Idiot Watch Thread

[BigG]

Are we allowed to report ourselves?

When I first bought my Samurai, I couldn't figure out how to get gas in it. It was the first vehicle I'd ever owned with a locking gas cap and try as I might, I couldn't get it open. I'd turn the key 3/4 turn CCW just like it said and it wouldn't budge. Fianlly I realized that I had to turn the key back to normal just like on a dor...

Hey the manual didn't say to do that. You should take them to court for a misleading manual.


Yeah that's a post for the idiot thread. Those stupidity lawsuits.

 

[Ramsey]

Watch out for anyone named Big-G that can bench press his jeep while his wife changes the tire.

 

[ladywolf]

Now she wasn't so dumb. She was working you guys, or at least trying. Shit I still run into pumps at stations that it takes awhile to figure out.Or at least what order you have to do everything in to actually start to fill up. :laugh3:

hey when i first started driving, i had no clue how to work the pump. c'mon....i grew up on a farm where i just pulled up to the pump, pulled the nozzle off the thing...and turned the pump on to pump gas. PAYING for gas, and figuring out how to do it was a new experience. (yes, i know i grew up in BFE)

 

[Beej]

Watch out for anyone named BigG that can bench press his jeep while his wife changes the tire.

Be fair Rams. That was BIG-G, this is BigG...

 

[Ramsey]

Be fair Rams. That was BIG-G, this is BigG...

your right, i edited to corrcet that

 

[Beej]

Well, I guess we should give him time to prove if he's another BIG-G...

 

[BigG]

Yeah, I've heard of the escapades of BIG-G. Trust me, I am in no way a troll. I happen to like the name and have a personal reason for keeping it, and in this case, clearing its good name.

 

[Ramsey]

Good luck:thumbup: its gonna take awhile

 

[bjoehandley]

I've got a good idiot story......

When I first signed up to my current insurer she was telling us of a friend of her's and her husband's that they were going somewhere with in his stick equipped car. Every time they got up to a toll plaza he would pull into the manual lanes, even if the automatic lanes were open and empty. They decided to ask him why he was doing that, his answer was that he thought that since he had a manual trans car he was supposed to use the manual toll booths..........

 

[5-90]

It just amazes me how many examples of "people who should not go into public without an escort" we've come up with here. And, it seems that incidence of such is on the rise - perhaps the dumbing down of education, and multilingualism in public education is to blame?

5-90

 

[bjoehandley]

It just amazes me how many examples of "people who should not go into public without an escort" we've come up with here. And, it seems that incidence of such is on the rise - perhaps the dumbing down of education, and multilingualism in public education is to blame?

5-90

Unfortunetly this probably a long time coming. Dad was telling about a chemist that worked at, I think, Iowa State University back in the mid 60's. When it came to chemistry there was almost nothing this man couldn't do, but his wife had to go out and start his car in the morning before work and his secretary would have to do the same before he left to go home at night because he couldn't figure out how to start his own car!!!

There was also an Ames, Iowa cop and later he was an ISU security gaurd after he lost his cop job at about the same time period that managed to shoot his own foot and his cruiser trying to practice the quick draw with his loaded service revolvers on two separate occasions :dunce: When he was still an Ames cop hegave one of my uncles a ticket for laying rubber while pulling out of a parking lot and when they got to court this idiot swore up and down that my uncle smoked them so hard thatthe rubber was still on the road to that day. The judge actually called a recess and they went to the place where the ticket was issued and low and behold, no skid marks on the driveway or road were to be found. Needless to say, that ticket got thrown out