OT: Stupidity of the day

[Richard Kreiss]

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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 2:23 PM
> To: rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
> Cc: 'filePro'
> Subject: Re: OT: Stupidity of the day
> 
> On 2/11/2011 1:52 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> [...]
> > The VPN was down so no one in any of the facilities or offices had
> > access to email.  However, the IT department felt they should notify
> > every one of the outage.  How do you do this, by email of course.
> 
> I've heard stories going the other way.  The IT department receives an
email
> along the lines of "my e-mail isn't working".  The apocryphal reply is
"yes it
> is".
> 
> > Gripe number 2:
> >
> > Exiting off the interstate, the car in front of me exits and then half
> > way down the ramp turns on the directional signal.  At the bottom of
> > the ramp, the car crosses 3 lanes without signaling. How much effort
> > does it take to press that little lever down?
> 
> Worse, in some ways, are the people sitting at a red light, without a
blinker
> on.  Then, when the light turns green, they pull halfway into the
intersection,
> stop, and _then_ turn on the (left turn, of course) signal.
> So now you're stuck behind them until they can make the left turn.  Had
they
> simply turned on the blinker a few seconds earlier (or, FSM-forbid, before
> they stopped for the light in the first place), then you could have planed
for
> this, and gone around them.
> 
> [...]
Ken,

Even better are those in the left lane signaling for a left turn and then
turn right across a few lane of traffic.

Richard