Some people enjoy it in small quantities on french fries and other foods. Others have it on sandwiches or salads.
Half a bottle is generously described as unwise.
I work at a printshop that is also a FedEx Authorized ShipCenter. No, it’s not a Kinkos, it’s an independent shop that offers the capability to ship packages via FedEx. Anyways, a gentleman comes in the other day and the following exchange takes place :
Co-Worker : Hello, how are you doing?
Customer : I’ll be doing great if you all can do international faxes.
Co-Worker : TheScogg, can we do international faxes?
Me : No, I’m sorry we don’t.
Customer : Oh, you’re kidding me.
Us : No, I’m sorry.
Customer : Do you know anybody that does?
Me : I don’t know anybody for sure. You might try the hotel down the road. I know they do domestic faxes. They may do international.
Customer : <incredulous raised voice> So you ship packages but you don’t do international faxes?!?!?
Yeah, sorry buddy. Just because we offer some arbitary service doesn’t neccessarily mean we offer some unrelated, arbitary service.
Well, turn it around, bud. Most mail center type stores (including Kinko’s, IIRC) can do international faxes and other corrollary services. (And the two don’t seem all that unrelated and arbitrary to me – what if I want to give or receive confirmation that my package is on its way/ has arrived?)
Seems to me the only laughable thing the customer did was mistaking some little podunk mom and pop store for a place that could offer the same level of service as its name brand competitors. Combined with y’all’s lackadaisical
attitudes, I doubt if he’ll be making that mistake again.
Here is my take on it, I have no proof whatsoever to back it up:
The stories are either 1) embellished (obviously) or 2) since he’s dealing with would-be lawbreakers, they are unlikely to ever complain to anyone. Nor do parents get involved because he seems to use techniques and methods that don’t leave any lasting marks as Gord/Narrator mentioned somewhere in there.
So without any skin or bones being broken with bruises even being a stretch, I would doubt the troublemakers want to seek legal recourse or would even know how to go about it.
I think it was mostly this bit. His techniques are frequently plausibly deniable, too, that is, he didn’t assault kids in front of a cop, things like that. He lived and had his shop in Canada, too. And when he showed up at a kid’s school, and he and the kid were in the principal’s or dean’s office (I forget which, and I’m not gonna look it up, I have other things to do tonight), the kid mouthed off, and the school official offered to leave the office for a few minutes so that Gord and the kid could discuss things further. So the authority figures, when they were involved, were sympathetic to Gord.
Many times his acts are simply things like forwarding a delinquent account to a collection agency ahead of schedule, when someone calls him up and starts giving him grief about trying to collect a legitimate debt. He also had a lot of fun with people who were trying to scam him in one way or another, and people who claimed various legal rights that they simply did not have.
And he DOESN’T tell us about any instances where he didn’t come out on top. He might very well have been sued into bankruptcy or something, but if he didn’t write about it, how are we going to know?
Bottom line, the website is a fun read, and it’s all about tasty justice served to those who desperately need it.
If they were on sale, she would have been foolish not to buy them. Between my 2 cats, they eat 3 cans of food per day. That’s 1.5 cans a day per cat. So if your mother’s cat at the same as mine, she bought 45 days worth of food. That’s not so bad.
I have a copy of The Arabian Nights that I picked up on holiday in the US a couple of years ago… so the answer is “Some people like the classics”, I guess. 
Since there were two of them my guess would be people who are having an argument about it – "There are so 380 instances of the “wine dark sea” “It’s 512 I’m telling you!”
I read the Anabasis in Malaga one time, but I took that with me.
I read the Odyssey on a summer vacation once.
I was on a cruise in the Aegean at the time, so it was a very appropriate book.
Hey, I just got both the Iliad & the Odyssey out of the library to read over Christmas break.
And I once read “The Rise & The Fall of the Third Reich” while on vacation in the Caribbean. And I saw someone else on the beach reading the exact same book, which was odd.
Something I overheard a cashier telling a customer on the phone:
“Yes, Ma’am, they do that. But you have to plug them in first.”
I know that now. All I could think of then was how weird my mother was acting and how humiliating it would be if anyone I knew saw me with her.
I certainly would, and I do. I don’t want your high prices, I don’t want your fancy service, I can wrap presents myself and discount stores often offer that as well, and most discount stores have a larger stock and greater selection. It’s the American way.
Let me know when you really want to enter the market as a competitor, not as someone with an artificially inflated self-worth.
The theory I’ve heard (and subscribe to) is that the Acts of Gord didn’t all happen to Gord. The theory goes that all of these things happened at a bunch of different stores, but it makes a better story if they all happen to the same guy.
You see that a lot in “exasperated shopkeeper” memoirs.
Sorry, Twickster, I didn’t see your admonition before bashing our esteemed OP.
But what does “checked out of this thread” mean? We can’t criticize anyone who isn’t actively reading/writing in a thread? How can you be so sure he/she isn’t coming back?
I understood we were not to attack people in threads not in the Pit. Disagreeing and attacking are different, but the first tends to switch to the last for some reason and the transition is hard to pinpoint.
How you’d be able to get past the smell in order to drink it straight is beyond me!
There’s an old saying that comes to mind here. High quality merchandise, excellent customer service, lowest prices: pick two, because that’s all you get.
I’ll take a boutique store that can deliver what I need and treat me like a human being over all the Barnes & Nobles, Walmarts, Targets, Home Depots or, for that matter RedLobsterChiliOliveDennybees, in the entire world.
Oh trust me, we offer a much higher level of service than our “brand name competitors” do. I’ve been told so on dozens upon dozens of occasions by our customers. We are very good at what we are able to do. I don’t appreciate you insinuating that we are lackluster because we don’t offer everything under the sun. Believe it or not, there’s some compromises that have to be made when you’re not backed by a billion dollar corporation. It hardly makes us “podunk”. But if you really want to trade blind accusations, I’ll point out that it’s people like you that are fueling our megacorporate economy that’s strangling our mom and pop shops. Sure, Kinko’s may offer a couple of more services, but good luck getting a custom made product to your liking at some McDonalds equivelant of a print shop.
And my attitude was far from lackadasial. I gave him the name and location of a place that could possibly help him out.
Really, my rant wasn’t even about him expecting us to fax international. I wish we could, but we don’t have the budget at this time for an international phone package when we would have demand for it maybe twice a month. My rant was with his bad attitude - like we had screwed him over for not having the service available.
Jeez, dude. This whole thread is about silly little things customers say and do. It’s full of incidences as equally benign as mine. Why the animosity towards me and the job I bust my ass at 8 hours a day?
I’m sorry if I’m being a bit venemous here, but it’s a small operation and I put every bit of my heart and effort into my job. I work hard and I don’t appreciate the only thing that means anything to me being blindly attacked by somebody that’s never even seen us at work.
well, people looking to get drunk do desperate crap sometimes. Who would want to drink an entire bottle of cough syrup, i have enough trouble getting a spoonful down … and frankly, i detest beer and dont see why anybody would drink that crap, but people will drink what they like =)
I just wanted to pop in and thank whomever put the link up to that website. The Gord is pleased, and feeling quite mirthful.
That shit is top-notch!