Share a "common sense isn't common" experience

[Fatman]

I'll start.

Witnessed an unbelievable example of this today. We had a snowfall that turned into sleet/ freezing rain.  I watched an employee of a bank walk from the parking lot down the ice covered, sloping sidewalk leading to the bank entrance. She did not fall, but did a fair impression of a figure skater right to the door.

A minute or two later, she reappears with a bag of ice melt, places it in the foyer, fills a small can and then walks back up the slope and spreads the stuff starting at the top while walking backwards towards the lobby. She fell, but this did not prevent her from sliding back down, refilling the can and repeating the process multiple times - never "getting it" that maybe she should spread from the bottom and advance onto the newly salted section. 

[Big Frank]

She probably didn't want to get salt on her shoes. 

[deamonpi]

hey it leaves an ugly white rim around the out-sole especially with shiny shoes.

[PoorSoulInJersey]

A friend of mine in college was an avid rollerblader. He just bought new protective gloves.

When he tripped and fell, he didn't want to scratch the new gloves, so he put his hands behind his back. As a result, he fell face-first into the concrete, breaking 3 teeth and turning his face into one large abrasion.

[ericire12]

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[tt11758]

A friend of mine in college was an avid rollerblader. He just bought new protective gloves.

When he tripped and fell, he didn't want to scratch the new gloves, so he put his hands behind his back. As a result, he fell face-first into the concrete, breaking 3 teeth and turning his face into one large abrasion.

LMAO   I haven't laughed that hard since the day the pigs ate my little brother!!!   

[PegLeg45]

Stopped to help a guy on the side of the road changing a tire years ago.
I walked up and asked if he needed help.
He said he'd been wrestling with the damned thing for over half an hour but couldn't get the lugnuts started.
I leaned in and looked and told him to flip the wheel around and then try it.
Well whataya know......on they went.


And he was a freshly graduated college man on his way to be the new sports editor for our local paper.

[m25operator]

I worked for a public shooting range for a while and saw some incredible stuff, Man walks in and says do you have some .44 magnum, we discuss the options, and he purchases some and go's out onto the range, He comes back 30 minutes later and asks if we have some .41 magnum ammo, Yes sir, we do, what bullet weight and style do you want? Then he comes back and says, these .41 Cartridges aren't working too well, only half are going bang, We talk for a minute and I ask if he has any of the fired rounds, yes, he says, and presents them to me. The fired cases were disfigured, off center bulging,  He was firing .41 mags in a .44, sometimes the primer did line up, and went bang. His enterpretation, was .44 mag, loudenboomer, .41 less loudenboomer, and probably would have tried .357 next and wondered why the cartridges fell out the end of the cylinder.

I cannot tell you how many people, would come to the shooting line, plunk down their gear and then start heading downrange to put up targets, while the firing line was hot and firing. We would call them back on the loudspeaker while calling an immediate ceasefire, explain the problem and ask them if they would like to wear a target on their back as they went downrange again.

Man brings in a scope to our local gunshop, wants to have it sighted in. I'm not kidding.

I'm just a shooter at the public range, and this young man first go's down range while every body is firing on the pistol line, We catch him quick and bring him back and explain wait for the cease fire, then after he starts firing, he has a .25acp cheap, like Raven, pistol, as he is firing I hear the pistol going full auto, during the cease fire, he asks me, " this gun works great on automatic, how do I get it to fire one shot at a time." of course I advised him correctly to send the firearm back, and this was not only incorrect, but could get him in trouble.

[Big Frank]

I've seen people go down range when people are still shooting too.

Back when I was married I took my wife to the range once. ONCE!!! She was shooting one of my pistols and it jammed. She turned around and had the gun pointed at my face, finger on the trigger, when she said told me something was wrong with it.

While I was sitting at a bench trying to shoot my rifle, my older brother stood behind me and started shooting his .44 Magnum over my head. The muzzle blast and bullets parted my hair with every shot and he wouldn't quit when I told him to. My whole family still doesn't understand what MY problem is.

[deamonpi]

I've seen people go down range when people are still shooting too.

Back when I was married I took my wife to the range once. ONCE!!! She was shooting one of my pistols and it jammed. She turned around and had the gun pointed at my face, finger on the trigger, when she said told me something was wrong with it.

While I was sitting at a bench trying to shoot my rifle, my older brother stood behind me and started shooting his .44 Magnum over my head. The muzzle blast and bullets parted my hair with every shot and he wouldn't quit when I told him to. My whole family still doesn't understand what MY problem is.

At least your family shoots, my brother and his wife are liberal nutjobs, and hate guns, one with a passion, the other apparently just because.