Except that half the population is below the median, not the average, so maybe George isn’t as high as he thought.
Yes, yes, a thousand times YES.
The blow dryer that I bought last week came with instructions that include “do not use while sleeping”.
I think that’s a throw-back to the days when the bubble-bonnet hair dryers were popular. My grandmother still has one, and yes, actually uses it while sleeping. In the morning, she puts her hair in rollers, puts on the bonnet, and crawls back into bed until her hair is dry. She tells me that lots of people used to do the same thing.
I guess the manufacturers were concerned that folks that did that would just lay the dryer on a pillow pointed at their heads.
Yesterday I was reading the manual for a Sony Handycam that included this helpful instruction:
"Take pictures of the sun in low light coditions such as duck.
I realize those are typos and not examples of stupidity, but I was tickled nonetheless.
And I included my own typo just to tickle others. :smack:
I’m so dumb that I brought a Walkman back to the store as defective- almost twice- because of dead batteries.
I got the walkman, used it for about a day, then a message came up on the L.E.D. screen with like a backwards E and some number (maybe a 3). And it was dead- dead as a doornail. I looked in the book- no dice. No code listed, no nothing. I looked on the web- no code listed, no nothing. I assume it’s the player since:
1- they were brand new batteries
2- the display still was working
3 if it were a low battery issue it probably would have said “batt” or somesuch
So I exchanged it, told them I wanted my batteries since they were new, put the batteries in the new one. Same error. I get a bad, bad feeliing. I buy new batteries. It works great. Apparently I had 1 dead one among the living.
So my point is that I’m pretty smart and I should have tried new batteries, but it never occured to me that it was the issue. I felt like a real idiot and was glad I discovered it outside in my car rather then in front of the exchange clerk.
So sometimes people ARE that dumb, and sometimes it would be good to have a few lines that say “Getting an error message? Try changing the batteries!”