First, WTF is with the tolls in illinois now?! I go to school, come back for spring break and the tolls are DOUBLED if you don’t own an IPASS??? This is ridiculous! I’m a college student and I only use the tollways a few times a year so I’m not about to spend fifty bucks on a damn IPASS that will take years and years to use! I spent a dollar on one toll… there is something damn wrong with having to pay for tolls using paper money. It almost makes me want to just stay home.
Second… I HATE going into stores in the mall and being harrassed by employees that work in the stores who are begging to help you… I understand it’s policy but chances are, if I’m in a mall, I’m shopping. If I want something and can’t find it, I’ll find YOU. I went to a mall where there was a man who stood under the front arches of the store… stared at me when I came within fifty feet of the store… then said “Hi, can I help you find something” I said “No thank you” then I’m in the store and he comes up again and asks “Are you finding everything alright” Then comes up again and asks if he can assist one more time within a four minute span. I have no problem going into a store with employees quietly standing by at bay… then, when I need help, I’ll approach them and say something like “Hey do you have these in a size 12” then they say “I’ll check” then they check, and I get my shoes… end of transaction. This is universal, not just for shoe stores. When I see an employee standing at the front of a store like a hawk, it really makes me not want to go in.
Third, I watch cooking shows… I HATE it when people on food shows eat the food that they just made and then there is a five second span when you have to watch them chew the food and say “mmmmmm, thats sooo good” If it tasted like shit, would you really admit to it on tv? I cannot picture a show where a cook tastes the food, then says “Shit, I guess I fucked that one up.” IMHO, they shouldn’t even taste the food at the end to make an encomfortable awkwardness for the viewing audience. Just accept it as tasting good and roll the credits. no taste test necessary.
Everyone has those little lame things that piss them off (and probably no one else)… well those are mine… little and minor? yes. but hey, it feels good to let it out.
As someone who wears size 16 shoes, I just have this to say: I wish!
I’ll add my own pet peeve of the day: waiters and waitresses who stop by your table to ask how everything is. Why must they wait until I have a mouth full of food to do so? Every damn time… :mad:
If I were more cynical, I would suggest this is done on purpose, so they can claim the cred for caring without risking you actually being able to say anything horrible in response
I hate how stores in the mall have greeters now. I can understand Wal-Mart’s desire to do so, because they often employ elderly/handicapped people to do so, people who probably have a lot of trouble finding jobs. But if I go into Express, some chick is being paid at least $5.15 to stand there and say hi to me–or not. Most times they ignore me. Maybe because I’m not one of the beautiful people. So they’re getting paid at least minimum wage, probably more like $8 or $9/hour, to stand there. And look pretty (and vapid, hehe).
Completely unrelated: I always thought your name was ChiefIL11, like Chief Illiniwek.
My theory is because when you’re in a restaurant, what do you do? Answer: eat. You eat. You put food in your mouth and chew it. And I’d wager you swallow, too, unless you happen to get a bit of gristle in your mouth, in which case you discreetly put it in your napkin. So your mouth is full a large percentage of the time. However, this theory doesn’t work if you go to a restaurant and talk to the people you’re with. I’m not one of the social ones, so my theory holds true for me.
Something wrong with tolls costing enough to use paper money?
Shit man, stay the hell away from the Benicia bridge in Cali. $3, last time I went through.
And you even have the option of avoiding that 25 cents, if you’re willing to encounter a few traffic lights on the local roads that parallel the Toll Road! (Just guessing, but Sunrise Valley Dr. perhaps? Or Sunset Hills Rd.? Maybe Herndon Pkwy.?)
Yep. Stay away from the Skyway, too…and Philadelphia…and dont’ even think about New York State, where tolls (on a ticket system) can cost you well over $10.
That is why “40 dollars a day” is the worst show on the Food Network. It is basically 30 minutes of Rachel Ray doing exactly that. She eats and describes everything and it is all “Sooooo goooood.” Gah.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. That show is awful! It doesn’t take very much talent to be given forty dollars, carted around the world, and eat food. I’ve seen the show a few times… (Don’t ask me why) and she seems to like everything she eats and she isn’t shy about sharing her “mmmmmm’s”
There is just something so uncomfortable and awkward about watching someone eat food and share their opinions with a mouth full of food.
As for the tolls, just get the IPass. You won’t miss waiting in the toll line one bit. The entire $50 goes to tolls, so its really nothing but cash in your pocket. What’s more, they will soon be networked so they work in a number of different states.
Have you tried waiting tables? 90% of the time people are in a restaurant they have food in their mouths. I try to avoid that, but it is impossible. All you have to do is nod which isn’t that difficult. If they stand and wait for you to finish your bite… that’s rude and obnoxious.
Yeah, I have waited tables before; I recall what a horrible and thankless job it can be sometimes… but stilll, man that annoys me when I take a huge bite of food and immediately the waitress says “How is everything?” There’s no way for me to answer without blowing chunks of Cobb salad across the table like a terrorist attack in the fruit and vegetable aisle.
But you’re right; it not the waitresses fault. And I tip well (after all, they’re the ones who have to clean up the virtual polyclastic flow of half-masticated egg and lettuce spewn across the table top;) ).
I felt like I should share some of her “deep” lyrics with you all. I don’t know who hired the damn monkey and gave him a typewriter to write this song, but he needs to be fired.
You can meet me on an aeroplane
Or in the back of the bus
You can throw me like a boomerang
I’ll come back and beat you up
Oh I have waited here for you
Don’t keep me waiting
You make me wanna lala in the kitchen on the floor
I’ll be a French maid where I meet you at the door
I’m like an alley cat
Drink the milk up I want more
You make me wanna
You make me wanna scream
You make me wanna lala lalala lalala lalala lala lalala
You make me wanna lala lalala lalala lalala lala lalala
You make me wanna lala lalala lalala
lalala…
