start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Worst yet

My step-dad has this thing about restaurants offering something free - like desserts or comped drinks - to make up for inferior service (like a long wait.)

His point is that he doesn't want to be "bought off" for his inconvenience. I'm not sure how else a restaurant manager is supposed to make amends with a disgruntled customer, but I see where both sides are coming from.

This is a different situation from dowd's, but it got me thinkin'.

Agree with step-dad.

xp it doesn't fix the problem just masks the symptom

door to door marketing with horrible value propositions

i tend to avoid most people knocking on my front door unless it's a recognizable neighbor, or a car is broken down right outside or something and someone needs help.. or a girl scout with cookies..

talked to a couple people from the local phone/internet company who were letting people know they were now offering fiber internet in the area and were trying to sign people up. i use the cable/internet company and, while there are service interruptions on occasion, it's pretty much fine

i was listening to their spiel until i finally asked what speed their offering was and it was 12mbps and i was like GUYS LET'S NOT WASTE ANY MORE TIME THAT IS REALLY BAD. my irrational anger is strong when people are going door to door with horrible value propositions

Don't want to mellow mh's harsh, but want to say one thing about the popular notion of Girl Scouts going from door-to-door with cookies that they are selling. They may sell door-to-door, but usually not like that.

In actual practice, what they do is go around with an order form. Then they return (weeks later) to deliver the cookies you ordered. Payment is due when you get the cookies, not when you place the order.

We are going through this in my house just now, so I'm reflecting on how different those logistics are from the movie/TV idea of it, which is a Girl Scout showing up with cookies and asking if you want to buy them.

Carrion.

thanks for scoutsplaining

I have had both girl scouts showing up with cookies I previously ordered, and one family that did the trick where you order a bunch of boxes and then sell them later

also, I ate the cookies

"talked to a couple people from the local phone/internet company"

these can be scammers who don't actually work for verizon or whoever. they end up tacking big charges to people's phone bills. usually old people. and sometimes if you ask them for a card or i.d. they get nervous. and they will often have nothing in writing that they will give you. bad news.

the irrationally angry part for me was that they would come to my store and say they were verizon and they had no idea if i already had verizon service. because they don't actually work for them!

i've yelled at them in my store. for rational reasons.

i mean, i don't know if that was the case here. but phone/internet people from actual phone/internet companies don't usually go door to door. they were coming to my store almost once a month. they looked like hoodlums. very sketchy.

Someone was doing that in our neighborhood recently. A neighbor called Verizon and was told they don't do door-to-door sales. I don't answer the door for any salesmen/charities anyway. Had a canvasser for clean water action ring my bell at 8:30 pm a few weeks back. Can't imagine they do well with that tactic.

I have worked for hard-up charities/nonprofits in the past and still I cringe at the tactics. I wish I could communicate how much more I'd give them if I knew it would lead to them not bothering me ever again, in any way.

One of my idle fantasies is to be rich enough to make extremely conditional donations, like: "Okay, here's $50,000 for this year. Next year's contribution will be the same... except that I will decrease it by $1,000 for each piece of postal mail I receive, $5,000 for each e-mail, $10,000 for each phone call, and $49,000 for any door visit."

shit, there goes the verizon scam I was going to pull on scott

I figured they were likely a reseller or some sort of marketing group trying to sell product but sheesh, at least make it sound tantalizing

Today being snowy as fuck, I get ia at seeing drivers gun it when trying to get unstuck. I'll offer to help, with sand and/or a push, but ffs, if gunning it didn't work the first time, why would you insist on it as a long-term strategy?

(This ties into my ia at so few cars in the US being standard transmission; automatics are awful for getting unstuck.)

walkin the dog of the friend I'm housesitting for and was getting mad at the other people who had the audacity to be out with their dogs which got him all worked up and then realized how stupid it was to be mad at people for being outside at 5 pm (I blame having worked 8 straight hours on an aggravating assignment that I had to return to after said walk)

if I leave work at a normal time, not early or late, I sometimes get IA at all the people driving/walking/shopping immediately after work. you know, the most natural time to be doing those things

Mh, is that because you really just want to get home? Doesn't seem too IA to me.

Dfw made reference to that in a speech eh

Xp

when you are making an automated credit card transaction over the phone and after you type in your number they repeat the whole thing back at you. look i know why they do it but it makes me want to flip a table.

if I leave work at a normal time, not early or late, I sometimes get IA at all the people driving/walking/shopping immediately after work. you know, the most natural time to be doing those things

― mh 😏, Friday, 10 February 2017 03:23 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol 'who ARE all these fucking people????'

coleslaw was designed not to be picked up with any known utensil or combination of utensils. if the crystal maze had a food zone i swear the only game they'd need would be to eat some coleslaw.

