That's where we come in. This week's update is just another fine collection of some of the dumbest questions members from the forums have heard in recent memory. As usual, if you have a stupid question that you would like to share, please submit it to .

I'd like to start off this week's update with a question that I over heard right before a business statistics exam this spring. Business statistics deals with nothing but probability.

Is probability going to be on the exam?

It's apparent that they let anyone into college these days. Had they made the effort to open their book at least one time before the exam, they would have realized that the entire course was based on probability. For the record, the probability of probability being on that exam was 1. I guess they failed the test.

Long time forum member Detta took a minute to share one of her own stupid questions over heard in a school setting. It's important to note that Detta is teacher, not a student.

During a practice end of the year test on the computer, the students discovered a button that tells you the answer to each question, with an explanation.

"Are we going to have that on the REAL test!!???"

It's no wonder why things are headed the way they are. We're training kids to think that the answers are always going to be given to them. Elementary-level children should be forced to watch the Saw series of films. The answers weren't given to them in the movie, so why should they think the answers will be just spoon-fed to them while in school?

Moving right along, Wunderkind was nice enough to share yet another series of dumb questions asked by some unlucky sucker who probably finally got what he was asking for:

Guest: Can I have the key to 401?

Me: Can I see photo id, please?

Guest: Why?

Me: It's a security policy. I can't give a key to someone whose name is not on the reservation, and I have to see some form of ID to confirm that you are on the reservation.

Guest: Why?

Me: So that I don't hand the key to someone's stalker.

Guest: What?

Me: We are a very high-end hotel. We have many high-profile guests stay with us. Also, it is our policy to protect the privacy of all our guests and provide a safe place for them.

Guest: Whatever, can you give me the key to 401? (still hasn't shown ID)

Me: Can you give me photo ID?

Guest: My name's not on the room. It's my girlfirend's room.

Me: Then you will need to have her call us to put your name on the room, and she will need to provide some proof that the reservation is her's.

Guest: Like what?

Me: Generally I ask for some conformation of the information that was taken upon check in.

Guest: Like what? Listen can you give me the key to 401, or what?

Me: Can you give me photo ID? (No, I don't have a problem sounding like a broken record. Especially to idiots like this.)

Guest: Look, bitch.... It's my girlfriend's room okay? I just want to go up there and say high, give me a key to her room!

Me: Not until you give me photo ID. (At this point I bypass mentioning just knocking on her door, because it's sounding questionable.)

Guest: Look you [insert explicatives here]! Can you give me a key to room 401?

Me: No.

Guest: Why not? It takes ten seconds!

Me: Because it also takes ten seconds for me to call security and I can't do two things at once.

He didn't get it. Security escorted him out. Moral: Don't swear, scream, or curse at the front desk clerk And don't try to catch your girlfriend cheating by asking for a key to her room in a five diamond hotel. We don't just hand out keys to every Tom, Dick, and Harry (Unless your girlfriend took the time to put Tom, Dick and Harry on the res. of course).

Yup. Sounds like that guy was being cheated on. Most likely he did the same thing two weeks earlier and it's finally payback time.

Our new member, and now banned new member, asked a pretty viable question. I guess an answer was needed to be given, though he might have intended it to be a rhetorical question.

honestly how fast can you ban someone??

BizB answered his question:

Asked and answered.

Here a good one I heard while working several weeks ago:

Do you have the internet here?

Apparently people are still under the notion that "the internet" is something that you can physically pick up and touch. They might get this idea from the NetZero commercial when their CEO says that all ISPs take you to the same internet.

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