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Posted by GabbiX2 on September 19, 2002, at 20:15:33
I went out today to a coffee shop to buy a tea bag. Yes I'm poor, and they have good tea, I couldn't afford the whole box.
I asked for a tea bag, and the server said she wouldn't know how much to charge.
I said "well just charge me for a tea-to-go."
The server had to ask the manager, who said they couldn't do that.
I said then that I would have a tea-to-go, and asked that she not put the bag in my cup of hot water. That was fine. So she handed me the cup of hot water and the tea bag. I paid, left the cup on the counter and walked out.Hmmm...
Posted by Medusa on September 20, 2002, at 4:41:38
In reply to A funny thing happened on my break from hell, posted by GabbiX2 on September 19, 2002, at 20:15:33
Geese Louise. You'd think with all of us liberal arts grads working in food service, more people would figure out how to work with the rules to sell stuff.
It's not like you walked into McDonald's and asked to buy a head of iceberg lettuce.
My MIL, bless her embittered heart, takes great pleasure in demanding services and things that shopworkers have no idea how to deliver. Once, before I married and corrupted her dear son, I was visiting and she took me to buy a bucket of ice cream at an ice-cream shop that thought they were there to sell individual portions. She made them find a toppings container and was about to pay for 18 1-scoop servings, and the worker said oh, he could charge her for 6 3-scoops.
I don't know why I told you that story. I'm usually the one trying to buy things that the service has no idea how to charge for.
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Posted by Dinah on September 20, 2002, at 8:04:49
In reply to Re: A funny thing happened on my break from hell, posted by Medusa on September 20, 2002, at 4:41:38
I have this problem sometimes. I try not to eat meat (not always successfully) so I sometimes ask that meat be left out of things it isn't ordinarily left out of.
There's a salad I like, you watch them prepare it, they take scoops of each ingredient and add it to the salad. I asked for it without meat, and the server and cash register clerk were positive it couldn't be done. So I very slowly explained to them. "You start to make the salad, you add each ingredient, when you get to the meat, *dooon't*".
Fortunately they thought it was funny, and I've had to use it a few times since, and everyone has been pretty good natured about it, although some poor soul just couldn't break the rules that far and gave me the meat on the side in a cup.
I think too much teaching to the test, and not enough critical thinking skills taught. That's not a criticism of the workers, who were trying their best, but of the entire school system in our area. All that matters is their most recent standardized test scores. :(
Posted by GabbiX2 on September 20, 2002, at 11:55:52
In reply to Re: A funny thing happened on my break from hell, posted by Dinah on September 20, 2002, at 8:04:49
A befuddled "I give up," sort of laugh, but a good one.
Next time I'm overwhelmed with bitterness I'm going to go to Mcdonalds and ask for iceburg lettuce. Oh no, that would be a bit too cruel.
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