There’s no need–of course you don’t wear shoes in the house. Especially when loading the toilet paper up and over.
Never pinch a waitress’ fanny
(they are getting ecchymoses)
And keeping your cats locked inside.
But only if they’re declawed and circumcised.
sigh Editing error. Rephrased, and didn’t notice the original sentence was still there.
You summed it up well. Personally, if I’m not drinking beer or wine, I have my liquor straight up or on the rocks. But if my wife wants something with four ingredients and I’ve stood in line for it, then I’m by golly buying it for her.
On the flip side, I would never order a blended drink or a complicated layered shot when the bartender is slammed. That’s just rude.
Actually, I appreciate getting checks from people who understand how to use them. If someone has everything but the amount filled in by the time I finish scanning their books, they can fill in the amount and we’re done without having to wait for the debit card to process, and it costs my store less.
When I’m on the other side of the desk (when I’m the customer, in other words), I’ll frequently say “no” when I’m in some huge chain store, because I expect the employee to be undertrained, uninterested, and probably in the wrong department. In a store like mine, however, if I’m looking for something, I’ll ask. In a 1,500 square foot shop, when you’re talking to the owner (or someone who acts like an owner), odds are good your question will be answered.
It just caught many of us completely off-guard. I can see taking my coat off if I’m going to be spending an hour in one store, but I’m a guy. I hate spending an hour in one store. If I have to shop, I move down the street like a well-oiled machine. Into a store, ask where to find what I need, buy it, move on to the next store. I don’t want to dress and undress every ten minutes. I want to buy my stuff and go home.
People take their coats off in stores? Huh. Actually, I do do that - when it’s -30ºC outside and the stores have the heat jacked as high as it will go - it’s take the parka off or melt.
This is doubly true in the UK.
Here are a couple more things that are sorta less bitchy (again, in a museum setting):
-Don’t be afraid to skip something if you don’t find it interesting. You don’t have to see every single little thing in the building; I can almost guarantee you’ll find something that you’re not terribly enthused about. If you’re reading a sign and it’s boring you…move onto the next one. We won’t be insulted. No, really, we won’t. (Well, it might also help that it’s near closing time and we want to go home, but…we definitely won’t be insulted.)
-Don’t be afraid to ask questions! We do not expect you to know what every single little thing is; that’s what we’re here for. It’d be weirder if you DID know everything, frankly. Okay, we may think your question’s stupid. But, first of all, we’re not gonna TELL you that. Second, just because a question is stupid doesn’t necessarily mean it shouldn’t be asked. If anything, that’s even MORE of a reason to ask it, because then your ignorance will be fought. Besides, I’d rather have you ask a stupid question than to leave the gallery not knowing its answer.
If a place did that to me then I would just get takeout (assuming the food is worth it) but then, if one of our party can’t be arsed to eat on time we just order on his / her behalf and carry on
Keep your eyes forward at all times. Minimum 12inches separation between people and maximum 18inches.
Do not make any vocalizations in a language other than the first language of the majority of the people in line. If this is unknown then keep all communications in a written form.
Never, and I mean never ever question the price that is rung up. If the product was marked incorrectly, you should have noticed that when the same product was rung up for one of the customers in font of you or in one of the lines to either side.
Finally, we hope you enjoy shopping at FU-Mart!
A drive through is for whoever wants to go through the drive through.
Have parents/teachers stopped telling kids that if they keep their coat on indoors they’ll freeze when they go back out? Not that I believed that anyway.
They told them that? What’s the rationale there?
I don’t recall anyone ever explaining it, but I reasoned that you might feel colder than otherwise when you went back outside. Plus, if wearing the coat indoors made you warm enough to sweat a bit, the moisture would chill you somewhat when it met cold air. Still, I didn’t believe the “OMG you’re gonna die of pneumonia!” propaganda. If you got warm enough inside to really sweat, you’d take the coat off.
I also didn’t believe my mom when she said if I opened my mouth outside when it was below 32F, my lungs would freeze.
Times a billion. Nothing made me want to put a portafilter upside some douchebarge’s head like them gabbing on their cell while I was trying to find out what kind of drink they wanted and the rest of the line was stacked halfway across the coffeshop.
Better yet: they stop in the middle of the isle and then stand next to their cart, gaping slack-jawed at the groceries.
I almost spat all over my keyboard. Well played.
People had some odd beliefs about the cold back then.
You forgot my husband’s favorite maneuver. We take separate carts, and I give him the list, while checking off the things that I’ll grab (my memory is much better than his). All right, we’ll meet up again somewhere in the store, while I have my cart parked parallel to the aisle. He will park HIS cart next to mine, completely blocking the aisle. Usually he has someone behind him, too, wanting to get past. I used to just give him The Look, but since that doesn’t even register on him, I now tell him that someone wants to get past, and can’t, because he’s completely blocked the aisle. The person wanting past gives me a look of relief. Bill looks at me in total amazement…he actually hadn’t noticed that someone was behind him. He doesn’t do this out of spite, he really is that clueless. And he’ll do it on the next trip. He might even do it again on the same trip, for that matter.
Speaking of clueless, as a general rule, if you flirt with someone who can’t tell you “Get lost, jerk” without that person suffering some consequence, then no, it’s not harmless flirting, and it’s almost certainly not welcome. Most people who work with the public are excellent at hiding their true feelings towards their customers, or they don’t last long. If you want to flirt, flirt only with someone who can walk away from you without consequences. Then you’ll see just how charming and welcome your flirting really is.
A few more that I’m reminded of from the update to the other thread and it’s correponding original article:
Don’t pay your $20 check with a $100 bill, especially if you’re my first table. Why the fuck do you even have a $100 bill? Who walks around with those? ATMs give out $20s, so this means you went into the bank to get money…ok, not too unusual, you had to cash a check. But why did you get $100s?
Don’t say you need separate checks if you really don’t. I can’t tell you the number of times a party, anywhere from two to twenty people, say they need separate checks, and then they all pay cash and don’t need change. Hey, newsflash nimrods: you could have done that with one check! It’s a pain in the ass for me to split checks for anything more than four people, especially larger parties that have desserts and appetizers. Even worse is when it’s not split with every guest on their own, but when seats 1, 4, and 7 are on one check, 2 is by himself, 3, 5, 6 is on another, and 8 and 9 on the last, oh, but 2 is also buying a drink for seat 1, but seat 5 is buying seat 2’s dessert.
FUCK YOU! Just have one or two people pay, and then either have the other people pay next time, or sort it out with some cash after you leave.
Also, when you get the check, PAY IT! This goes double (triple!) when you ask for the check! Why would you ask for it if you aren’t ready to pay? And if it’s later in the evening, or after the lunch rush, and you see me refilling the salt and pepper, sweeping the tables near you, etc… that means I’, not taking any more tables, and I need to to pay so I can leave. Stop being a jerk and keeping me later! I don’t demand that you leave, unless I’m a closing server and it’s past closing time, but otherwise sit there as long as you like after I leave, but just pay me so I CAN leave!
Tough. I like hundreds. They occupy much less space in my wallet. If the restaurant can’t keep enough change on hand to handle them, they should just go out of business right now. Late night or a drive thru is one thing. Inside is another. Suck it up, plate jockey. Where’s my change?
This is it, exactly. It’s not that any person here is necessarily a skeevy creeper–it’s that the object of the flirtation has no good way of getting out of the interaction if they so desire.
Maybe that group of friends has learned that if they don’t do separate checks, a couple of people won’t contribute enough money, and the server will get stiffed on their tip.