The Friday Fives

fridayfiver

1. What's the last concert you attended?
2. Who is the best live performer you've ever seen?
3. You can invite 2 artists to your house, but they must sing together. Who are they and what one song will they sing?
4. Pick one to see: ABBA, Jimmy Buffet or Kenny Chesney?
5. Friday Freebie: Tell us anything you want about music!

flydayfyve

1) If you were going to describe yourself as a stereotype or a series of stereotypes, what would you say?
2) Now describe your SO or best friend as a stereotype.
3) One or both parents?
4) What stereotyping phrase or concept applied to you or someone you know drives you nuts?
5) What's your general opinion on stereotypes - hugely limiting lazy thinking or handy tools to paraphrase an abstract into something readily indentifiable?

thefridayfive

(1) What do you picture when you think of lawyers?
(2) What do you picture when you think of accountants?
(3) What do you picture when you think of clergy?
(4) What do you picture when you think of garbagemen?
(5) What do you picture when you think of a best friend?

( what I thought )

We have a new winner

Yes we have a new "dumbest question ever asked" winner. This one is an absolute riot - and in this case there was no language barrier as he is a good old born and bred in the USA English speaking person.

Employee: Can you check what address you're mailing my checks to? They're going to my daughter's house

--he then gives me the address ON HIS PAYSTUB. It agrees with the address I have in the system so I ask "Is this your correct address?"

Employee: Yes that's right but the checks are going to my daughter's house - she just moved and changed her address.

Me: It sounds like you have a post office problem.

Employee: NO my post office is fine but I want to know why you're sending my checks to my daughter's house

(we go through the whole verify your address schpiel again)

Me: Look, if that's the address on your check stub AND it is your postal address it's not my fault it's not being delivered correctly

Employee: But you've got to stop sending my checks to my daughter's house.

(then I look it up - he has DIRECT DEPOSIT).

Me: ummm sir - you have direct deposit - your checks are going directly into your bank account.

Employee: No they're not - they're going to my daughter's house ....

At this point I finally gave up and told him I would look into it.

UPDATE: I guess he called the other office to talk to his supervisor about it. Maybe said supervisor is busy 'splainin the facts of life (and paychecks) to him.