Word Salad II

Ok, I found a post today on another comm that made me think of a suck I had the other day. Also, I'm posting the text from this other place, and I'm asking your opinion on how you feel about it. If this is not allowed, please don't send me a thousand answers about how it's wrong or not allowed... just don't answer or mods please delete. Thanks bunches!

( My suck and future suck )

This is a suck, combined with maybe a bit of bad service....

I was just on the phone with a guest who wanted a number to a pizza place. I had to wait a few seconds as he searched for a pen, but as I waited, I could hear him talking to his roommate in the background. Apparently earlier, he tried to call somewhere and he was placed on hold and evidentally they never got back to him. Well he was going off on whoever had picked up the phone and in the process called them the n word. This got me ticked* and once he got back on the phone with me, and I provided the phone number, I promptly hung up the phone with him. He called me back a few seconds later, asking why I had hung up on him and I told him that I had thought the conversation had ended and that's why I hung up.

*No, I'm not African American but I do have co-workers who are and I guess I got ticked on their behalf.

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( A crazy lady and everyday problems )

Wow, talk about results.

Late last night, I researched Paypal's process for filing a claim. It had about 5 steps and looked like it was one of those things that could take a month or so. But I filled out the form and to my surprise, it instantly bypassed the intervening steps and went straight to filing a claim for me.

Tonight, I got my refund. *And* an apology from the vendor, which is the only time I've gotten email communication from him.

Not bad, Paypal. Not bad at all.

Now I need to find a reputable place to buy the digital scale.

Raimei, come back here! I don't think you should go near that.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/015861.html

Suit on cell: You know, in the 80s everyone and their brother were making limos in their basement.

--17th & Broadway

Overheard by: Vespa

(obnoxious pimped-out car revs up at stop sign, then tears down the road)
Old guy: That guy's goin' back to the future! 88 miles per hour!

--9th & Stuyvesant

Tough-looking woman to younger one: Let me teach you how to break into a car...

--27th b/w 6th & 5th

Overheard by: Kyle

Russian guy on cell (in Russian): I am not seeing her as a woman, I am seeing her as a potential driver of a vehicle.

--Lower East Side

50-something woman: I haven't seen a good pimpmobile since the seventies. I mean, what happened to all the purple, maroon, and gold? What is all of this crap with yellow hummers and black Escalades these days, it's like all the pimps went to finishing school sometime in 1981.

--Central Park

Overheard by: Graham Davis

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Last night my boyfriend and I decided to make a visit to Fenton's Creamery in Oakland, CA and let me tell you... it was AMAZING. I don't know if I've ever eaten any food more pornographic.

We ordered the large size "make your own sundae" (there is an even larger size as well!) with mint cookie, cookies and cream and chocolate chip ice cream, smothered in hot fudge and whipped cream and topped with a cherry. They have some even more impressive sundaes, but my boyfriend is a picky eater, so we picked the kind he wanted--I am the opposite of a picky eater, so while I'd prefer more kinds of toppings and more exotic flavors of ice cream, I am also perfectly happy to eat the ones he picks.

It was pretty much amazing. The picture doesn't really do it justice (from camera phone, taken right before we ate it), but try to use the sugar thing to give some scale. Or put it as the waiter described it, as big as two of his fists (that waiter had really large fists haha).

( $9 Ice Cream Sundae )

I work in a pet store. We have a vet next to us. Someone called in today to ask about the hours of the shot clinics. After giving them the information they then asked me how to get into the store. Not get TO the store, but get INTO the store. I politely told them there were two ways to get in, the door to the vet clinic or the door to the store. :X

I have also had people ask me how to get OUT of the store before. Ummmmmmmm perhaps it's those automatic double doors you walked through on your way in?

Hehe. People amuse me. :D

[there is a familiar demon wandering through the mess hall, looking quite lost. Those familiar with Heat may notice a couple of weirdnesses, namely: 1) his eyes are slate gray an 2) he has no expression whatsoever on his face]

...This place is not familiar. No part of Muladhara, certainly.



((OOC: 'Deaged' to pre-emotions, like Cielo did that one time! I don't have enough grey-eyed icons, but... [jedi-handwave] they're totes grey, guys.))

Today, I decided to do a braised short rib recipe, based (loosely) on Daniel Boulud's recipe. I found some short ribs for cheap, and I figured, why not?



( Look, the finished plate ended up looking like a smiley! )

At polymexina's request, I am posting a CBC link to some interviews with Margaret Atwood, spanning much of her career.

These are the best interviews with her I've ever found, including one where I can't decide if she's being very rude to the interviewer (something she's known for) or if the interviewer is asking for it, or both.

http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/literature/topics/1494-10058/

Puppy! Remember Boris, the tiny, cute, supposed Shih Tzu? Well, now that he's grown, it's evident that he's definitely NOT a Shih Tzu. He's ten months old now, and over twenty pounds, with huge, webbed paws, and he got a DRASTIC haircut, which gave us our biggest clue. I think he might be part pug, but I also think he's probably part water dog. Here are before and after photos. Before:



( more! )

[there is a young man slowly walking backwards through camp and very obviously not looking behind him. you may want to come warn him not to do that]

I still don't see it.

