Best gulibility tests you have failed
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In 1998 I was working in the parts dept for our family motorcycle dealership.
The workshop guys had a new apprentice in who was getting the newbie treatment.
He was sent off to the local motor factors with 4 white bin bags, inflated and tied, full of "compression". Unfortunately for him we had ordered the wrong type of compression so the lad to was to collect the correct type.
The site of him duly heading off on his 50cc scooter with 4 white bags of compression tied like baloons to his back was hilarious, only trumped by the return sight of him with the 4 black bags of compression. The chaps at the motor factors must have struggled to contain themselves when he arrived and they exchanged the "compression"...
The workshop guys had a new apprentice in who was getting the newbie treatment.
He was sent off to the local motor factors with 4 white bin bags, inflated and tied, full of "compression". Unfortunately for him we had ordered the wrong type of compression so the lad to was to collect the correct type.
The site of him duly heading off on his 50cc scooter with 4 white bags of compression tied like baloons to his back was hilarious, only trumped by the return sight of him with the 4 black bags of compression. The chaps at the motor factors must have struggled to contain themselves when he arrived and they exchanged the "compression"...
I worked as a storekeeper on a building site for a while, during university holidays.
I met the various requests from one of the bricklayers' gormless YTS lads (totally without any "gorm" at all) for sky hooks with "none left", left handed screw driver with "not allowed to use those with the new legislation", glass hammer with "someone signed it out already - just use Windowlene", etc... all replies carefully thought about in advance to give the brickies a laugh in return.
But when he came for a long wait/weight and I asked him to hang around while I dealt with the other people in the queue, I started to feel bad. He was so "green". I told him he'd had his wait and then I watched his face for any hint of a lightbulb moment but there was none. Suddenly it wasn't funny anymore. This kid had never been challenged to think for himself and seemed to have no future. I sent him back to tell the brickies we hadn't any left and I refused to mess with that kid again.
They did have another lad who was far more "game" and he got the jokes as they were revealed to him. Over the course of the build it was obvious the brickies actually cared about him in their sort of way, and were trying to elevate him above whatever life he'd come from. The lad became more cynical/questioning when asked to fetch something but never lost his sense of humour. It wasn't long before they couldn't catch him out anymore and he just became one of the team.
I met the various requests from one of the bricklayers' gormless YTS lads (totally without any "gorm" at all) for sky hooks with "none left", left handed screw driver with "not allowed to use those with the new legislation", glass hammer with "someone signed it out already - just use Windowlene", etc... all replies carefully thought about in advance to give the brickies a laugh in return.
But when he came for a long wait/weight and I asked him to hang around while I dealt with the other people in the queue, I started to feel bad. He was so "green". I told him he'd had his wait and then I watched his face for any hint of a lightbulb moment but there was none. Suddenly it wasn't funny anymore. This kid had never been challenged to think for himself and seemed to have no future. I sent him back to tell the brickies we hadn't any left and I refused to mess with that kid again.
They did have another lad who was far more "game" and he got the jokes as they were revealed to him. Over the course of the build it was obvious the brickies actually cared about him in their sort of way, and were trying to elevate him above whatever life he'd come from. The lad became more cynical/questioning when asked to fetch something but never lost his sense of humour. It wasn't long before they couldn't catch him out anymore and he just became one of the team.
Ari said:
I have several friends who's girlfriends definitely couldn't get pregnant.
Guess what?
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the common denominator is all had decent jobs, nice cars,and seemed to be doing alright for themselves...
I know a young lady who gave up the pill and started taking vitamins to be more fertile. Guess what?
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the common denominator is all had decent jobs, nice cars,and seemed to be doing alright for themselves...
Her live in was so desperate that he started reminding her to take the pills everyday so she could get pregnant.
He figured it out after about 6 weeks, there was a massive arguement and that was the end of that.
When i was about 6 my dad convinced me to do all the chores in return for £28. Amazed i could ever be so rich at such a young age i did them gleefully.
When i asked for my pavement he went out in the garden, picked up two small stones.
Me looking confused he clarified- 14 pounds to a stone and you have two of them.
When i asked for my pavement he went out in the garden, picked up two small stones.
Me looking confused he clarified- 14 pounds to a stone and you have two of them.
Many years ago we had one lad who used to hang around in our group who thought he knew everything about motorbikes and was a real PITA, so we sent him off to the lokal motorcycle shop for a Powerband for his RS100 Yamaha. He went to about three different bike shops in town before someone spilled the beans that he had been Had.
Daniel1 said:
When i was about 6 my dad convinced me to do all the chores in return for £28. Amazed i could ever be so rich at such a young age i did them gleefully.
When i asked for my pavement he went out in the garden, picked up two small stones.
Me looking confused he clarified- 14 pounds to a stone and you have two of them.
Erm...When i asked for my pavement he went out in the garden, picked up two small stones.
Me looking confused he clarified- 14 pounds to a stone and you have two of them.
There was a contractor who used to do a lot of work at the place I worked at. He told me when he was an apprentice, his foreman was a bit of a knob. He was really disliked by everyone, but tried really hard to be one of the lads. One day, one of them told him they wanted to wind the apprentice up, and asked him to send him for a tin of tartan paint.
The foreman gave him a twenty pound note an sends him on his way, just as he is supposed to have his lunch break. He grabs the lads, goes to the pub and gets the beers in with the twenty pound note. When he got back, he grabbed the tin of paint they had labelled 'tartan' and walks into the foreman's office - "Here's your tartan paint...(bangs it on the desk), and here's your change (slams a handful of shrapnel down)!".
The foreman gave him a twenty pound note an sends him on his way, just as he is supposed to have his lunch break. He grabs the lads, goes to the pub and gets the beers in with the twenty pound note. When he got back, he grabbed the tin of paint they had labelled 'tartan' and walks into the foreman's office - "Here's your tartan paint...(bangs it on the desk), and here's your change (slams a handful of shrapnel down)!".
sparkyhx said:
got my 15 year old with "the word gullible isn't actually in the English dictionary".
That was a popular one when I was at school.One of my mates fell for it resulting in a lot of laughing and pointing. He came back 5 minutes later, with a dictionary, announcing that it had indeed been removed. Half the class rushed over to have a look
My mate's an electrician, and the boss' son is a bit daft. He had been doing the job 3 years and was about 21 at the time, when they were laying an armored cable across a yard. It was a used cable they had collected from a previous job, and so my mate said to the boss' son that he should check for the current flow arrow so they put it right way in. The boss came round the corner to find his son on his hands and knees cleaning the cable, and upon being asked what he was doing replied indignantly that he was looking for the current flow arrow. Cue one mighty boot up the arse and told not to be so f
king stupid and a few words with my mate who was doubled up in laughter.
Oh, and a personal one. I thought the stripper on Saturday night was a gullibility test, especially when she told me she took card. I failed, miserably.
king stupid and a few words with my mate who was doubled up in laughter. Oh, and a personal one. I thought the stripper on Saturday night was a gullibility test, especially when she told me she took card. I failed, miserably.
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