quilt1950

Another story comes to mind. Phone call came in for associate who was not at her desk, so the call rolled to the secretary. The secretary tracked the associate to the restroom. The secretary came back to the person on the phone, and told him/her that the associate was in the restroom AND WOULD BE AWHILE.

I overheard this, as my cubicle was next to the secretary's desk.

Jan in VA

I was teaching a childbirth education class in Austin TX 4 years ago and the discussion got off on naming babies and changing mothers' last names.

After a few minutes I mentioned that I had renamed myself in my divorce degree. Ex didn't want me, I didn't want to be my mother's little girl again at my age, so I chose a name from my father's side, a name from my mother's side, and hyphenated them as my new last name.

As they all knew my new last name, one young lady asked me what my maiden name had been. I took a deep breath and said, "Well, Janet Jackson."

Her eyes got as big as saucers and she said (as God is my witness!), "Were you named for HER?!" :shock:


Look at my avatar. Don't I look like a white, 65 year old, cookie-making grandma to you? What the ----?!

My favortie come back is, "And these people vote." :?
Jan in VA :shock:

marknfran

I had to read all of these to my husband; got the greatest laughs!!!!Thank you so much; you lightened our day!! :thumbup:

cherrio

my oldest daughter loves M&M candies. Coming in from the grocery one evening I tossed a large bag onto her bed. Later she laughed"look mom, I close my eyes, reach in and ALWAYS get just the red and green ones!". uh Nicole; they are Christmas M%M's. she has yet to live that down

Hattie Frances

Well I just have to put my two cents in. This really occurred in my office. Years ago we used to get a lot of letters that were return receipt requested - acknowledging that their tax return was received by the department. After signing about 75 letter to taxpayers saying we did receive their tax return the supervisor asked a clerk to type envelopes and returns the letters. She types one label (address of the top letter) and put all the letters in a large brown envelope and sends it out via the U.S. Mail. Needless to say, about a week later, we received all of the letters back saying what idiots we had in state government.

cr12cats

funny but so true.
we had cable being installed in ca. a guy came and fussed at the guy there already why it was taking so long and told him just have to do this and a few other things and they left well still on one tv no cable. my husband came home and looked and he had plug both ends into the tv. i'm thinking the poor guy trying to do it right is being shown and chewed out by the guy that did that type of work and thought he was superior. hope that guy went to another company where he would be treated better. it was taking a long time cause the old cable wires had to all be done anew on a 2600 sq foot home so when the old guy showed up he just had to plug stuff in.

amandasgramma

Hattie's reminded me of another one!!!

Had our mail forwarded to another address (a mail forwarding service) for 3 months.
Decided to come back -- called our little local PO and said to not forward anymore. Returned home, picked up our mail, confirmed they weren't to forward our mail anymore. Over a 6 week period, we received very little mail. Figured they were still forwarding and confirmed with the mail forwarding service that they were still forwarding. Went to PO and:

Dee: You're still forwarding our mail. please don't forward anymore.
PO worker: No, we're not forwarding your mail.
Dee: I called the service and they said they got some mail 3 days ago that you'd forwarded.
PO worker: but we're not forwarding your mail
Dee: I haven't received my insurance cards or bills from our doctor, NOTHING, you ARE forwarding.
PO worker: Oh, mail that says "do not forward" we return to the sender.
Dee: But if you're not forwarding my mail, why would you return it??
PO worker (frustrated with me): But ma'am we aren't forwarding your mail.
Dee: right, you're not forwarding my mail, BUT you're returning mail that says to not forward
PO worker: yes ma'am, we ALWAYS do that!

I walked out
Went back in 3 days later after I cooled off and talked to the postmaster. Seems she took it off the dry-erase board but didn't put it in the computer!!!!!!!!!!

Heeeeee're your sign!!!!!!!

quilter68

Please send some more. I need more laughs!

annyroony2

I believe some of these "people" live in my area, just sayin'.

cr12cats

the last post reminded me when we first got here the mailman had put a stop on our mail and sent everything back to wherever it came. we got a call from our house insurance guy that was going to cancel our insurance cause they won't insure a empty house.we had one heck of a time proving we were here. we went to the post office they said it wasn't stopped so we wanted to know why we weren't recieving any mail. but the computer didn't show it was stopped anyway it took 3 months for us to get it straight dealing with the post office. we noticed we didn't have the mailman we had that whole time anymore. i hate when people say but the computer says----the computer only says what was put in so trash in trash out.
by the way between ca. and ks i think i have met most of those people on that list lol.