By getting a different job.
Meh. More Blue Sky Cola for me.
Next time go to the Denny’s in Fresno.
clinks glasses
Me, I’m enjoying some all-natural fruit of the vine. No fructose corn syrup, here.
Blue Sky Cola… right up there with American Spirit cigarettes…
“But they’re different! They’re natural!”
:rolleyes:
The suckers sure seem to burn out faster than incandescents, at least in my house.
Maybe I’m just not thinking green enough thoughts, and they resent it. :dubious:
Hilarious. I’ve been lectured about thos cigarettes before, too.
“Dude, you can’t smoke those Marlboros, man, they’re loaded down with chemicals!”
“But your cigarettes cost five bucks a pack and mine are only three…surely if there’s lots of addittional stuff in there they’d be cheaper than just straight tobacco, right”
:dubious:
And using the image of an American Indian on their packs of smokes…c’mon!
“Me Big Chief Smokun Peace Pipe. Me Only Smoke Natural Tobacco. Me Only Speakum With Every Word Capitalized!”
:rolleyes:
Do they have straws in this mecca of environmental consciousness? Because plastic straws don’t biodegrade for, like, ever.
I was in Wal*Mart looking at recycled toilet paper (no, not recycled THAT way), and saw that the “green” choice was twice the price of my regular asswipe. It turns out I don’t want to save the planet enough to double what I’m paying for toilet paper.
I don’t think toilet paper is one of those areas that are really a net gain, recycling-wise. Sure you can buy recycled paper products that have been *turned into * toilet paper, but if they are more expensive than Brand A that satisfyingly wipes my ass clean then fuck 'em. Toilet paper degrades quite nicely anyway, thank you.
Don’t see how the waitress was rude. He asked for a Coke, but they serve Blue Sky. He asks why, gets, “It’s natural” (a claim made by the manufacturer). For this she gets comments about bacon. When she offers, “Coke pollutes” she has her personal driving decisions called into question. The girl could not win with the OP, who was obviously in a snit because he could not have his AM Coke and was taking it out on her. He should have been having this lofty debate with the store owner, or at least the person who makes decisions about what to order, not the poor waitress. She dealt as best she could with a customer whose complaints she cannot properly address, lest she experience more personal questions about her habits, none of which is relevant to the store owner’s decision not to sell Coke.
Basically, give the waitress a break. She’s got no power in this situation and you are asking her questions whose answers seem to lead you into debate. Pity her and steer clear of antagonizing her about things over which she has no control.
Well, except that the OP clearly points out that the “tsk-tsking” of the waitress was directed right at him for wondering why they didn’t serve Coke (I’m sure he would have been satisfied if they’d said “We only serve Pepsi products”), and also the fact that she made false claims about Blue Sky Cola (it isn’t entirely natural if it does in fact contain fructose corn syrup like eevry other soda-pop produced under the sun) in a condescending fashion when HE was the customer leads me towards the OP’s side.
Although you still shouldn’t have tipped her, Shags.
It’s one thing to leave a “sympathy tip” to the harried Flo waitress that has way too many tables in a Denny’s at 2:30am because she has a bunch of demanding drunks to deal with, resulting in your “bad” service, it’s entirely another issue to get a fucking lecture about certain products the restaurant offers.
I can’t tell from the OP whether both parties were being difficult. Still, it’s the wait-staff’s job to deal with …tricky situations. At any rate, I wasn’t there.
Are you putting them in recessed fixtures? Some CFCs can handle those, some cannot.
My CFCs last way longer than incandescents. I seem to recall that Kevin Drum reported a similar problem to yours. From here it seems that the ballast can heat up.
I entirely agree with your point of view. In particular, grilling the waitress about whether she was driving to her job was inappropriate. Of course she needs to pay the bills. She’s only the waitress, for God’s sake!
Honestly, he was asking for it. He embarked on a Socratic crusade to demonstrate how stupid she (or rather the owner, possibly the other patrons) was.
Finally, an appropriate thread in which to post this YouTube video!
The waitress may have had to deliver that monolog.
Her’s what I do- write a letter. Do not mention the waitress by name, just that you hated being lectured about “Blue Sky Cola”.
I did this at one of our local Jamba’s- for some reason the waitstaff all were correcting everyone’s pronunciation of “Acai” (pronounced [asaˈi] :dubious: ). I just could not wrap my tongue or brain around that at 6:30 AM, so I wrote in. Some VP wrote me back, with a couple of coupons and said they had given out instructions to do that but they hadn’t thought it would be annoying. So they discountinued the policy unless someone asked.
Hey, I’m really mostly on your side, but it’s “tack”, as in direction or heading. See “sailing terms”.
Yes, I’m a nerd. That’s why I’m on the SDMB.
No.
Shitty service because server is an idiot/asshole/bitch/lazy sea slug? No Tip.
Shitty service because server is overwhelmed and running his/her ass off? Tip.
Food is absolute shit and the server can’t do anything about it? Tip.
Food is absolute shit and the server isn’t interested in fixing the situation? No Tip.
Kitchen totally fucks up your order? Tip.
Server totally fucks up your order? No Tip.
What did not come across in the OP was her tone, it was very condescending. And she seemed to have purposely delivered it loudly enough for the other patrons to hear. This kind of thing is not rare here. Once while ordering lunch at New Leaf Market I asked for a Diet Coke with which to wash down my bean and cabbage wrap and the salesperson actually gasped. My date quickly apologized for me. Fuck you, it’s Coca-cola not heroin.
I didn’t have a problem with the food - I like bacon and hash browns - that is why I went there (though it was a tad pricey). My point was that she seemed concerned for the patrons safety by not serving the chemicals but was apparently oblivious to the dangers of too much grease.
Go back and read the OP. I hear, “Sorry we don’t have Coke” all the time. I’ll take what ever the closest thing they have is, I’m not picky. But she didn’t say ‘We don’t have Coke’ and stop there, she proceeded to lecture me on my irresponsible habits to the planet. I also stated I was ready to let it go and order tea until she continued her harangue.
It was the waitress who started the carbon footprint angle of no Coke - not me. If she is just a waitress, offer me an alternative and shut the fuck up with the finger-wagging.
Mister Rik, that is my world.
Cardinal, no see I meant short for ‘tactical position’… yeah, that’s the ticket. 
Jeez, even my cross dressing granma can walk faster than that.