Things That Annoy You

[BobGrau]

...I suppose YOU just accept either good or bad food and don't say a word about it.

Well, yes. I'm British.


Sorry I called you a grouch. I agree with most of what you and others are saying about the service industry, a world I unfortunately know from both sides of the counter. I do hate fake niceness and so on. (Or maybe I'm sucking up to you for tips)

But I wish people in general would pay more attention to the way they spread their own moods around amongst other people. At the risk of sounding hippyishticist, we need to make a conscious effort to spread 'good vibes'.

[onan]

We all need a hug.


If we get mad every time someone is insincere... we are gonna be mad... quite often.


Have a nice day.

[stevesh]

we don't go back to the restaurant after that.

Seems to me that this is the point so many people fail to grasp. Unless you live in East Jesus, Oklahoma, you have many, many choices in restaurants. Why anyone would return to one where they received bad food/service is a mystery to me. As for talking to the manager, it isn't your job to help the guy run his place, and if he didn't care when you came in, he won't care when you leave, either.

[stevesh]

B) and Variation the Next, Screw Everyone Else, I'm OK: when after sacking up her purchases, the sack boy makes the corporate-policy offer of carrying her groceries out for her...which she accepts. Thus creating a back-up in that line as the check-out must input some, stop, sack; input some, stop, sack; etc. until the sack-boy returns 5 minutes later, with no tip, since that's corp-policy too. Now, I've sacked my own a bunch, but it's awkward reaching across, and I never can seem to bring just one plastic bag off the stand. I suggest to the long-suffering check-out clerks that the sack-boys not leave the line, since that is the bottleneck, and their absence creates a jam. But they wearily tell me abut the corp-policy...

You must live in a big city or shop at Whole Foods (or both). Sack boys have been extinct here for years. The plastic bags are on a carousel in front of the cashier and he/she does the bagging (during the breaks in her conversations with co-workers or other customers). Shame, because the chain where I shopped gave the bagboy jobs to mentally-challenged young folks for a few years before they eliminated the jobs.

Don't get me started about those dolts who bring their own 'cloth' grocery bags. There was a news item a few weeks ago reporting that ecoli infections are up dramatically in cities where plastic grocery bags have been banned. Seems you have to wash those 'look at me, I'm eco-friendly' cloth bags, and few do.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
      Even though I'm a longtime agnostic, lapsed Catholic(albeit a tribal one to certain extent) I still find myself adhering to food restrictions of Lent during fridays. I can't believe I'm a slave to old world superstition.

       But it's back to normal after the Easter Bunny arrives on 3/31.
         

[McPhallus]

I've long since forgotten what Lent was ever about and thankfully have no reminders.  My family are as lapsed as I am, and I've never known any catholics since junior high.  I think I might've given up Catholicism for Lent one year and just never went back.

      Even though I'm a longtime agnostic, lapsed Catholic(albeit a tribal one to certain extent) I still find myself adhering to food restrictions of Lent during fridays. I can't believe I'm a slave to old world superstition.

       But it's back to normal after the Easter Bunny arrives on 3/31.
       

[Eddie Coyle]

I've long since forgotten what Lent was ever about and thankfully have no reminders.  My family are as lapsed as I am, and I've never known any catholics since junior high.  I think I might've given up Catholicism for Lent one year and just never went back.

I'm surrounded by the flock. South Boston may be the highest Catholic per capita on the East Coast. I'm the only one from my immediate family who isn't still a follower. My siblings married Catholics etc...

[Usagi]

Don't get me started about those dolts who bring their own 'cloth' grocery bags. There was a news item a few weeks ago reporting that ecoli infections are up dramatically in cities where plastic grocery bags have been banned. Seems you have to wash those 'look at me, I'm eco-friendly' cloth bags, and few do.

Unless, like me, you live in a location where plastic bags have been completely banned.  Plastic bags are worth their weight in gold now.  You don't realize how useful those things are until you can't get them without going out of town.  It's one of the perks of going on trips, now. 


I think I'll go wash my reusable sacks...

[Usagi]

We all need a hug.

If we get mad every time someone is insincere... we are gonna be mad... quite often.

Have a nice day.

*sigh*  I'll take a hug.  I'm usually not quite so bitter and miserable.  I'm going through an exceptionally stressful period right now and I think ranting feels good.  I do hate that one cashier, though.  Damn.

[Falkie2013]

Unless, like me, you live in a location where plastic bags have been completely banned.  Plastic bags are worth their weight in gold now.  You don't realize how useful those things are until you can't get them without going out of town.  It's one of the perks of going on trips, now. 


I think I'll go wash my reusable sacks...

I have too many of the things.  I keep dropping off dozens of them at safeway.


It is annoying to be charged 10 cents for a paper bag and to have to drag around multiple canvas bags just to go shopping. They have biodegradable LARGE garbage bags, why didn't they ever do that with the shopping bags.


Awhile back I went into Food Maxx and grabbed a couple of stacks of unopened bags just in case. One thing they don't think about. When you have kitchen garbage, paper bags get soaked. I use the plastic bags in my kitchen trash can, I  suppose I should look for some biodegradable ones.

[Falkie2013]

You must live in a big city or shop at Whole Foods (or both). Sack boys have been extinct here for years. The plastic bags are on a carousel in front of the cashier and he/she does the bagging (during the breaks in her conversations with co-workers or other customers). Shame, because the chain where I shopped gave the bagboy jobs to mentally-challenged young folks for a few years before they eliminated the jobs.

Don't get me started about those dolts who bring their own 'cloth' grocery bags. There was a news item a few weeks ago reporting that ecoli infections are up dramatically in cities where plastic grocery bags have been banned. Seems you have to wash those 'look at me, I'm eco-friendly' cloth bags, and few do.

