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    As we call them in my house, Stupid Dumb Ass Questions. Post your favourites, from straight jobs, the clubs, the family, or anywhere else.

    Starting w/ the gems I hear in my tourist-centric retail job. Sadly, I am not making any of these up.

    Do you speak English? (Often asked even b4 they hear me speak to notice my accent)
    What's the official language here?
    Do you take American dollars?
    How is it that we don't need our passports to travel here? You guys aren't actually part of the US, are you?
    So, do you guys, like, actually have any schools down here? (Asked by a grown ass man from IL who had been bragging abt his Masters degree)
    So, how do all the cars get here? Are they just floated over? How else do you travel to the US since you're not connected to any mainland? (We have been connected to the FL mainland for over a century)
    Why are you adding on sales tax? All my stuff here is tax-free, right? Since y'all are part of the Bahamas?

    *** insert Spanish For Dummies guidebook phrases asked by English-speaking tourists who haven't noticed that the majority of locals do, in fact, speak English ***

    Do you have to be full-on queer to get residency here, or is 'just bi' ok? I'm fully straight of course, but I think I could fake being bi if I have to
    Do you guys actually get internet or phone service here? (No ma'am, all communications are delivered via carrier pigeon)
    So was English hard for you to learn? i would think it's not too bad since there is sm similarity to Spanish (implying that we still belong to Cuba/Spain so Spanish is therefore my default tongue)
    (in similar vein) How is it that you speak French? You guys still belong to Cuba, right??

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    I don't deal with the general public much, so I don't get too many of these hilarious ones.

    I do have stupid engineer questions.


    We have an "EMC room" for taking electronic test measurements for some of our product we build. It is essentially a Radio-frequency anechoic chamber meaning the room (nearly) blocks all outside RF radiation. At one point in the past, we self-retrofitted an existing room, but the room wasn't sealed very well, so it was very "leaky." So we scratch build a new, better room. And this one is sealed for RF radiation. Near perfect RF stoppage! Great? Great!

    So the geniuses using the new room ask me to come down. Mind you these are guys with Electrical Engineering degrees, several have Masters degrees. This will be important in a minute. Their complaint?

    THE WI-FI DOESN'T WORK IN THE NEW EMC ROOM, DO YOU KNOW WHY?

    In fact they go on to demonstrate that they can carry a laptop near the door, the signal is good at -54 dBm, then they show that as they cross the threshold of the doorway they signal rapidly plummets to nothing (-100 dBm and lower). Then they jump in an out of the room and demonstrate the signal does from 5 bars to 0 bars and back again.

    It's like they understand the "what," but not the "how" or "why."

    My response: Are you serious? Are you kidding me??!? Are you really that stupid? They still don't get it. So I have some fun with them. I ask, what's special about the room guys? Are the walls made of lead? You know element 82? (The walls aren't, but I'm trying to see if they can catch on). The engineers still don't get it.

    I tell them, "Um, the room blocks radio waves, doesn't it guys?"

    WELL YEAH, BUT WHY WOULD THAT AFFECT THE WIRELESS? IT USED TO WORK IN THE OLD ROOM!!

    At this point, I have to facepalm them. You guys do know that Wi-Fi uses radio waves right?

    NO? WAIT?!? IT DOES? ARE YOU SURE? BUT WHY DID THE WI-FI WORK IN THE OLD ROOM BUT NOT THE NEW ROOM?

    Because the old room was leaky and fucking with measurements.

    SO YOU MEAN, LIKE, UM, WE CAN'T USE THE WIRELESS THEN?

    Go "google" the 5 stages of grief and stop wasting my time. Sheesh. SMH.

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    That is priceless.

    They sound like Navy nukes.

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    Aniela, where are you from girl? I was assuming PR or the Virgin Islands from the sheer level of stupid I'm hearing, but even then....

    SDAQs, related to all the shit you've heard: where is *insert any state on the map*? Wow, you know where all of them are?

    YOU LIVE HERE MORONS! HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW YOUR OWN DAMNED GEOGRAPHY!? IT'S YOUR COUNTRY!

    Also, any time someone asks me why people from PR can run for public office because they thought you 'needed to be a citizen to do that.' *head desk* It comes up oddly often in my area.


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    She's in the FL Keys..when I saw that about the cars floating, that killed me! Really, they're that stupid>?


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    Quote Originally Posted by whirlerz View Post
    She's in the FL Keys..when I saw that about the cars floating, that killed me! Really, they're that stupid>?
    Apparently. Mainly that one ^^^^ & ones in similar vein are asked by cruise ship passengers whose boats tend to island-hop, I guess it nvr occurs to any of them to read up a bit on any of the areas on their itinerary. But yeah, last time I heard the 'floating cars over' question I couldn't help myself, I burst out laughing. I felt kinda bad bc they just had these totally innocent expressions.

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    I should be fortunate I didn't make her list. I mean, the other day I asked her if 'KW' meant Kuwait. If that's not a SDAQ, I don't know what is.

    KW vs KW:
    https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Key+...766!2d29.31166

    Here's another SDAQ: (I was interviewing a new roommate, from 2003):

    Me: Any other questions?
    Lena (applicant): Do your windows have the BEST GLASS?
    Me: Probably not, they're whatever windows the landlord used.
    Lena: No, not the windows. Did they use the BEST GLASS in the window? You know BULLETPROOF GLASS!
    Me: Bulletproof is not the best.
    Lena: Of course it is. BULLETPROOF is the most expensive. Because it stops BULLETS. Don't you feel unsafe here?
    Me: ??
    Lena: How will you feel safe from a drive-by shooting without bulletproof glass?
    Me: We don't get drive-bys.
    Lena: But what if you did?
    Me: But even with bulletproof glass, wouldn't the bullets still go through the walls?
    Lena: No, everyone shoots out the windows only. Didn't you know that?

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    ^^^^ I thought it was funny tbh, Dominic! I am familiar w/ Kuwait but it nvr occurred to me that sm1 might suppose KW = Kuwait.

    I really like your tenant interview story too. Told my coworker abt that today & we both got a good laugh out of it

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    I'm sure I'll think of tons, for now:
    Confused teenager at bmv to me: "Can blind people drive?"
    Me: "Yeah, they just don't get too far usually."
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    Close contact, for an hour, for $40? And I guess I'll have to make conversation with them too?

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    ^^^You worked at the DMV? Oh, I'm sure you have more stories than that if you haven't repressed them.

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    No during a license renewal, if I ever worked there I'd really have a drug problem by now. Those people are way strong.
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    My wife asks me to get her a broccoli and cheese baked potato from Wendy's (a fast food burger joint). So I order one in the drive thru window. As I pull up to the window, I over hear the worker ask the manager: "what goes on a broccoli and cheese potato, again?"

    His response: THE NAME .. IS .. THE INGREDIENT .. LIST !!


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