[oh, did I mention he's staring a two story tall Magic Eye board? because he is. feel free to have your characters see or not see the image, and also feel free to make the image they see whatever you want, something hilariously appropriate and/or scarring for life :Db]

want to start this with a disclaimer that I was already kind of cranky today because I got in from work last night and found out that we had to put one of the family's dogs down because of kidney and pancreatic problems. (Which a couple of my coworkers were pretty cool about letting me talk about her and share some stories.)

So my first WTF was witnessed at the Dunkins on my way to work.

A girl walks up to the counter and begins asking about espresso shots and all sorts of different more specialty coffees that you might find at like a Starbucks. Dunkins can do some of it, but anyway, this girl was rattling off things and combinations at a rate that confused both of the employees and a couple other customers. After everything she finally settles on a black ice coffee with a couple sweet-n-low, and then she mentions that she wants some cream in her coffee. She follows that up with "Oh, I'm not picky." And I kind of just stare for a moment in confusion.

( So now my OMG I want to kill someone for the day: )

Oh, and for the last time, will you people read the damn pinpad? Don't just slide the card through and try to sign. You have to select credit then approve the amount. I will try not to imply you're a moron, but no promises. If a 100 year old woman can go through my boyfriend's line and have exact change figured out and ready for him before he's even bagged her small order, then there's no reason you can't figure out the f'ing pinpad.

AND YES I KNOW MY PINPAD HAS LINES IN IT. IT'S STILL NOT THAT HARD TO READ IT! HOW STUPID ARE YOU PEOPLE??!!

Sorry... warned you I was in a crummy mood. u.u

(Edited to fix puncutation.)

......when you spam people's review pages by telling them that they are wrong just because they deviated from what your precious fanfic writer did? It was the same pairing, but tweaked. Not everyone's obliged to read your favorite author's work because not everyone thinks that their crap smells good. Are you seriously that pathetic that you attack another author for writing the same character/same pairing?! Worse yet is when you do attack people who write your darling couple in a less than flattering light because of your constant glorification of it. It even said on the bottom that it was an alternative view. Did you miss your lesson on Hooked on Phonics?


Jesus. 

I saw this after I looked at a friend's review page. Sick, sick, world. I cringed as much as when I saw the the 2girls1cup video. What the heck is wrong with these people?

Err, my first macro here. Am I doing it right?

I was told about this one this morning when I arrived, since I don't work on Mondays (last Monday the lady brought the jacket into us, and yesterday she arrived to pick it up).

When she brought her jacket in, she was a pain in the ass about the fitting. She had MP pin her over and over and over again. The reason it took so long, was that she kept fidgeting while MP was pinning her, so when she finally stood still with the right posture, it draped wrong. So finally she liked it. They went to the counter and just before MP rung her up, she decided that she did not want is to do the shoulders after all. She just wanted us to take in the sides and move the buttons (it is a double breasted jacket) on the front. So that is how it was rung up and that is what she paid for.

Yesterday was her pickup date. She showed up and this Monday it was SW that was working (the other employees work on alternating one week on, one week off schedules). SW gave her the jacket and like some of our customers, decided to try it on before she left, just so she wouldn't waste gas going home and then possibly having to come back.

So she put it on and was happy with the work we did do... but then she got upset.

She claimed that she paid us to do the shoulders and was mad that we hadn't done it. She snatched SWs measuring tape from around her neck and started measuring the width of each shoulder exclaiming: "SEE! IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS BEFORE!! I NEED THIS JACKET FOR FRIDAY NIGHT!!!!" She went on and on, yelling and cursing and just going up one side of SW and down the other and I think she completely flabbergasted her, because SW completely forgot to look the order up in the computer to see what the lady paid for.

Since I was not there and our boss took the day off for medical reasons, she told the woman to leave the jacket with her and she would talk to the boss the next day and call her to let her know what was going on.

So when the boss and I got to work this morning, SW told us what had happened. The boss looked up the order in the computer and saw that the woman had not paid for the shoulders. Then he remembered MP saying to him when the jacket came in, that there were tailor-chalk marks on the shoulders, but to NOT do them because she had changed her mind at the till.

Now, we absolutely have time to do the shoulders for Friday like she wants, provided she pay us the cost of doing it. However, since she was so horrible to SW, my boss has decided that we will not do the job. He called her and let her know that we 'unfortunately are so busy with other work that we do not have time' for her job. We would have done it today if she hadn't been so nasty.

Her nickname in the back is now 'Mrs. Beastly'... and even though she said that she would be in right away to pick up her jacket, she did not show up today.

(I had posted this a few minutes ago... but decided I wanted a new username, so I deleted it -it had no comments anyway- and I am reposting it with my new account.)