Sometimes...'Sex' just makes you stupid

Reader: "WAH?!"

Did I catch your attention?

It was Sex weekend at the theatre...no we didn't change formats...we're talking Sex and the City. Quickly...it brought on the grandest of stupidity in the history of theatreness (I'm making up words).

Lady calls early in the afternoon on the Thursday before the movie opens and says that she can't figure out how to use Fandango (go to Fandango.com, click the theatre, click the showtime, enter your CC, print.) and asks if she can buy her tix over the phone and have us hold the tix until she comes. We don't do that, but we do it anyway. Now for stupidity... She calls back when I get to work and says...

"Hi, I bought four tickets over the phone and I didn't know you were in Daly City."
"We're not in Daly City, we're in San Francisco."
"But I google mapped your location and it says you're off of 280"
(Er...if you google mapped it would say San Francisco...)
"Well where are you coming from?"
"Martinez" (East Bay, probably about 30-45 minutes from SF).
"Well, yes, you come over the Bay Bridge, and when it splits you take 280, take the Monterey Exit"
"Oh, see, I didn't want to come that far, I was wondering if I could get a refund."
"Uhm, Okay, where did you want to go?"
"Emeryville." (This makes sense, that's only 20 minutes away...)
"Uhm Hold on" (I go into a violent, silent shaking, making my coworkers look at me funny.)

I do the refund and get rid of her...If you wanted Emeryville (510) and you call a 415 number...you're going to get a theatre in San Francisco.

Augh...Ultimate stupidity.

From the Traffic Desk

11:56PM MALE MAD AT VEH
11:55PM MALE OO VEH / BODYSLAMMING IT
11:55PM TRK RIGHT LANE

OO means "Out Of"

New job, new dumbness...road dumbness

Does anyone ever read this thing? Who cares?! Saw it as a feed on someones website...weird. Yes, I was Googling myself. I did it once, and I'd do it again!!!

Anyway, new job. "Traffic Producer". Which means looking at good ol' 511's traffic flow chart and the CHP media info and putting it into a database for on air reporters to read. Exciting, I know.

In two weeks, totalling 54 hours of traffic staring...there have been a multitude of animals on the road including, but not limited to...a racoon, a skunk, a dog, a three legged dog, a pitbull hit by two cars and still running around, more dogs, too many "mama duck and ducklings" to count, deer, cows (4 times no less), and one turkey.

Any way, with new job, comes new dumbness...my favorite dumbness..Road Dumbness.

This guy drops his mattress (a common occurance) on the left lane of a busy highway. He pulls over to the shoulder and the report comes in that he's trying to retrieve his mattress...yes, as if he's quick enough to dodge cars going 65mph+ to go 4 lanes, pick up his mattress and get back to his car without getting hit...

At least, if he gets hit, he'll have a nice cushion to land on...

Time to Weigh in on this China/Olympics/Tibet thing...

For the record, I am not anti-China, I am not pro-China, I am anti stupid.

This would be the stupid.

A few hours later, a confrontation between the two sides escalated to a physical violence, when a San Francisco man named Kevin Johnson, 48, walked into a crowd of torch supporters and began yelling, "Communists!"

The crowd encircled Johnson and the confrontation escalated when Johnson pulled a Chinese flag off a man's backpack. Then, someone grabbed Johnson's throat and another person punched him in the face before police intervened and walked him to safety.

Now i'm thinking "Man, that's a little too far, no need to thrown punches, although the guy shouldn't have touched that guy's stuff."

Continue...

Johnson continues to say that "I know this sounds racist, but if they want the olympics in China then they should go back to China."

Me: They didn't punch him hard enough.

For you to say that you know it sounds racist...AND STILL SAY IT, is stupid. For you to make that comment, its stupid already, now you're just plain dumb.

Full Article here (but they took out the quote).

I'm sorry, you had what's coming to you...even if it was a train.

A man in San Leandro, CA was killed when he ignored the flashing lights and the red and white stripped baracade signaling an oncoming Amtrak train. He was hit by the train. He was on his cell phone while he was hit. Are you THAT into your conversation that you miss the lights, the noises and the big mass moving in your direction? It's tough to say, but some people just deserve it...

