How thick are some people?

Who knew there are so many perfect people here on mumsnet. It’s a regular Mensa gathering.

I'm wondering if you live in my town OP 😁

My local Maccys is also closed as its being extended (off a large roundabout in a retail park, near a dual carriageway that leads to motorway).

I haven't noticed people trying to get in, but it is definitely obvious it is not open and building work is happening!! 😂

If you work in customer service, you soon work out that the vast majority of the general population are thick as mince.

Sound like pretty good examples of 'thick' behaviour.

Our road was resurfaced a few years back. There were barriers and massive 'Road Closed' signs at both ends, the whole road was dug up and there were big noisy tarmac trucks and rollers everywhere, and some guy stood at the bus stop (which had a big yellow notice stuck over the timetable) for about ten minutes.

While trying to do some forward planning I once asked somebody what days Easter fell on this year, so I've no room to talk about anybody else

I think 'thick' is a bit unreasonable. Lots of people are very unobservant. You see it on the tube - 10 announcements saying 'the next train won't take passengers' and yet 20 people try to board, on autopilot.

I used to work at boots and at least one person a week injured themselves using hydrogen peroxide contact lens solution wrongly. Despite big warning signs and stickers slapped all over the box.

I'm sure we all do it to some extent

Road closed signs are one of my biggest sources of anger, not in your situation but when a 45 mile long road has a 'road closed' sign at the start with no indication of where the closure is drives me mad! Coming off the A14 at the A11 exit, 'road ahead closed', ie the A11, it's a 40+ mile long road, a major artery to other towns, it needed an indication of where it was closed. Rant over.

The answer to your thread title is: Very, almost unimaginably so

I had to laugh at the bluntness of a pre recorded telephone message another department had had to make. It basically said if you are calling for X Y or Z then you need to go online and do it.
If you stayed on the line and asked a member of staff about X y or Z they would simply hang up on you!

A year or so ago one end of our road closed. The road is u shaped and doesn’t go anywhere, it just comes off a main road and back on it further down. The main road was closed at the end of our road so there were signs at the other end saying our road was closed as you couldn’t get anywhere. I lost count of the number of people I saw driving down our road thinking they could bypass the closure.

Could be either poor signage or dense people.
During covid we had no less than 3 signs telling people not to enter the building without an appointment.
You would be amazed how many people walked passed all three signs and still tried to come in.
Sometimes our department closes before the building does. We lock our door and put a closed sign on. Still we get people trying the door and trying to get our attention.
I always mouth back we are closed, then turn away and get on with finishing for the day.

The one's around me are from the 17th July. It depends on if they are religious and have days off for that.

Well as many people are below average intelligence as above it. Think of the very very clever people you know, how much cleverer they are than yourself. Now think about people being that much less intelligent. There are a lot of very very stupid people around and it really is not their fault any more than it is the fault of someone who is ugly or short or whatever.

Vast majority of people are thick. It makes you worry when you think they can all vote.

McDonalds closed ?

Simply not possible.

The golden arches pump out burger after burger for the hungry masses.

That's why people see it with their eyes, but their brain simply doesn't register.

edit : Be thankful they are not knocking on your door demanding burgers.

Very is the answer to your title question! Signs never apply to Moi!

Because no amount of evidence will ever convince an idiot. Yes, many people are that thick.

@DivergentTris people do not read signs!
When our lottery terminal broke (it was the printer), we put signs up everywhere that we can only sell scratchcards. Plus every few minutes a colleague said loudly our lottery machine is broken. Still idiots queuing up for a few mins asking for a lucky dip. could they check their ticket or cash in a scratchcard. They moaned about it. They think we are the only retailer in the area that does lottery. I can think of four within a few minutes walk and ten more within a few minutes drive!

I'm not even surprised

I said to someone the other day "so Sunday, the 23rd of June"
Got back "what day is that?"

I'm not a walking calendar and I said SUNDAY

I do wonder about this too.

Our petrol station had one of the petrol pumps out of order. The signs often got ignored, so we put bin bags right over them with brighter signs and people still went up and started removing them to try and get to the pumps!
Big, massive push sign on the door, many still pulled. We also had many come to the glass asking how to get in the building, and even when pointing to the door, they walked past it and had to ask someone else, and yes, it was obvious and no they were not partially sighted or anything. People were also using the door during these interactions and they still couldnt figure it out.
Another came to pick her car up but didnt know what kind of car it was, what colour it was, what she'd brought it in for, who she gave it to/spoke to and couldnt see it in the carpark - turns out it the mechanic who dealt with her had parked it right by the door she'd just walked in and it was right under her nose.

Goodness I could go on and on, so no OP I'm really not surprised and they probably do have clear signage.

The thing is, you drive around that roundabout several times a week, so you know exactly what is going on with it, which lane to be in to get through quickest, and you want everyone else to know the roundabout equally well and not have to think about their options while circling.

Clearly the people causing problems for you have not been on the roundabout since the construction work started, were not aware the McDonald's is closed, are trying to work it out while driving in a tight circle with a car full of squalking children, and I would argue if lots of people are confused then the signage is not adequate.