those stories read very well, and I would not be surprised that the kernel of truth is there..(It would be hard to write all those)...but a Google search reveals 28 copies, so I 'suspect' that they were sort of true at one time, but NOT all about congress members and such...Those folks need to be better informed than that.

I have personal knowlege of a few stories of that ilk, having worked in grocery stores and at a salvage yard and been a graduate teaching instructor in college. There ARE a few folks out there who simply are not equipped to think, or do not care to!

I heard an elderly lady complain on the radio that "daylight savings time would confuse the chickens"

I had several people ask me where to find the "aluminum angle iron"...(ok, that's a mild one)

I had one man REFUSE to comprehend about how he got his money back during the days of returnable bottles...(typing up the conversation would take hours!)

I KNEW a woman who thought she could make the water drain from her bathtub faster by squishing her hand up & down over the hole.

The stories about geography are being eclipsed by stories about computers and people who have NO idea about where 'files' exist, or what is in the menus at the top of the screen, or what that 'cup holder' is really for.

I think the world is simply too complex and moving too fast for many.