Eight years and counting!
I’m pretty sure if anyone here did that the RSPCA and various TV channels would be all over them faster than you could say “Monty Burns”.
But yeah, that’s messed up if that’s how it works in the US.
Sadly it is the case. There have been reports and the occasional shut-down of really bad ones, but overall its a profitable industry.
Around PA, a lot of puppy mills are run by Amish. 
Montgomery Alabama. Got off the plane the first time I was there, and stepped into a wave of humidity redolent with the stench of vegatation rotting in standing water. Never had a decent cup of coffee in the city, and I’d swear there isn’t a restuarant above one and a half stars in the place. The place seems to close at 5pm, and there wasn’t even a movie starting after 9pm. Bars always seemed to get quiet whenever I/we’d walk in, one of the few, if not the only, place I’ve ever been where I don’t think I had a conversation worth the name with anyone but my coworkers and clients.
I did get a nice story out of the place though: last day of one of my trips there, we went out for lunch with the client’s technical manager, on our way out I stopped to hold the door for a couple of elderly ladies. One of them made the comment: “It’s nice to see manners still exist in the South.” I couldn’t help myself, “Ma’am, I’m from Boston.”
It’s very high on the list of place I won’t go to without being paid.
There’s a diner in Trenton, NJ that has to be the scariest, nastiest place I’ve ever eaten in, but other than the beehive hairdos and all the staff smoking all the time, I can’t recall much about it. The city itself is still far more pleasant and friendly than Montgomery.
Fry’s Electronics.
Shitty customer service I will deal with. Sticking off-brand hardware in brand-name boxes and selling it as the brand-name item I will not - one strike and you’re out.
Good prices or no, they haven’t received a dime from me in over ten years.
You realize you raised and dashed my hopes in the course of a single thread. If you ever come around and decide to actually, you know, LEAVE the airport…
Put-In-bay, OH,
Like 5 -6 years ago a pitcher of beer was $17.00
and a beer was around $4.50, and the mf place was empty.
and Cleveland Browns football stadium,
same deal there,
and Progressive field, home of the Indians,
just added an auto to my progressive car insurance
Paris.
I’ve traveled to a lot of places around the world for business and for pleasure, and I’ve never been treated as poorly as I was during a week’s stay there. And I’m not talking about just being ignored by waiters–I’m talking about downright rude and insulting.
My French is pretty bad, but it’s a lot better than my Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Swahili, and so forth, but none of those places ridiculed me for trying to speak their language.
I like to say that there are nice people everywhere you look, but they’re in mighty short supply in Paris, France.
Washington. The state, not DC. Wasted the first 35 years of my life there, don’t see any reason to go back.
Home Depot. Hate them. Hope they go out of business.
I need a hammer, I’ll go to Sears or Lowe’s. Or the local lumberyard place.
I don’t think I’d go back to Tennessee again. I suppose there’s nothing actually wrong with the state, but I have some pretty bad memories of it. I might drive through it but that’s all.
Have you informed the relevant authorities of this? This sort of deception is illegal in Australia, and I’d assume it’s the same in the U.S.
A certain Petro Canada gas station in Edmonton. I usually fill up there before my 3 hour drive home (I go there to visit friends regularly) and a trip to the restroom is part of the routine. On my second-last visit I went in and someone had filled the toilet bowl with paper towels. Good thing they didn’t flush. I came out and told the cashier, she barely even acknowledged my presence and pretty much grunted at me.
About a month later I was back, for my last visit. This time the toilet worked fine, but the white sink basin was absolutely black. I was brave enough to drag a finger through the slime to see if it indeed washed off. If they can’t be bothered to wipe out a sink once a month or so and provide clean facilities for their customers, then I won’t be bothered to give them my business.
LA. I just hate it. It’s ugly and I always have horrible allergy attacks there. (I used to think it was because it’s so polluted, but now I’ve been to even more polluted places and it didn’t have the same effect. It’s just something about LA.)
Unfortunately, this is almost certain to be one promise I’ll break, because I have a bunch of extended family in LA and Orange County and one day my mom’s guilt trips will win out and I’ll end up going to some kind of family reunion in bland suburban hell. Which I’ll sneeze the entire way through. But I have held fast since I left my parents’ house in 2002 and have only been once in the interim - and that was for work and I didn’t have a choice.
Happens here, too.
I cannot say Mississippi, because my beloved grandfather lives there. The minute he no longer does (for what ever reason, and hopefully MANY MANY MANY years from now) then it will be Mississippi. Sorry, MS dopers, I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the place. Hate the people. Hate the weather. Hate the attitudes. Hate the Southern Baptist Church. Hate.
Ichiokyu Teppanyaki Restaurant in Newtown, NSW. Messed up reservations that I confirmed THREE TIMES for my son’s birthday, leaving me with lots of disappointment, people who came to the party having to eat other places, etc. Never ever again.
Fiesta, San Antonio’s big event. Crowds so thick you have to fight through them (outdoors even!), medeocre food, bands that were popular 15 years ago for one hit, and vomit crusted, diarrhea filled porta potties.
Even drunk, it’s miserable.
I should have, but sadly did not. Since it was over ten years ago I don’t think doing so now would have much benefit (and it would be a very hazy-on-the-details report).
Maybe they’ve cleaned up their act since then. I’m not yet in the mood to give them another shot, though.
You reminded me of another – Radio Shack.
Then I’ll look you up for sure! As it is, I’ll probably just get from gate to gate. To Golden Gate. 