleeper** · 15th March 2008, 15:19

I work part time in a local pound shop, the number of times I've had people ask me "How much is this" is unbelievable. Read the bloody signs, they're only up all over the shop.

**Daniel** · 15th March 2008, 15:22

Originally Posted by Sleeper

I work part time in a local pound shop, the number of times I've had people ask me "How much is this" is unbelievable. Read the bloody signs, they're only up all over the shop.

I thought they were called pound shops because you pound people mercilessly to death if they ask prices. Or perhaps that's just me