The Belgium news agency Belga reported in November that
a man suspected of robbing a jewelry store in Liege said
he couldn’t have done it because he was busy breaking into
a school at the same time. Police then arrested him for
breaking into the school.
I live with another woman who is about thirty years old. She is totally stupid. She has done a lot of stupid things and I am sure she will keep on like this until she dies. One day she was trying to fix the cable of a ceiling lamp because it was out of order. The first time she had an electric shock because she tried to fix it without switching off the main power. I thought that she would switch it off before she tries again but, for my surprise, she just wore a pair of gloves and tried again. I was amazed by her stupidness. I could not stand it anymore and asked her why she didn’t switch off the power and she told me: “You are right. That’s a good idea..”
At my last job, I was a do-everything. I fixed the copier when the secretary added more paper to the ventilation slots. I explained to the custodians that vacuuming the small pile of nails, tacks, and wire would actually be BAD for the vacuum. But to this day, I still have arguments with my boss over one topic. She believes that if you sit too near or too long in front of a computer, it will give you cancer. I cannot convince her otherwise, simply because HER DOCTOR told her this, and therefore, it MUST be true. What the hell is the medical profession coming too???
I worked at a Wendy’s in high school for a few years. One trick we pulled on this really dense guy was the “pickle count”. We had him stand in our big back freezer, counting pickles from a industrial size bucket into another one-to make sure our inventory was right. He was back there for half a shift until the manager found him!