That new turn lane they installed after endless months of work, at the busy intersection right before you get to my workplace? The intersection with the 8 second green light?
It’s OK to use that new turn lane now, even though it is bright and shiny new. If you use it, those of us who are going straight ahead can make the light. If you as creatures of dumb habit all keep piling into the old combo turn/go straight lane, those of us on the end of the line will have to miss green light cycles.
It’s like the old experiment with the high-hanging bunch of bananas, the chimp and the crate. The new lane is your crate. Making the light is the bunch of bananas. Once you make the connection and start climbing on the crate, you’ll be stuffed with fresh banana and can make happy hooting noises as you drive off to work.
I’d like to pit the idiot at Time-Warner cable who thought that when I asked that service at my current address be cut off on June 30th and connected at my new address on July 1st I actually wanted the service to be cut off on June 23rd.
Why would I want to be without television and, more importantly, online access, for an entire week? And how come you are able to cut off my service by simply flicking a switch (or something) at your central office, but turning it back on requires that you send out a technician, which you can’t do for another two days?
Always, always write down the damn confirmation number when paying online!
Stupid cell phone company shut off my service saying I hadn’t paid when I had paid online 3 or 4 days ago, got the confirmation number and everything but did it actually go through? No.
Checked my bank account and there is nothing pending for them, so somehow AT&T just lost it in the internet ether somewhere after telling me my payment was confirmed. THE ONE DAMN TIME I DIDN’T WRITE DOWN THE CONFIRMATION NUMBER!
I’m having a pickle, now. A nice, high-sodium, but low calorie, and satisfying crunchy snack.
Because I like my crunching to last a bit, I tend to get the larger pickles and enjoy them thoroughly. But I was just looking at the nutritional information on the side of the jar, and I just noticed this. “Serving size: 1 oz (28g/about 1/3 piece)”
Now, on the one hand, I can see, when a single serving offers 330 mg of sodium, why the manufacturer would have an interest in minimizing the serving size. But just how realistic is it to consider that someone will be eating just a third of their half pickle? Now, I know that serving sizes have gone down a lot from the days of the old four food groups, and that vegetables are supposed to have 10-12 servings a day, now. But isn’t this getting ridiculous?
Can’t we go back to talking about serving sizes that people actually eat, instead of tailoring serving sizes to make the nutritional numbers look good? I thought it was cheesy back in the 70s when TAB first started claiming that it had less than one calorie per serving. In part by redefining a serving so that the 12 oz. can had 2 and a half servings, IIRC. And it’s still cheesy, now.
No, they hire the people to haul them from the cart corral back to the store. Otherwise, they’d have enough staff to grab your basket before it had a chance to ding somebody’s car. If they did that, costs would rise, and there’d be less people shopping there to leave their baskets laying around. I think the extra costs would be worth it to have people with your attitude shopping somewhere else.
It is only someone else’s job because people don’t do what they are supposed to, but it has to be done anyway. In the same way, if people didn’t throw garbage in the street, it wouldn’t be someone’s job to pick it up.
Damn, you’re hostile about this. It is safer and more courteous to return carts to the corral, even if there is no legal mandate to do so. It behooves people in a society to be polite and safety conscious, for the the benefit of that society (including themselves.) Even if a person thinks that being polite has no intrinsic value of its own, it can save them from an ass-kicking or two.
While this is certainly rant worthy, let’s rant at the actual source of the problem.
This issue came up some time ago in this thread where it was pointed out that serving sizes are actually determined by the FDA, purportedly to have all manufacturers reporting nutrition information based on equivalent amounts of food.
Projammer, thanks for the information. I didn’t realize that serving size was mandated by the FDA these days. I can honestly see the sense for that idea, but…
Screw politness and safety conciousness, the self-absorbed assholes who abandon their carts willy-nilly are costing me money by forcing the store to hire more workers to clean up after them.
Damnit! Why do I only own a rather large (and nice, but large) digital camera? It’s not a DSLR, but it’s nice. But it’s large!
Because I’ve never had a need to have a super-tiny snapshot type camera, that’s why. Only tonight I want to go somewhere, and take a tiny, snapshot camera, and not take my bag. I should own yet another camera.
Stupid community college abolished changing names on diplomas (with a fee). So now I’m stuck with my maiden name on the damn thing until I plead my case to the director of admissions. And guess who isn’t returning my phone calls or calling back when she scheduled a “phone appointment”?
Plus I’d rather not have to explain my numerous and very very good reasons for not being further associated with other people of my maiden name, especially my father. It would be much better if I could just pay my fee and get a new diploma, no questions asked. Instead, I have to expose a chunk of my personal life.
(Yes, I know it’s rather petty to want my married name on my AA. But I want to be able to hang it on the wall and not cringe every time I look at it).
I quit my job last week, and I’m working out my two-week notice. Apparently I will be training my replacement for that entire time. Holy shit, do I ever hate training! And this woman - LISTEN TO ME! Remember what I told you (three, four, five times), and LISTEN TO WHAT I’M SAYING NOW! Don’t just go screw everything up because you can’t listen to or follow simple instructions. I photocopied my extensive notes on how to perform these duties; READ THEM. Don’t just ask me every single little thing. This is not a hard job, but it is a very detailed one; that’s why I gave you the copious notes. I’m about a half day away from telling her, every time she asks me something - “Look it up.” What is is with people always wanting to ask, instead of finding anything out for themselves? You learn ten times faster if you do it on your own with a guidebook. Leave me alone. Let me work out my time in peace. Please.
Funny, I just started a new position on Friday. I received a guidebook. The first time I did something according to the guidebook, I got a call from the CEO reaming me out. “You ask me before you do these things! Who told you to use the book? I didn’t authorize any book! No more book! Ask questions, don’t go so fast!”
When I went angrily back to the guy who gave it to me, he said, “well, it’s in the process of being vetted… it’s just been resurrected. It’s five years old. Don’t use it.”
Well, THANKS. THANKS A LOT. Who gives an entirely outdated guidebook to someone on their first day, and expect them to know NOT to use it? Arghhhh :mad:
Hey, Kroger produce department – you know those little stickers you put on all the peppers I bought today? THEY DON’T PEEL OFF! I paid two fucking dollars a piece for those peppers and had to throw out the parts where the adhesive was stuck. Okay, so I only tossed about six cents worth of otherwise usable pepper parts but it’s the principle of the thing. Bastards.