A fork.

forks are no match for coleslaw

That's how I feel about salad in general tbh. esp when you buy a prepackaged salad which comes with massive crisp leaves and tangled clumps of frisee and an especially blunt, flimsy plastic fork

Was annoyed y/day that the watch repair place wouldn't change a battery because it was 40 minutes before closing time, even though they had 0 other customers and 5 members of staff (2 specifically on the repair and battery change counter) just standing around chatting.

(Possibly irrationally because even though in the past it's always been a 2-minute job I know there's probably the risk that it's a more complicated kind or that something loose will spring out and it'll take a lot longer, plus the faff of getting the tools out and putting them away again or sth, idk)

I agree about coleslaw. IME if a coleslaw is good, it is hard to eat with a fork; if it is easy to eat with a fork, then it is probably not good coleslaw.

One solution is to have it in between buns, e.g., on a pulled-pork sandwich or in a pork tenderloin slider such as this one

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-pork-tenderloin-rocks-reason-no-243/2017/02/06/41ea050c-e293-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.eb518c9d5217

O and my IA-ness (IAnus?) about "grocery shopping at 6 PM" is not with the other people who do that. Rather it is with my local grocery store's inability to understand that a lot of people will be running out to get the One Thing They Need for Dinner, and maybe they should have more than one cashier working at that time.

Flashbacks now about the first time I tried to politely eat a particularly springy salad at a work meeting with external people. I left that job not long after.

I ordered crab legs once during a client dinner cos it was on company's dime and I wanted to be adventurous, and having never had them before, didn't realize the sheer work involved!

I couldn't figure out how to crack them and eventually cut myself on one of the crab legs. went to the bathroom, googled "how to eat crab legs", came back out and pretended like I'd been doing it for years, while dabbing at the blood periodically.....

then later found out the client contact was a Birther so I suddenly didn't care what he thought of me

This Android phone kills me.

"Do you want to save your image to 'Photos' or 'Gallery'?" Motherfucker, what?

Yesterday, I finally got my v/m started and after loudly repeating my numerical password back to me (similar to nomar's complaint), it asked me to press one if I wanted my language in English or para español o prima dos.

No big deal, but I press one. The voicemail system then says, "YOU HAVE CHOSEN ENGLISH FOR YOUR LANGUAGE.... QUE HA ELEGIDO INGLÉS COMO SU LENGUA."

Why it tell me that I have chosen one language... in another language? I guess maybe if I was a Spanish-speaking customer and I had pressed the English button by mistake? But if I heard a robot tell me - in English - that I had "chosen Spanish as my language"....

I dunno, makes me IF (irrationally frustrated).

think i need more information on the good coleslaw you can't eat with a fork. scared this might be veering into "this is what good pizza looks like" territory

Mike's Hard Coleslaw

I don't know what kind of coleslaw you people eat but it is a spoon food where I'm from.

i always use a spoon at KFC

even for da chicken

I'm used to coleslaw roughy at this consistently. Even a little finer probably.

http://dfs015ujtdk5e.cloudfront.net/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/slaw540.jpg

You could go at it with a fork, but you're going to need a spoon at the bottom to get all the slaw juice at the bottom.

Coleslaw is spork food, goddammit.

lol 'who ARE all these fucking people????'

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, February 10, 2017 3:03 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tracer gets me

i always use a spoon at KFC

― Neanderthal, Friday, February 10, 2017 8:24 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Coleslaw is spork food, goddammit.

― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Friday, February 10, 2017 8:32 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Srsly, neanderthal. I think we've uncovered you as a spy.

So I go to a food truck on my break. There are no other customers. They take my order and I stand there waiting as they prepare sandwich after sandwich. Perhaps you should mention when I order that I'll have to wait 20 minutes for you to fill a phone order from a construction site. Or maybe you could just pause and make my fucking food since I'm actually standing right there.

crab legs googling kinda my favorite story of the week.

xp That's entirely rational. That is infuriating

Eating crabs - not just the legs - is A Thing in my region. One time, I found myself coaching non-English-speaking diners at a nearby table, using very bad high school French and lots of pantomime.

Like pistachios, it's a lot of work for comparatively little food, so it can be calorie-neutral (or even net-negative).

Anyway this is among the skills I had to learn pre-internet and pre-smartphone, so I am a little irrationally jealous of that story. So many things are so much easier now.

Like if you're on a date, and you see something on the menu you don't know how to pronounce, you can excuse yourself to the restroom and come back sounding all sophisticated like Bond, James Muthaflipping Bond.

Srsly, neanderthal. I think we've uncovered you as a spy.

― pplains, Friday, February 10, 2017 10:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i no tell special prosecutor, i no tell you

damn these new accordion style post-it notes, stanely kubrick is surely rolling in his grave

Aw, coleslaw is probably my main regret about becoming vegan. Yes, I know there are alternatives, but they're not the same.

I was all set to dig deeper into this 'unforkable coleslaw' topic, then I saw it was in the IA thread and thought better of it.

"Aw, coleslaw is probably my main regret about becoming vegan."

!!! you must have really really liked coleslaw.