May 30, 2005
NOT ONLY ARE THERE STUPID QUESTIONS,
THERE ARE STUPID ANSWERS.
AND THAT'S A GOOD THING.
So I have this little poll column that I do on Fridays now. It's called The Big Question. Each week, I peg a question to a bizarre item in the previous week's news and offer some odd choices in a poll.
Anyway, this week's question is online:
If you could call 911 for something trivial that annoyed the heck out of you, what would it be?
Be sure to vote early and often, if you please.
This week's question was bourne from an incident in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in which 86-year-old Dorothy Densmore was arrested for calling 911 more than 20 times in less than a half hour to complain that a pizza shop wouldn't deliver to her home and that they had called her a "crazy old coot." And when cops finally went to her house to tell her to stop calling, she allegedly went all batshit on the officer.
Anyway, the Smoking Gun has all the pertinent details, including the mug shot:
I puzzled for the longest time as to whom she reminded me of.
Then it hit me:
I'll go vote, but I felt compelled to share mine with your readers: People who arrive in the elevator bank after me and push the ALREADY LIT BUTTON. What - the way I pushed it wasn't effective enough? You're concerned that if you rely on my ability to push the button the elevator might not come? WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE???????
Posted by: jolie at May 31, 2005 12:15 PM