# Auuuu au-AU-GUST, Rant she must **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435 "2016-08-01T03:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/161 "2016-08-15T17:14:17Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Here’s an idea - if you don’t know what you want, don’t get in line or go up to the register. Stand back so people who DO know what they want don’t have to wait for your ass to decide whether you want a Super Double with bacon or a Mega Burger with pickles. Plus, you won’t have those pesky minimum wage suckers pressuring you to make a decision. That doesn’t work. I’ve gone into several fast food places and stood back far away from the lines at the registers to peruse the menu, and invariably (unless they’re all serving customers), the person at the counter will say “Can I take your order?” As much as I hate to admit it, I’m with cg16 on this one. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/162 "2016-08-15T17:23:57Z")
Don’t want to threadshit elsewhere, not going to see if this has been mentioned earlier, but here goes: That fucking green they are using at the fucking Olympics is fucking horrible. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/163 "2016-08-15T17:46:35Z")
> [@cg16](#): > > I felt the same way when I went out to eat and right after they bring your drinks back they say…“ready to order” That actually works fairly often for me and my friends when we wander out to some place like Boston Pizza for Saturday dinner. Often (I will admit not always) we know what we want by the time beverages arrive. Otherwise one of us says something like “ummm… not quite” and the server wanders off for a few minutes. Works well. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/164 "2016-08-15T17:59:49Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > There’s a breakfast place in the south where _all_ the waitresses yell something (Good Morning?) every time somebody walks in the door. My first experience there freaked me out. That’s a tradition at sushi restaurants. The sushi chefs yell greetings to you the minute you step foot in the door. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/165 "2016-08-15T18:01:02Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I think it’s part of a plan to get people to start using their own bags. The county I live in has a charge for plastic bags, so people have started bringing their own. I saw one guy with a shopping cart full of food, packing them individually into the trunk of his car without a bag. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/166 "2016-08-15T18:08:36Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > That doesn’t work. I’ve gone into several fast food places and stood back far away from the lines at the registers to peruse the menu, and invariably (unless they’re all serving customers), the person at the counter will say “Can I take your order?” As much as I hate to admit it, I’m with cg16 on this one. This is why I shouldn’t work a fast food counter. I’d get written up for not bothering the person who’s sweaty, or the woman with a book, or the guy who clearly has never been inside a restaurant and can’t fathom the purpose of the menus or even the counter. But when they did step up to the counter, I’d get fired for overdoing it, and saying \*\* “Welcome to Goodburger home of the Goodburger may I take your order please?”\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/167 "2016-08-15T18:31:34Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > That doesn’t work. I’ve gone into several fast food places and stood back far away from the lines at the registers to peruse the menu, and invariably (unless they’re all serving customers), the person at the counter will say “Can I take your order?” As much as I hate to admit it, I’m with cg16 on this one. “not yet” There, was that hard? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/168 "2016-08-15T19:11:50Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > That fucking green they are using at the fucking Olympics is fucking horrible. The one for golf, or the one in the pool? ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/169 "2016-08-15T19:21:10Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > The Jack in the Box’s and McD’s I go to have menus without pictures posted to one side or the other of where the cashiers are. They also have paper menus you can get on request. All of the McDonald’s anywhere near where I live only have video screens that you have to be at the counter before you’re close enough to read them. And to make things worse, the screens are mostly full of constantly changing pictures, slogans, and logos. The menu items are shown in a small font, and cycle just a few at a time. You literally have 3-4 seconds to read it before the display changes, then you have to wait 20 or 30 seconds for the “page” you were trying to read to come around again. And even with that there are a number of items that never appear on the display (regular hamburgers come to mind - for some reason the menu only shows cheeseburgers), even though they still carry them. They may have paper menus available on request, but they don’t go out of their way to make that known. And getting one would involve waiting your turn in line, getting the menu, getting out of line to read it, then getting back in line to wait all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/170 "2016-08-15T20:57:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > There’s a breakfast place in the south where _all_ the waitresses yell something (Good Morning?) every time somebody walks in the door. My first experience there freaked me out. There’s a pizza buffet place here that does that. Not a place I would go on my own, but sometimes I have to be sociable and go with a group. All of the staff, not just one or two at the register. Every time the door opens. “WELCOME TO CARDBOARD PIZZA!” Also one of the sub sandwich shops and another one that I can’t remember right now. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/171 "2016-08-15T21:00:05Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I think it’s part of a plan to get people to start using their own bags. At Aldi, you’re expected to bring your own bags, and bag everything yourself. it’s a trade-off for their low prices. So you just reuse the bags from other stores. The first time I went there I didn’t know, and had to dump everything into my trunk loose. