Why do people act surprised when they do something stupid and it doesn't work out?

[Lumberg]

Imagine....

You are riding in an elevator. You arrive at your destination and the doors open. You start to exit when you encounter a guy who is entering the elevator..he is startled to have gotten an elevator which ACTUALLY HAS AN OCCUPANT! OMG!

I mean, don't people realize that elevators are not only used to go to another floor, but to actually get to that floor, too? Chances are that guy did the same thing not long ago...yet for some reason they think they are guaranteed to get an onoccupied elevator, and are SURPRISED to find someone actually trying to get out!

 

[Pablo]

huh?

I guess maybe he was deep in thought....I know this has happened to me.

 

[Gary Allan]

It's okay, Lumberg, as we age ....for those of us that are critical of our environment .. we tend to get hyper-critical of our environment.

It's a pre-geezer or advanced geezer thing. Don't worry ..it only gets worse.

 

[srivett]

The same sort of stupidity unfolds when travelling on public transit. I'm trying to get off the bus along with 50 other people but the fools on the outside try to push their way onto the bus first or crowd the doors. Like we need 100 people packed into a bus before anybody is allowed out. From now on I'm taking a flying dropkick off the top step of the bus.

Steve

 

[JohnnyO]

Used to happen to me all the time when I worked in a hospital and practically lived on the elevators.

"Two guys are on an elevator and one guy passes, everybody knows who did it."--George Carlin

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[moribundman]

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You are riding in an elevator. You arrive at your destination and the doors open. You start to exit when you encounter a guy who is entering the elevator..he is startled to have gotten an elevator which ACTUALLY HAS AN OCCUPANT! OMG!

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That's why I stand about 1mm behind the door when it opens. I then explode out of the elevator -- sort of like a jedi.

 

[clg305]

Man this is some funny stuff. We have guys drop kicking there way off busses and guys using jedi powers to explode off elevators I love it, the thought has crossed my mind several times LOL. Here is another one how about being at wal mart knowing exactly what you want and trying to get to it(oil of course) and then you have these ignant people just stop right infront of you take up the whole isle when it isnt neccesary and you think to yourself what if I lowered my head like a fullback(or bull moose whatever) and charged these people what would they do?

 

[moribundman]

I never go to WalMart without my trusty cattle prod, uh, I mean lightsaber.

 

[chas3]

actually, i believe america has had a drastic and sudden population density increase. i notice more and more people just stop in the middle of aisles and stare. they dont move to the side since "hey there can't be anyone else in this store". and if you dont paint a line down the center of the road (like a parking lot) "shouldn't i be driving down the center of the lane? if i drive to one of the sides someone might get by".

 

[brianl703]

I don't think that's due to a population density increase. I think that's due to an intelligence density decrease.

 

[clg305]

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Originally posted by brianl703:
I don't think that's due to a population density increase. I think that's due to an intelligence density decrease.

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Roger that.

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

"Two guys are on an elevator and one guy passes, everybody knows who did it."--George Carlin
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Yeah, but both guys deny it.

[ June 22, 2005, 09:12 AM: Message edited by: 59 Vetteman ]

 

[Gary Allan]

My favorite urban occurance is where the car in front of you strikes up a feature length conversation with a pedestrian and doesn't see anything wrong with it. I just don't understand how anyone can do anything that they wouldn't want to tolerate from others. I mean I can see someone just saying "screw them!" and doing it ..but actually see NOTHING wrong with it ...unless it happens to them. They appear to have no ability to integrate the two acts under the same lame banner. There's a distinct pathway block in some individuals. This is along the lines of the WallMart "stop and stare" without a thought to how it impacts others.

Are you sure that flouride is all that they put in the water??

 

[rjundi]

Some people have other things on their mind then what is happening inside the elevator. My mind is usually elsewhere and my first thoughts are not who is inside the elevator potentially. People think in many different ways and that is what makes this world so great.

 

[brianl703]

Lately I've seen more and more people just stopping in the middle of the through lane to make their left turn..

..at an intersection with a dedicated left turn lane (or two)..and it's a protected left-turn-only lane which means they'll be blocking traffic for an entire cycle of the light.

No, it's not a case of the left-turn lane overflowing. They didn't even get into the left-turn lane. It's like they realized at the last minute that this is where they need to turn so they just stop in the through lane and wait.

My brother has reported seeing two cars driving side-by-side very slowly in a 45MPH zone with the drivers talking it up.

 

[labman]

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Originally posted by brianl703:
Lately I've seen more and more people just stopping in the middle of the through lane to make their left turn..

..at an intersection with a dedicated left turn lane (or two)..and it's a protected left-turn-only lane which means they'll be blocking traffic for an entire cycle of the light.
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We have a big problem with that at the main intersection in this little berg. 2 lanes each way with a dedicated left turn lane for the north bound. The other street is 2 lanes one way West bound. Idiots want to turn into the gas station on the SE corner. They stop a couple of car lengths past the intersection and block the left through lane until they can make their left. Doesn't belong in this thread, since it works for them, but screws the people behind them. They should be forced to listen to Seanator Durbin speeches.

 

[Dan4510]

Stupid is as stupid does.

Dan

 

[chas3]

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Originally posted by rjundi:
People think in many different ways and that is what makes this world so great.

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as the saying goes "different and inferior ways". i guess the last thing on my mind when walking about it what i might walk into. if you have such limited spare capacity that a big think is going to make you amble blindly perhaps you should sit down.

 

[Gary Allan]

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Some people have other things on their mind then what is happening inside the elevator.

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(in Yoda voice ..jabbing with little walking stick)

Never his mind on where he was, humph, or what he was doing, humph.

 

[Kunery]

Then there's the person in the checkout line.

The cashier rings up all 147 items -- zzzttt beeep, zzzttt beep, zzzttt beep -- and a half-hour later, finally finished, announces "Ninety-seven dollars and thirteen cents please."

At which point, the customer who's been standing there for a quarter of an hour suddenly awakens. Starts to dig through purse for her checkbook. Digs, digs, digs. Dumps stuff onto counter. Finds checkbook. Doesn't have a pen. Gets pen from cashier. Doesn't know date. Cashier tells her. Slooowly and carefully engraves all pertinent info onto check . . . carefully examines document for accuracy . . . hands check to cashier.

"Your driver's license, please."

So then begins digging through purse for license -- same as above procedure for checkbook.

Do these people NOT KNOW they will have to pay for their groceries? While standing and standing and standing while their items are being rung up, do they NOT KNOW they will need their checkbook? And a pen? And their I.D.? How does this all come as a complete surprise to them, every single trip to the store?