Awww, dat’s nice Rick.
Except I read it on Snopes awhile back. 
Call him “dog botherer” if you dare.
ahem… One day, after a Really Bad Day, on Very Little Sleep, while working on a Really Difficult Show, I totally lost it and went apeshit on a service employee who was simply unfortunate to cross my path that day. I was in the kind of mood where I would have been homicidally infuriated if someone had squeezed the tube of toothpaste from the middle instead of the end. This woman bore the brunt of my “Hulk will smash!” mood, and maintained her decorum throughout.
I didn’t dump soda on her or anything, but I was nasty.
I dropped off a bouquet of flowers and a note of apology the next day. So yes, it does happen. But I think we Supremely Evil Customers need to have enough of a conscience to follow up.
I felt horribly ashamed for losing my cool.
Dooku, I agree that she probably had no idea how irritating her choice of words was, and as a born-and-bred Wisconsinite I’m sure I have some weirdness to my idioms as well (I cannot bring myself to say “water fountain,” for example). And yes, I hear worse out of people’s mouths all the time. But I think this young lady would be well advised to learn that it is one thing to address your acquaintances as “you guys” and another to use that term for customers in a nice restaurant who are old enough to be your parents. It wouldn’t have bugged me as much at McDonald’s.
I agree, and I say next time you may want to say something to her, since you seem to want to visit that restaurant again. I just happened to relate to the “you guys” thing since I said that my whole life…until someone told me it was odd. 
I can’t speak for the person who originally mentioned this, but I can explain why I do. It doesn’t really have anything to do with having more trust in the advertisers - I’m going to do the same amount of checking on a business I found in a church bulletin as I would do on a business found somewhere else. It has more to do with a payback- the businesses advertising in the bulletin have supported my church at least to the extent of spending their ad dollars there, and many of them contribute further support. Basically, the same reason a parent might choose the business that sponsors their child’s baseball team.
Makes sense, doreen. Thanks for your response.
Yes, they did ask you to come in. They have a sign out front saying “N for Sale Here” or perhaps “Bob’s N Store”. They run ads in the paper, or on TV and radio. They have sales. All of these things are done to ask the potential customer to “Pretty Please Shop Here!”
And none of it counts, if slow or rude customer service drives the customer right out the door again.
When I walk out, I not only take my money with me, I take a piece of the owner’s ad budget out the door with me.
Havelock, will do fine, thank you. Daniel, seeing as how we’re in the Pit, it’s nice to be on a first-name basis. I’ve been a daily vistor to the SD site for years, but only recently discovered the Board. Hopefully, I can live up to the proud tradition of my namesake–now I just need a sigworthy quote…
I was in Asheville recently and was impressed at the food–Magic Mushroom (good, but no Peppers) and Cafe Soleil (pardon any spelling errors, but it was the cafe that exclusively served crepes).
Havelock, will do fine, thank you. Daniel, seeing as how we’re in the Pit, it’s nice to be on a first-name basis. I’ve been a daily vistor to the SD site for years, but only recently discovered the Board. Hopefully, I can live up to the proud tradition of my namesake–now I just need a sigworthy quote…
I was in Asheville recently and was impressed at the food–Magic Mushroom (good, but no Peppers) and Cafe Soleil (pardon any spelling errors, but it was the cafe that exclusively served crepes).
Apologies for the double post. Request timed out, so I reposted. Please be gentle; its my first time.
Magic Mushroom, if you ask me, sucks ass. I hate their pizza, I hate their sandwiches, I hate their decor, and I hate them each and every one personally.
Cafe Soleil is pretty fine, though. But for good pizza and beer (they brew their own), Asheville Pizza and Brewing Company (nicknamed Brew & View – they have a discount theater in back) can’t be beat. I’d put their pizza up against Pepper’s, so good it is.
Asheville generally has better restaurants than Chapel Hill; our only problem is a lack of a decent coffeehouse. We’ve got the stinky punk coffeehouse of Vincent’s Ear (great name, foul interior); the shabby hippy cafe of Bean Streets; and a few other lame places around town. Fortunately we’ve got some good bakeries, or we’d be out of luck coffeewise.
Not that I’m getting completely off-topic or anything.
Daniel
As Doreen said, you try to support those who support things you support (in this case the printing of the bulletin). The case in point was my wife’s hairdresser moved out of town and we found one (only one 
) in the bulletin, so my wife tried her and she was great. I’m not saying that she’d have stuck with the hairdresser had she been a worthless excuse for a hairdresser, but we just looked in the church bulletin first. We have no idea whether she was a member of the church or not, just that she advertised there.
Hope that kind of explains it.
Maybe it is on Snopes, but I have in my hand right this minute a recipt from Canyon’s Restaurant in Mountlake Terrace WA. dated 11/10/03 with those words writen on it. If you would like I can mail it to you.
:wally
Or if was the broken foot story I can forward X-rays
It appears the School of Assassins needs to update its cirriculum for the internet. It is rather unseemly for one of their prized pupils to commit such a basic faux pas, don’t you agree?
Perhaps. This clacks system was installed only recently and I am still ice-skating my way up the learning curve…
BTW, is it my connection or does the response (latency) of the Board vary during the day?
Not your connection. It varies wildly.
What do you say?
Rick, I think the snopes thing was a joke from the earlier “glurge” credibility debate.
I grew up in California (Santa Cruz area) and I’ve always said “you guys”. I also say “drinking fountain” and I’ve never heard “water fountain”.