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/172 "2016-08-15T21:25:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The county I live in has a charge for plastic bags, so people have started bringing their own. I saw one guy with a shopping cart full of food, packing them individually into the trunk of his car without a bag. Went to the grocery store with my cousins in Germany. They loaded up their cart, unloaded and ran the items through the checkout, loaded the cart back up, took it to the car and loaded the groceries into collapsible crates they have stored in the trunk. Got home, took out the crates, put away the groceries and put the crates back into the trunk of the car. I thought it was brilliant. (it was nearly ten years ago) They charge you for bags in Germany and they’re not cheap. I think there’s a few supermarkets in the Boston, MA area where you pick up a scanner upon entering the store; scan your items as you take them off the shelves, load them into your cart and then pay according to your scanner when you’re finished. Seems sensible to just pack them directly into your bags or crates and skip about five loading/unloading steps. I wish we could do that here. Better yet, skip the whole supermarket thing and buy your food from locals at your local market. Bring your own bags. 🙂 Plastic grocery bags are the scourge of the environment. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/173 "2016-08-15T21:57:13Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Plastic grocery bags are the scourge of the environment. They’re pretty handy to use when you clean out the litterbox, though. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/174 "2016-08-15T22:56:02Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > They’re pretty handy to use when you clean out the litterbox, though. Not really. They have tiny little holes that lets the smelly litter fall out and if you’re using them to grab the solids, a reusable scooper is much better. I use biodegradable bags when I empty my litter boxes - not perfect but better. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/175 "2016-08-15T23:25:38Z")
Like a million people inside and outside the flood zone, I’m relying on social media (Facebook, mostly) to keep track of the unfolding disaster in Louisiana. The AT&T cellular network there has been down since Friday, and it’s literally the only good option for many thousands of people. You would think, on pages dedicated to sharing important information (addresses of people stranded on the roof, boat launch locations, shelter locations, etc.) that we might could shut up about politics for a minute. Sadly, you would be wrong. Fuckers. Go bitch somewhere else. If you’re in Florida or Indiana and need to complain about the president, you are cordially invited to fuck right off to a different corner of the internet. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/176 "2016-08-16T00:00:09Z")
I hate those supermarket tricks when they post sale prices like $7.99. I am not thinking about $8.00 instead I am thinking of 7 and still seem to keep falling for the same trick.:smack: I need to understand $7.99 is nothing but $8.00 but I get so caught up in the first number and forget that.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/177 "2016-08-16T00:07:29Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Not really. > They have tiny little holes that lets the smelly litter fall out and if you’re using them to grab the solids, a reusable scooper is much better. I use biodegradable bags when I empty my litter boxes - not perfect but better. Plastic grocery store bags used to also be seen as a quick, cheap solution for people whose dogs like to drop a deuce while out for a walk. I can’t remember the last time I got a bag I would be comfortable using for this purpose…I think the bags are being made much thinner now, so they either have holes resulting from the manufacturing process, or develop holes/tears if you use them to hold anything heavier than a package of toilet paper. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/178 "2016-08-16T00:11:57Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Plastic grocery store bags used to also be seen as a quick, cheap solution for people whose dogs like to drop a deuce while out for a walk. I can’t remember the last time I got a bag I would be comfortable using for this purpose…I think the bags are being made much thinner now, so they either have holes resulting from the manufacturing process, or develop holes/tears if you use them to hold anything heavier than a package of toilet paper. Atleast Trader joes still has the big brown bag with the handle. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/179 "2016-08-16T00:17:52Z")
> [@cg16](#): > > I hate those supermarket tricks when they post sale prices like $7.99. I am not thinking about $8.00 instead I am thinking of 7 and still seem to keep falling for the same trick.:smack: I need to understand $7.99 is nothing but $8.00 but I get so caught up in the first number and forget that.:mad: Mt husband always rounds down, too, and I automatically round up. I think it’s just habit. But there’s a reason that I’m in charge of the financial decisions in our household. And speaking of households, my son and his aunt were able to get back to the in-laws’ home today. The pictures are devastating, and they were still luckier than thousands of their neighbors - water line was only about halfway up to the roof. The picture of my former father-in-law’s chair broke my heart, even more than the hundreds of destroyed books and such. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435/180 "2016-08-16T00:52:03Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Mt husband always rounds down, too, and I automatically round up. I think it’s just habit. But there’s a reason that I’m in charge of the financial decisions in our household. > > And speaking of households, my son and his aunt were able to get back to the in-laws’ home today. The pictures are devastating, and they were still luckier than thousands of their neighbors - water line was only about halfway up to the roof. The picture of my former father-in-law’s chair broke my heart, even more than the hundreds of destroyed books and such. So true, all I noticed was the 7 lol [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auuuu-au-au-gust-rant-she-must/761435.md?page=10)