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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CAP1 on November 30, 2011, 10:36:05 PM
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i close up shop at 530pm. if i'm there past then, i'm either working on something of my own, or cleaning up.
tonight i was welding a bracket together for an adaptor i made to allow me to use my car pusher as a trailer mover.
so around 715, this lady walks in. i had the office door locked, and the lights out up there, with a "closed" sign displayed. one would think it'd be pretty obvious. she came in through the bay door i had left open for ventilation.
anyway, she was looking for directions. pretty simple. she was from new york, and on her way back there from philly. she needed to be on rt73. she missed the turn off for it, and ended up in my shop.
so.....she asks me how to get to the nj turnpike, and then breaks out a map, wanting me to show her where she is on the map. i tell her to put the map away, and listen.(nicely of course)
i tell her to make a left out of the parking lot, and follow that road for 5 miles. she'll see the sign for rt73. take rt73 south, and it'll take you right to the turnpike.
she gets her dam map out again. can you show me where we're at on here? no. i can't even see the dam thing. listen, i tell her. it's very simple(not quite so nice this time, although very polite still). it's only ONE turn. but now, her husbands in there too, contradicting everything i said.
i told them both one more time. it is VERY SIMPLE. turn left out of the driveway, follow THIS road for FIVE miles, and you will see rt73. taks it south, and you will see the turnpike.
now the crazy flake starts pointing the other way, saying this way? NO!! go LEFT(note i actually punched the keyboard typing left just then) as i point left the way i had previously done.
now the crazy person who should not possess a drivers lisence is pointing up kresson rd. this way? she says? it was at this point i told her i had closed an hour and a half ago, and that i would repeat one more time, then i had to finish my welding.
she sounded like she got it, but i then spent 20 minutes finishing up my welding, put the mig away, swept the floor, primed over the hot welds, and they were both still out in the lot trying to read that dam map.
i gotta wonder........does new york hand out drivers lisences to anyone with a pulse? i mean......how could she(or her husband for that matter) even figure out how to start the dam car, if they can't understand "left, drive five miles, and you'll see the sign"?
friggin $#%$&^%&$%$^^GFGDSG
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i gotta wonder........does new york hand out drivers lisences to anyone with a pulse?
Yes they do, I know a lot of idiots there who should not be driving (used to live there).
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More revenue to the state for every car on the road, the DMV charges for every little thing, it's not in the state's best interest to limit their customer base. Not even to mention fine and ticket revenue.
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Did you ask to see their permit for crossing the George Washington Bridge? I bet they didnt have one.
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I would have nodded, smiled, said "Yep, you've got it", closed the bay door and continued what I was doing. Either that or sent them into the heart of Camden :t
You can't fix stupid...
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I would have nodded, smiled, said "Yep, you've got it", closed the bay door and continued what I was doing. Either that or sent them into the heart of Camden :t
You can't fix stupid...
From the sound of it they would've ended up in Camden, Arkansas. And are you telling me a New Yorker is still using a paper road map while this country boy is googling up directions on a smartphone??? :rofl
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This morning a truck with two loads on it reversed into our roller shutters doors :old:
He was Italian and could not speak a word of English, he then asked me for directions as he was lost, I had the same conversation as above :old:
I could not be bothered about shutter doors and went in fir a coffee :old:
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as soon as they pointed to the map I would have nodded and gave them a :aok
let the next poor slob help them.Don't get me wrong I will help just about anyone as long as they are helpable
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I would have nodded, smiled, said "Yep, you've got it", closed the bay door and continued what I was doing. Either that or sent them into the heart of Camden :t
You can't fix stupid...
even though camden is only a 4 mile straight run down rt 70 from here.....i suspect she'd have gotten lost before she got there.
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They are a protected species (stupid people) so all they have to do is procreate and make more stupid people.
I liked it better when we could let mother nature cull the herd.
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The worst thing is for someone to ask for help,
then they either won't shutup to listen or contradict the advice.
I say since you seem to know everything, why ask me for help.
:cheers: Oz
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What I see is they asked you where they were on the map and told you where they were trying to get to...