Safeway here, Lucky and Nob Hill offer help to me if I need to carry stuff out. They do it with everyone. I get it more because I walk with a cane.

[Falkie2013]

Seems to me that this is the point so many people fail to grasp. Unless you live in East Jesus, Oklahoma, you have many, many choices in restaurants. Why anyone would return to one where they received bad food/service is a mystery to me. As for talking to the manager, it isn't your job to help the guy run his place, and if he didn't care when you came in, he won't care when you leave, either.

Some managers care, others do not. Depends on the policy of the owners of the restaurant. But word of mouth nowadays does seem to matter with reviews of restaurants. As for choices in restaurants, it's not as easy as you would think. There are dozens of Chinese restaurants around here. It's finding one that is good that is the problem. 2 of our favorites closed in the last 2 years. One of them was due to SF Chinatown politics because it was around for 107 years.

[Falkie2013]

Well, yes. I'm British.


Sorry I called you a grouch. I agree with most of what you and others are saying about the service industry, a world I unfortunately know from both sides of the counter. I do hate fake niceness and so on. (Or maybe I'm sucking up to you for tips)

But I wish people in general would pay more attention to the way they spread their own moods around amongst other people. At the risk of sounding hippyishticist, we need to make a conscious effort to spread 'good vibes'.

By the by, I've been to England and Germany as a child. I liked it there and would love to go back. IF I were younger, I'd love to go to Australia. The women there are hot. For some reason hearing a young English or Aussie babe talk stirs my blood. They're sexy. 

[Nucky Nolan]

It's bad enough when people write "than" instead of "then". Now, there seems to be a new trend where people use "defiantly" in place of "definitely". I'm not a Heinrich Himmler when it comes to grammar and spelling, but this is ridiculous. I actually read a newspaper article that committed this word sin. "It defiantly is colder now than it was this time last March". It was something like that. Literacy is going the way of landline phones and heavy TVs. It defiantly is.

[PB the Deplorable]

It's bad enough when people write "than" instead of "then". Now, there seems to be a new trend where people use "defiantly" in place of "definitely". I'm not a Heinrich Himmler when it comes to grammar and spelling, but this is ridiculous. I actually read a newspaper article that committed this word sin. "It defiantly is colder now than it was this time last March". It was something like that. Literacy is going the way of landline phones and heavy TVs. It defiantly is.

The proof readers are always the first to go

[Juan]

When they come for the proofreaders, .... etc.

[onan]

The proof readers are always the first to go

Why do we need proofreaders when we have microsoft word?

[Sardondi]

Why do we need proofreaders when we have microsoft word?

Because we learn the bad habit of trusting spellcheckers.

And they don't no how to reed.

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[onan]

Because we learn the bad habit of trusting spellcheckers.

And they don't no how to reed.

Bwahahaha exactly
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didn't want to lose this part of your post.

[stevesh]

The phrase, "It is what it is." No shit.

[Nucky Nolan]

The proof readers are always the first to go

I can see why. Maybe Premier could hire a few.

[Nucky Nolan]

The phrase, "It is what it is." No shit.

I'll make a bad situation worse. "It is what it is at the end of the day." Those phrases are more ubiquitous than Gangnam Style and the Harlem Shuffle. Yet, they're more meaningless.

[onan]

Well... it is what it is.

[Nucky Nolan]

         That could be a week away . The local channel that has Seinfeld is currently in 1996-97 season, and since they run shows twice a night...the belly button episode(early 97-98 season) will probably air by next Thursday. Yay.

         As someone who watched the show from the start...I thought the last season was mediocre. But that's to be expected with sitcoms. The shelf life seemed to be 4 years...

The last season(s) took a weird turn. It went from everyday comedy to black or dark humor. First, George shrugged his shoulders after Susan died, like it was no big deal. Then, the four leads were revealed to be sociopaths when they were in jail. Still, it's one of my favorite shows. I have the DVDs to prove it. It was a pure comedy in that there were no dramatic or serious episodes like the one "Full House". There weren't many post-1975 sitcoms like that.

[BobGrau]

Well... it is what it is.

It makes you think.

[ChewMouse]

It makes you think.

That's true.

[McPhallus]

When I'm in a public bathroom, and I reach for the toilet paper, and it's so brittle that a tiny little section tears off.  And then I reach again, only to have another tiny section come off while the roll itself barely budges.  And it turns into a big nuisance just to blow my nose.

[The General]

The phrase, "It is what it is." No shit.

It's even worse when it's not what it is. 
That can be a serious existential problem.

[Falkie2013]

The last season(s) took a weird turn. It went from everyday comedy to black or dark humor. First, George shrugged his shoulders after Susan died, like it was no big deal. Then, the four leads were revealed to be sociopaths when they were in jail. Still, it's one of my favorite shows. I have the DVDs to prove it. It was a pure comedy in that there were no dramatic or serious episodes like the one "Full House". There weren't many post-1975 sitcoms like that.

I don't know why but both my gf and I found Seinfeld to be stupid. Tried to watch it and couldn't. Same went for Friends and the one with Kelsey Grammer after he did Cheers.


I did love Cheers tho. She hated it along with M.A.S.H.

[Falkie2013]

It's bad enough when people write "than" instead of "then". Now, there seems to be a new trend where people use "defiantly" in place of "definitely". I'm not a Heinrich Himmler when it comes to grammar and spelling, but this is ridiculous. I actually read a newspaper article that committed this word sin. "It defiantly is colder now than it was this time last March". It was something like that. Literacy is going the way of landline phones and heavy TVs. It defiantly is.

One of the things that gets me is how often those scrolling headline things on tv and the closed captioned things too are so blatantly misspelled. If I didn't know better I'd suspect that Snoory has a sideline job typing copy for them.

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