What is the dumbest, stupidest, or rudest thing a stranger has asked you via a thread response, pm or e-mail?

So far, I don't think I've had too many really stupid ones. Maybe the most unsophisticated or rude one was a guy asking what I paid for one of my rifles I had for sale. Not too bad, but still, why would a seller tell the buyer what he paid for something. The seller's cost is irrelevant in a private transaction. All that matters is what you will sell it for.

Anyway, what dumb, stupid, rude, insensitive, hostile or otherwise ill advised questions, comments or statements have been sent you which which caused you to ask yourself, "What in the _ell what that person thinking?"

(Now that I've posted this thread, I hope one of my statements or dumb questions does not get listed here!)

WJ

ROTFLMAO! Dude you don't even want to know...lol. I could fill this page up

Cobra, I imagine you do have some whoppers you could share. However, you are too much of a North Carolina gentleman to risk embarrasing the guilty parties.

I think Cobra is referring to me mostly

See my member title? I've earned it

lol joe

No SaigaNoobie Your name didn't even cross my mind when I said that...well maybe just a little...lol.
Dude yours are mild compared to some... they know who they are....and I admittedly was quite rude and obnoxious in return. Being a Mod should not mean you have to take crap and not give it back.

And yes WJ you are correct sir. I would not do that.

One of the Dumbest ones I ever received was along the lines of:

Your drawing indicates the metal is to be .25" thick, however the written specifications call for 1/4" thick,..please indicate which thickness is required, .25" or 1/4".,........

The rudest person I've had contact on here is block and rightfully so. What as ass and don't even ask the screen name because I'll not say.

He who shall not be mentioned was pretty far out there with stirring the pot and generally being a pain in the ass...

There is no such thing as a stupid question.......................Just stupid people who ask questions.

Gas Giant: I think yours has to rank way up there on the scale for pure dumb questions. I give it a 9.75 using the 10.00 scale!

That's classic .

I haven't run into too many dumb mo-fo's here.

Along the lines of being ridiculous, yes. On another forum, I was selling something, and had a bunch of people asking for a $50 price-drop (on a $120 item, shipped) for a face-to-face deal. I would gladly knock off shipping (which came out to less than $5), but why would I go any lower? Some people amaze me.

So I'm on the front side of mountain at work along the old rail line No cell phone reception except one exact rock that I know I can get enough service to make a call. I get a voicemail, so its time to find the rock.

Its the registrars office for college, they are shit-canning a class due to low enrollment (well if you put a class on thursday night from 7:25-10:05 just how many people you think are going to sign up for that?). This needs to be told to me that day due to my need for that class to graduate, and my scrambling to find another class (the call came in about a week and half before classes were to start).

So I call the registar back, phone is crackling and I apologize to the woman on the other end, due to me being at work...balancing on a rock...on the front side of a mountain...get the picture? She proceeds to ask me if I'm near a computer. Click to view attachment

I had a guy ask me if it was possible for the roof to be levitating off of his mother's house. Apparantly the contractor that had looked at the problem suggested that it was.

I think the problem was permanently solved for relatively cheap. The first floor of the home had sagged, due to shotty engineering, and lack of jacks in the basement, thus pulling the upper plate for the first floor walls off of the second floor's floor joists, creating up to a 1"+ gap around various places on the first floor.


So I guess it wasnt the inet user's dumb question, so much as the half-assed contractors' dumb assed answer that shocked me.

Come to think of it, it wasnt a stupid question afterall, just a stupid explanation from some halfwit trying to rip off an older woman of her money.

Shouldn't that be 9 3/4????????

Or maybe 9 and 75/100th? Or maybe it was a metric measurement? This is too confusing, I wasn't a math major

Once, long ago, someone asked if there was a China

(some will get this..........others will have to search for the trueth)

I once had to run a service call... There is an office building about 7 stories tall. This building is on a hillside.
There is a lobby at "LL" on the North side that leadsto the North parking lot, and a lobby " L" on the South side that leads to the South parking lot one floor higher..
The elevators are arrainged with 3 on the East side and 3 on the West side of the lobby.

A very well spoken Lady maybe 40 or so, apparently sober wearing Expensive well tailored clothes, and by her vocabulary and demeanor well educated.........


Was HIGHLY upset. She claimed that she got on the center elevator of the bank on the East bank of elevators, and the elevator had "gone up and over the top and let her off on the wrong side of the lobby. AND SHE WANTED IT FIXED RIGHT NOW!

Had a longtime customer call one day to check on his order. I said, "I don't have any order from you this week." At which point he got really angry, saying he'd faxed one over, and needed it NOW. No problem-o, I told him, I can work it out with you, but I sure as heck didn't get the fax. He got quiet for a few, then said, "Okay, next time I fax an order over and you don't get it, will you call me and let me know?"

I waited in silence, wondering how long it would take him to figure that one out. Finally, he got it. "Oh... I guess that wouldn't really work, would it?"

I then told him if he'd call or e-mail after faxing, just to confirm that he'd sent it and I'd received it, we'd both be covered a lot better.

Mike

OK. I have one now. Yesterday a guy listed 1200 rounds of 5.45x39 at an incredible price. I was lucky enough to be the first to post an "I'll take it FTF" and promptly went and picked it up over my lunch break. When I get back, I had a message from a guy that lives 100 miles away saying "let me know if you want to go halves on the ammo" WTF!!!

Wow. Could anyone actually expect that someone would do this? It would be like standing in front of Walmart the day before Thanksgiving and saying "Hey, I noticed that you just bought the last turkey. If you are willing to cut it in two and bring it to my house I will pay for half of it". It would have cost me almost as much in gas to meet him than I payed for the ammo. It would have been one thing if the guy had said "That's a great deal you got. I'll pay you twice what you just paid and meet you locally" but dang, I just can't imagine what this guy was thinking.