...and you ignored half of the question and told them where to go.
Frankly, if i'm lost and asking for directions the first thing I'd like to know is where I am on the map just in case I get lost again trying to follow a stranger's directions (driving in unfamiliar place 'n all).
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What I see is they asked you where they were on the map and told you where they were trying to get to...
...and you ignored half of the question and told them where to go.
Frankly, if i'm lost and asking for directions the first thing I'd like to know is where I am on the map just in case I get lost again trying to follow a stranger's directions (driving in unfamiliar place 'n all).
They knew where they were on the map to start with and that didn't help them.........
Personally I don't have to help anyone do anything. I help because that is how I am. If a person does not want my help or wants to make some kind of rules and regulations on how I help...... they are flat out of luck.
The person asking for help in this case has probably never been away from home.
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They knew where they were on the map to start with and that didn't help them.........
Personally I don't have to help anyone do anything. I help because that is how I am. If a person does not want my help or wants to make some kind of rules and regulations on how I help...... they are flat out of luck.
The person asking for help in this case has probably never been away from home.
this is my viewpoint. beside that, again...where they were on the map was, and is totally irrelevent. it was a case of directions with 20ft of driving to turn left out of the driveway, then 5 miles straight run to rt73, then turn right. then another straight run for less than 2 miles to see the turnpike. if one needs a map for directions with only 2 turns, then that one needs to be somewhere besides on the highways.
i try my best to help people.....but when they can't follow simple directions.........
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If they knew how to read a map to begin with, they would not have gotten lost...
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I'd just say "back the way you came" and kick them out
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I personally would've showed them where they were on the map just to get them past that thought, hush up, and move on, but that's just me.
It might've been as simple as them not having any concept what '5 miles' looks like too.
Everywhere hands out drivers licenses to anybody with a pulse. Driving is no longer treated as a skill by most people, nor is it generally the first priority on the person's mind who is doing it. That's the scary part to me.
Wiley.
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I personally would've showed them where they were on the map just to get them past that thought, hush up, and move on, but that's just me.
It might've been as simple as them not having any concept what '5 miles' looks like too.
Everywhere hands out drivers licenses to anybody with a pulse. Driving is no longer treated as a skill by most people, nor is it generally the first priority on the person's mind who is doing it. That's the scary part to me.
Wiley.
bolded........this is true. i deal with a lot of jersey drivers that aren't much better.
i didn't show her where on the map she was, partially due to the fact it was irrelevent, as even without a "feel" for 5 miles, there's always the trip meter.....and even more helpful......there's signs. you know....those things that we use when we're lost?
and of course, i couldn't read the dam thing, 'cause my old guy glasses were up front, and i wasn't going back up there.
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Two nights ago on my drive home I got cut off 7-times... by the same driver. :rolleyes: I was laughing each time after the 3rd one and by the fate we were both heading relatively the same cource. It's that time of year I think, beware the idiots.
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here's tonight's.
guy pulls up in a brand new beemer 7 series. has a nail in his tire. i've got the shop lights out, as i'm up here finishing up paperwork, and about to leave. he comes in, and asks me if i can plug his tire. i tell him i can in the morning, but i've been closed since 530, everything's turned off, and everything's locked up.
know what he says? i'm a cop, can ya help me out? :rolleyes:
most cops i respect, and if he'd have come even just 30 minutes early, i'd have been able to help him out.......but c'mon.......
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The woman was driving?
What did you expect?
Should've gone out there and backhanded the man across the face until he had the sense to take the wheel.
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The woman was driving?
What did you expect?
Should've gone out there and backhanded the man across the face until he had the sense to take the wheel.
well, first off, i don't do that........unless he got physical first. then he's dogmeat. :devil
he had come in during my direction giving, and was having just as much trouble as she was understanding the directions.
it STILL amazes me that anyone at ALL could have trouble understanding directions which contained TWO WHOLE TURNS.
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about the time they started arguing with me I would have given them directions with 'my special shortcut' that put them somewhere in BFE :D
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You know what, I think I've heard of this couple before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEYEvxs9aWk (NSFW Language)