I Gotta Quit Listening

April 5, 2007

There is no end to some people’s stupidity.  I was in Wal-Mart tonight listening to two girls who were searching for diet water.  One of them was complaining because none of it came unflavored.  Hello?

22 Comments

  • hayden says:

    humm. that’s really pretty frightening.

  • QuillDancer says:

    Hayden — I debated saying something, but I was afraid I’d either burst out laughing or give in to sarcasm. Better just to walk away.

  • Looking for the unflavoured diet water? Hmmm. Okay, it’s intense stupidity, but perhaps also a good marketting idea, eh? Buy water at one price, put a sticker on it that says “Diet” and sell it at twice the price. Oh, and it’s 100% fat free also!!!

  • Doug says:

    That’s just hysterical.

  • The Mumma says:

    You mean I’m getting FAT from the water I’m drinking?

  • QuillDancer says:

    Morgan — one of the girls actually asked if they were all fat-free. I didn’t put that in the post because I fugured no one would believe me.

    Doug — makes you feel all warm and snuggly and secure about the future of the world, doesn’t it?

    Helen — yes. Put the glass of water down and slowly back away.

  • John Linna says:

    Remember : They walk among us and they will procreate.

  • Rauf says:

    ‘Diet water’ ?? Wonderful……You have given me a good business idea Quilly, I think it will sell, can’t wait to get the patent. Who knows I may even get a Nobel Prize.
    Happy Easter Quilly !

  • Diet water?

    Good god.

  • polona says:

    lol! human stupidity really is infinite…

  • The Old Fart says:

    Remember it is better to walk away sometimes than to stay and comment. I wouldn’t want to hear about you having an accident laughing too hard at them :)

    Diet water, now I heard it all, I swear.

    A Happy Easter is wished for you

  • Diet WATER?! Do they actually MAKE Diet Water?!

  • QuillDancer says:

    Dr. John — your optimism and encouragement is inspiring. (You made me laugh out loud.)

    Rauf — here in America it is already on the grocery store shelves.

    Silver — now appearing in a supermarket near you.

    Polona — indeed.

    Bill — I found your comment in my Spam folder. I have informed it that you are not spam. There were two of them, but since they were almost identical, I erased one. And I pretty much decided there was no point in trying to talk sense into anyone who would actually buy “diet water.”

    Snay — see my comment to Silver. The fact that somebody thought up the idea of marketing water as a diet drink doesn’t surprise me, but I am shocked by the number of people who seem to be falling for it.

  • melli says:

    You know I can never find that diet water either! And NONE of my stores stock the fat free lettuce! I might have to move!

  • Per a comment earlier, human stupidity isn’t truly infinite, it’s just so vast that it’s easy to underestimate. Specifically:
    - Two heads are better than one, proportional to the square of the number of heads. So N people are smarter than one person by a multiple of (N)^1/2.
    - Two heads are also dumber than one, proportional to the square of the number of heads. So N people are N^2 times more stupid than one.
    This is why anything designed or built “by committee” can immediately be dismissed as useless.

  • The moral of my comment: Put four such young friends together at the store and they would have been searching for the fat-free, diet air.

  • The Mumma says:

    Quilly, I’m freaking out here. How did you know my name?

  • QuillDancer says:

    Melli — I find the fat-free lettuce is stringy, but the reduced fat lettuce isn’t too bad.

    Morgan — That was perfect! I laughed all the way through it, then read it aloud to OC.

    Mumma — you signed it on March 28th comment. Do you want me to remove it? WordPress allows that and I’d be happy to clean it up — and all the rest of this, too — just like it never happened.

  • cindy says:

    they must be related to this guy- I was explaining to him that he needed to supply our office with an inchXinch picture of himself in order to get a half-fare card. He replied, “Now this inch by inch picture, is that square?”

  • The Mumma says:

    No, it’s ok. I don’t think any creepy stalker people are going to find me from this occurrence!

    I’m in the habit of signing off on my forums and most of the time I catch myself here and delete it, but I guess I forgot that time.

  • QuillDancer says:

    Cindy — many people do not know that think should be a prerequisite to speak.

    Mumma — Just the same I’ll fix it. Then you won’t have r3ason to be uneasy — but I’m rather busy so I may not get to it right away.

  • Penguin says:

    There is a lot left to be said on teh issue of ear plugs…in teh right place at the right time…
    When in California, close to Hollywood Boulevard, there was a girl noisely talking into her cell in the most fake British accent you might ever here…everybody starred at her, when teh phone started to ring…….

    I laughed!

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