Dumbness from Drivers

I have these questions to ask..

-How hard is it to use a turn signal?

-How hard is it to use emergency blinkers when you're double parked?

-If you can only go 40mph on the freeway, you shouldn't be on the freeway.

-If you're turning to the right...you're supposed to pull all the way over to the right.

-What's so fashionable about tailgating in traffic? I don't need a hood ornament thank you.

Dumbness from YOU!

No, I'm not calling you dumb, er, maybe I am, but we're all dumb in our own little dumb ways (how many times did you think you could fit the word "dumb" into a sentence?).

I'm glad that form thing worksish, it's being a little dumb pain but it seems like it's working 90% of the time...

I'm hearing of crazy drunk drivers smashing into walls (for the record the dumb part is the drunk driving part, the smashing into the wall, I feel almost sorry for).

Big one I overlooked is the infants at R rated movies...c'mon now, babysitter, or wait for the DVD. For the record, my theatre doesn't allow any children under 6 years old to be permitted to any R rated film after 6 pm, people look at our sign and say, "why would they?" Dumbness all around.

Also got one about grocery stores...I've got a ton of those too, do I see a list in the future? Maybe another print out to leave on the shelves of grocery stores...I'm getting all warm and fuzzy inside (too bad, it's raining which makes me cold and damp).

Hey Mom...I'm Poopular!!!

Looks like I got a little star next to my name. That means I'm a STAR for the week! (Sorry, too much of my radio station, STAR101.3, where YOU'RE the STAR!).

Sit down, relax, read, comment. First post way down there at the bottom is part of the interactivity. On the right there's a file that you can print out the "10 Dumb Things Done on Public Transportation" and put it on transportation, guerrilla media style (Michelle Wolf's class anybody?) Take pictures and send them in, and I'll put them on Flickr. Otherwise, report a stupid person using the link to the right!

Have fun!

On why..?

Working at a movie theatre has its..moments. Luckily I wasn't here for this moment of stupidity. Cinemark theatres has a advertising program going on with the National Guard. It is...ridiculous. You get a stupid little advertising/recruiting handout at the Box Office. Two of the popcorn bags have National Guard Trivia, and 10 minutes before your movie, you get a National Guard music video. Complaints? Of course, I don't blame them. This is what I don't get...

On Saturday, a lady, distraught with the amount of National Guard crap she was being force fed came up to the concession stand, told our worker, "I don't want to make a scene", and preceded to take the two National Guard bags off the display and run out the door with them. Well, to us, the bag is our inventory and a loss for us, so two of my co-workers ran after her. There was an ensuing tug of war. We won. There was the yelling of "it's only two bags" and a...well...scene. She was talked to by my boss about the situation and she was resonably upset. My question comes with...

-Why not TALK to somebody about it first?
-If you don't want to make a scene then...why do something that WILL make a scene..
-It's only two bags...yes, then what difference does it make to her? There are 1.5 million other ones just like them, what is running off with two bags going to do?

This is called doing without thinking, and what I consider idiotic behavior. The motive is not, the action is.

On Mayoral Races...

Sometimes stupid processes need to be given some attention. As I sit here, I'm listening to the KTVU Noon news. There's a tight mayoral race in Vallejo. There's a mayor. There's a recount, today, so the new mayor today, may not be the new mayor. Get it? Good. They said that if the recount comes out that this election is a tie the two men will...draw...straws...You read right, don't need to go back. They will draw...straws...I really don't know what more to say...

*Edit*
Why did I leave you with wrong information. Drawing straws, that's really dumb. How could you believe me? There are of course other options in case of a tie, reports NBC 11 news...

"If it (the mayoral race" were a tie, the winner could be determined by a coin toss, drawing straws, rock-paper-scissors or the lucky draw of a card."

*Edit x2*
Grosse Point and Mt. Clemens, Michigan actually flipped a coin, the winner of the coin flipped picked a piece of paper out of the box that either said "elected" or not.. in this past election, as a result of a tie..Link

Florida's state law says that to determine the winner of a tied election, the candidates will draw lots.

New Mexico's state law says that the winner may be chosen by a game of chance, as directed by a judge. This may include a game of poker.

The above is not Vallejo's law, it's California State Law...