Stupid Guest Tricks

hobie16 wrote:Did your store serve beer?

Which Radio Shack was this exactly? Details,we need details.

Cheshire Figment wrote:However, saw it had Maryland tags

From Living in MD and perfoming such jobs as security I realized that most people arent taught how to operate vehicles up here. They will leave them running, unlocked, parked on the sidewalk close to the door of a mall and blame security when there car is gone (impounded).

We must have a few Maryland drivers here in Hawaii. The leave their cars running with the A/C on while they run into 7/11 because they'd hate the temp to rise more than one degree. The stolen cars that make the news have babies in the back seat.

empire550 wrote:I realized that most people arent taught how to operate vehicles up here.

I race sports cars and have raced something since I was 15. I realized long ago that most people don't know how to operate vehicles, period. Nevermind all the stupid stuff they do parking.

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hobie16 wrote:We must have a few Maryland drivers here in Hawaii. The leave their cars running with the A/C on while they run into 7/11 because they'd hate the temp to rise more than one degree. The stolen cars that make the news have babies in the back seat.

Or here in the snowbelt, the people who leave their cars running while pumping gas because they want to keep the heat running... (Yes, please wait until *after* I've driven away to blow up the gas station, thank you...)

-Rob

Rob562 wrote:Or here in the snowbelt, the people who leave their cars running while pumping gas because they want to keep the heat running... (Yes, please wait until *after* I've driven away to blow up the gas station, thank you...)

-Rob

Oh please...no gas station has ever blown up because someone left their car running while they were filling up, at least not in the last 20 years. What has happened is that someone left their car in gear or as in the olden days of standard shift, left it in neutral, the car moved and cause a gas spill. Even then it wasn't likely that the gas station was going to blow up.

This is a stupid telephone trick but it has to do with gas. A lot of telephone cable is run through buried conduits. The conduits pass through cable vaults that have manholes for access. The vaults will occasionally fill up with methane gas. The conduits are supposed to be plugged to keep the gas from moving through them.

Some work was being done in a cable vault in the basement of a central office. The cable pullers left for the day and did not plug the conduit. Around 3 AM someone picked up a phone which activated some switches in the central office. Gas had risen into the equipment area and the resulting explosion leveled the building. The telephone user was pissed because he never got any dial tone.

Rob562 wrote:Better bet is to keep pressing the lock button. Most cars give a little chirp of a honk and blink the parking lights to confirm that it's locked.

That's the approach I took with my previous car. The alarm I had installed in my current car has a "car finder" feature where it chirps and blinks the lights without changing the alarm's status.

Freak wrote:Speaking of setting off alarms...for some odd reason, I used to have random people. Not customers--not employees, RANDOM people that would walk by our RadioShack at the mall and would for no reason at all...lean on cars and strike up a conversation. I mean, I understand if it was your car...but someone else's car?

Just how many cars can fit inside a RadioShack?

Just yesterday at work we had register loose power and everything stay a float. The register worked ok, but was slowing memory loss when punching in credit cards after ringing in a meal. The morning crew re-rebooted the register and it was ok. Around 2:30 pm was my lunch time. While I was gone, the afternoon crew had to re-boot it again. When I returned back to my location, my register was 101. The crew came out to fix it and discovered no memory chip= get the spear key and open it. My manager had to go and get it. I hope to return tomorrow to see it working.