No time fer coffee.

No money either

How many pieces of flair are they required to have upon their brightly colored suspenders?

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BWAahaHAA HAA HAAA HAAAAaaaaaaaaa

Flair

God what a shittty job that's gotta be.

"Hey Mom, I gotta pick up some "flair" fer my new job. It's real important."

I just delivered newspapers and later worked in a grocery store. Guess I was lucky.

I waited tables at a Denny's in a college town for kicks when I was much, much younger. Hardest job I've ever had, physically. I'd rather repeat boot camp twice over than wait tables again.

I did well on tips...better than most because I was one of only a few dudes waiting tables...and as far as I could tell, the only straight one. Collected plenty of tips and, oddly enough, myriad [unsolicited] MILF telephone numbers.

Oh, and I worked almost exclusively from the "Shirley from What's Happening" playbook.



Even the militant black-on types liked me. This was a time not long after Denny's got the shit sued out of it for "mistreating" black customers. So, when blacks came to the restaurant, the manager used to put them at the "head of the line" (nothing fixes discrimination like reversing the situation?!?). Got the occasional huge table full of college/student-aged militant-attitude blacks who'd like to abuse the white wait staff. They'd do stuff like start off the adventure by pointing out the 1-800 anti-racism number on the back of the Denny's menu...essentially saying, "Jump white boy or..."...and then try to run the piss out of you (i.e. table of 8 asking for beverage refills over and over...one person at a time). They truly made a game of it. Problem was, I'd have none of it. I took the job for kicks (had a good, professional daytime F/T job) and was there, initially, only because I was banging one of the waitresses. Tossed a quarter at one of those dopes and told him where the pay phone was...then took it back, reminding him that 800 #'s are free even from a pay phone.

You'd be surprised the fucked up shit you can get away with saying to people if you smile while doing it.

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HAHAHAHaHahaha!!!


Funny story dude.

*wipes tears from my good eye*

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"My mother would have said that a woman voting for John McCain
is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." - Cecile Richards, TX

I do have my moments...

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I like Starbucks coffee. It is really expensive, though. I only go there occasionally, and I get their "regular" coffee, no flavored crap, no whipped cream, etc.

I only go to Dunkin Donuts out of necessity, because I absolutely need my coffee. Their regular coffee tastes like absolute crap - it used to be good, but I noticed a distinct change about 7 or 8 years ago. It suddenly had some strange aftertaste. I've been getting their Turbo, which actually tastes strong enough to be considered coffee.

I don't know how/why it happened, but McDonalds started making pretty damned good coffee somewhere along the line.

But none of that matters, because I live within the Empire of Wawa! Excellent coffee at a reasonable price. The topper is that Wawa founder "Dick Wood"'s name is on every cup. Can't beat him. (*rimshot*)!

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"Compassionate Conservatism"?!?! That is a stupid phrase. Conservatism is inherently compassionate. It is liberalism that is cruel for the sake of maintaining a constituency.

You know it really may well be a good thing you and your wife didn't have a kid!

When my wife got pregnant the smell alone of it made her feel sick, i gave it up at that point for the duration of the pregnancy and i haven't drunk it since. (Just forgot about it altogether and never thought to really drink it after).

That's why i asked...i hadn't thought about it until now but its something i've gone without for a long time.

You guys are all aware that coffee is, in fact, bad for you...right?

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"My mother would have said that a woman voting for John McCain
is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." - Cecile Richards, TX

True, it was roughly a year ago (?) - I remember seeing a little news bit about how McDonalds was making a concerted effort to draw in the Starbucks crowd. I tried their new coffee, and sure enough, it was pretty darn good - not great, but good. As long as it's fresh, that is... they aren't very good about throwing out an old pot & brewing a new one. Most good coffee shops have a policy of throwing it out after one hour or so.

Wawa! Around here, they all got bought out by Krauser's, who still has decent coffee. 7-11 is another chain that has good java.

Is that what they're saying this month? Just wait, there will be a new study any day now that says that coffee is, in fact, good for you (in moderation, of course).

Everything is bad for you, lol...

I think it was their general trend of going more and more 3/multi-dimensional, now accepting purchases with major cards etc.

Soon enough they'll likely be doing home deliveries too and free within a certain radius etc.

I'm still waiting for them to start marketing the Bucket-o-Fries. I'm so there if they do.

The credit card thing is funny. When I first started working for a large credit card company in 1996, customer accounts would get "flagged" for charging certain things like tiny purchases and grocery store purchases. They were suspected of being signs the person using the card was out of money, which ain't good. Fast food clerks used to laugh at the concept of taking credit cards.

Flash forward ten years or so and I get annoyed at the SuperFresh if the pinhead in front of me is using cash, holding up the works trying to make sixty-six cents or whatever. At McDonalds, not only do they take the cards, now, they don't even make you sign for the purchase any more.

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Yeah i don't eat their much but i had a couple vouchers which i used and it took me 30 seconds to pay for it, it is lightenning quick.

The thing is, our purchasing system will only get faster and faster, but only when we start to implement the European "chip and pin" system will things actually be as effecient as they are currently possible.

Incidently, rumor has it that McDonalds will launch their own credit card like BK and starbucks have soon.