Have you ever started to post a reply in a thread, then realized that what you were about to post didn’t really fit the thread? So rather than post something that might hijack the thread, you just don’t post at all?
Well, it happens to me a lot. So now, here is a thread for all those posts that you were going to post in another thread, but decided not to.
I’ll start. I have a story that I was going to post in this thread about tipping but wasn’t sure it was appropriate for that thread. Because what I did was pretty much the exact opposite of what they talk about in that thread.
To set this story up, I have to explain that my wife and I have a woman come to clean the house every other Friday. We pay her $50, which means when I have to pay her, getting a bunch of $20 bills from the ATM doesn’t cut it – I need to make sure I have a $10 in my wallet to go with it. Well, I discovered a while back that I can get $150 from the ATM, and it gives me a $50 and five $20s. So one Thursday morning before going to work, I stopped at the ATM and got $150 so I’d have money for the cleaning lady the next day and some cash for the weekend.
That day I went to lunch with a co-worker and it was my turn to pay. So I stuck a $20 in the little folder that the bill comes in, told the waiter to keep the change, and we left.
The next morning before leaving for work, I went to put the money out for the cleaning lady. I open my wallet and… shit, where is my $50? All I have is a bunch of $20s. I racked my brain trying to think of where I might have spent the $50 the day before, when it suddenly dawned on me: I must have paid for lunch with the $50 instead of a $20. :smack:
I had to go back to the restaurant at lunchtime and basically beg for my $30 back that I had accidentally overpaid the day before. It was incredibly embarrassing.
So anyway, that’s my story that I didn’t want to hijack the tipping thread with.
That was my thread, and your story would have been a great addition to the thread. It wasn’t a real rant or I would have posted in the Pit. But I have to say that I would’ve written the loss off as a lesson learned. BTW, did you ever consider paying the cleaning folks for two weeks at a time- an even $100?
I once accidentally added an extra zero to the check I made out to my gardener. He pointed it out to me and I said: Keep it, and consider it 10 months in advance. He’s a great guy and I trust him completely, so I figure it might help him out a bit. Now I do it every year. He gets a nice big check in January, and we’re good through the rest of the year. Call me crazy, but it works.
I did this with last gardener, before I moved. He was great at the gardening, but not so good at billing me. He usually came when I was at work, which made it worse. I finally just started paying 6 months at a time when I caught him.
Okay, somebody recently revived an old thread about malls and it got me thinking. I’ve seen Targets and K-Marts and Sears that were anchor stores in a mall. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Walmart as a mall anchor store. They always seem to be either stand-alone stores or part of an outdoor strip mall. Does anyone know of a Walmart that’s connected to a regular mall. (And just to be clear, for the purposes of this question, the Walmart has to have an entrance that leads directly to an indoors corridor of a mall.)
I’ll tell you what, he really made me work for it. First of all, it was the same guy running the place both days. Second, we were literally the only two customers in the place until just before we left, when a couple other people walked in. So it’s not like the place was so busy that someone leaving a $50 wouldn’t stand out or that he wouldn’t remember us. And he even said he remembered us, what we were wearing, what we ordered, but got really evasive when it came to remembering how much I paid.
I did sort of the same thing. We had a pizza delivered and I stuck the money plus tip in my shirt pocket (about $25). When the guy showed up, I got distracted by the smell of pepperoni or something, and reached into my pants pocket and gave the guy the wad of money there instead (about $65). I realized it almost immediately, and called the pizza joint to tell them about it. They were able to verify it with the driver and I got my money back.
I didn’t want to hijack the Kathy Griffin thread, but I’ve had ‘subtle’ death threats. After posting about my governors various shannanigans, my house started getting Lots of phone calls from restricted and spoofed numbers from older men who sounded like cops or excops.
Offering lots things like funeral services.
“You have a wife and kids. We have plan that’ll cover your whole family.” click
Or real estate services. “You sure you don’t want to sell? Now would be a good time for you to sell.”
Or calling my kids cellphone and asking to buy My car. “You sure you don’t want to sell it? Who knows what will happen to it in the future.”
Ok…Kathy Griffin not only was in Pulp Fiction…but she played herself. So not only did she see a guy run down by Bruce Willis, she saw a guy shoot a pedestrian!
Square One mall in Mississauga has, or had, an anchor Walmart connected to the mall. It was originally a Woolco, converted when Walmart bought Woolco in its move into Canada. That mall has been expanding and going upscale though – no grocery store anymore – so I don’t know whether it’s still there.
Same here, I can’t imagine returning and asking for money back.
I once had a nice dinner with a group of friends. One guy insisted on paying the check. I said I’d get the tip, but he didn’t hear me. So, my buddy left a generous tip on his card, and I left a pile of cash on the table. Server made out that night.
