― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Didn't know carl was a Nashville songwriter.
― pplains, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 1:33 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I once had a dream I won an award for a country sing called "You Changed Your Heart (Why Won't You Change Your Mind)." I'm going to write that sng one day.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
bosses/managers/higher-ups who fuck something up for you and instead of saying 'whoops, nevermind', they just stay the course, attempt to justify it, and make everything worse for everyone
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 18:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
Failure and Rescue, by Atul Gawande
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 18:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
But I'm also the fuckin killjoy who says you can either listen to music in the car, or talk. Not both.
Argh! Why? Music can play in the background. Are you also against music in bars? My boss does this. She, a co-worker, and I had to take two two-hour rides to and from a meeting and she would turn off the radio at the slightest conversation, so we wound up sitting in silence for long stretches.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
Strange, I was on the phone at the bus stop and some guy started conversing at me about somebody walking by barefoot. He just kept on chatting while I was talking.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
I can't hear when there are more than two things going on at once.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
It makes me anxious. I usually turn down the car radio when I talk, and then turn it back up again. If I'm at a bar and there's music and a group of people talking, I either talk to the person next to me as best I can, or I just don't even try. It makes me feel like I'm going deaf or something, I hate it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
I like to have music on in the background when I have friends over for drinks and we're chatting, but obviously not at "have to shout to be heard" level.
On the other hand, I have a mate who would come over with a ton of his vinyl, expressly to listen to certain albums, like *listen* to them, and halfway through the first track he starts blathring about how it is really awesome how the guitar break in this bit goes doodlyoodly and then he goes off on a tangent and I'm like "why are we doing this"
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
Still, thats better than the dour, silent IDM listening parties my ex and his buddies would sometimes have at our house lol jeez. 3 hours of srs chin-stroking to Autechre. EXCITING.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
went to the local restaurant around the corner with the kids. i like the place. i support it. i have friends who work there. a friend of mine waited on us. after we got drinks (which my pal the bartender paid for) and some chips and salsa and were enjoying ourselves another waitress came over and said: i have some bad news. what? we have to ask you to move. why? we have a table of 8 we need to fit. really? then after i look all mean and sad she says we don't HAVE to move but of course i would feel like a jerk if i didn't and my friends are there but we were comfortable! we were waiting for our food! but we grabbed everything off of the table and moved to a booth next to the kitchen. grrrrrrrrr....
it made me irrationally angry. but i kept my cool. nobody has ever asked me to do that! ever! and i get so irrationally slighted in my old age its the kind of thing that makes me want to stop going there. but i like it there! (the waitress who asked us to move has pissed me off twice before. she's the only person there who has ever pissed me off. this probably had something to do with why i got mad.)
i felt like saying, you know what, take the table. we'll take our food to go.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
i mean i get it you don't want an 8 top to walk away and go somewhere else, but, hey, you sat us there! no take backs!
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
music on in the background isn't the same as listening to it
i can't drive and keep music loud and talk at the same time. i'm usually a very good driver when i only have one other thing going on in my head. music + conversation makes me a terrible and dangerous driver. wouldn't surprise me if others were the same.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
scott that is not irrational at all. restaurants aren't supposed to do that.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah that's a shitty thing to do.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
I've only been ever asked to move to accommodate a larger party once, ever, at a Pizzeria UNO in Virginia. The party looking for seating offered to pay for my and my wife's dinner, and in fact they did. I am extremely bribebable.
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
well that sounds fine. but this was just the waitress wasn't it? like, eight people walked in, they wanted the money of eight people, so they were dicks to the smaller group.
i'm a huge annoying stickler about tipping well, but if this happened to me i might not tip much! if the waiter/waitress made the decision themselves it's pretty clear where their priorities were anyway.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
she wasn't even our waitress. the one who wanted us to move. my friend was. i HAD to tip my friend good. and she didn't know anything about it. we were just all of a sudden at another table and i told my friend we had been moved. she took the chips and salsa off of our bill. still pissed me off...
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
was the waitress who moved you serving the table of 8?
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
probably. i refused to look at the table of 8. my friend wasn't waiting on them. that much i know.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
they are your sworn enemies, it's only right
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
i just need to let it go. its a good place. they do good things. the owners are good to the people who work there. they are all about the local and all that. they just shouldn't piss off the local business owner from around the corner with a big mouth who loves to bitch about rude/annoying service! i wouldn't have been treated like this if i'd had 7 kids with me!
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
the only other reaturant-related innocuous thing that makes me mad is the craze among waitstaff to be too cool to write things down. 9 out of 10 times they forget stuff or get an order wrong. maybe that just makes them cooler. they are too cool to care if they get it right! (not talking about my friend here. she's a great waitress.)
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
obv it's all said and done but i would've complained to a manager about it. your story is making me IAer than any of my IAs.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
It would be legit in a passive-aggressive way to ask never to be seated in her section.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
for a brief moment after we went to the new table i did think about saying to my friend: you know what, can you just make that all to go? that was rude and we're going. and, you know, give her a big tip on the way out. i still gave her a big tip. wasn't her fault. she's great.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
what i think i'm gonna do is complain to my pal the bartender. he comes in my store a lot. my best customer, pretty much. tell him to tell the owner. and then i'll feel better.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
I remember being asked to change tables once, but they were nice about it and gave us some free food
― silverfish, Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
People saying "anymore" when they mean "these days" or "at the moment" or "currently". IT DOES NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS.
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 June 2012 21:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
ugh yes. this
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 21:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha my ex had a friend who would basically only call her when she was in cabs or something because she was bored
― mookieproof, Tuesday, June 5, 2012 8:37 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I do this all the time. I mainly call people on the bus or when I'm walking home or something. I hate talking on the phone and it basically never occurs to me to do so just when I'm hanging out at home.
My bff called me yesterday while I was at work. I haven't spoken to her in months so I took the call but I stepped outside to do so specifically so I wouldn't be distracted.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 8 June 2012 16:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
waiting to have breakfast outside a restaurant, watched 2 dudes chowing down and one of them was making me seriously IA. like, textbook 'omg I want to jump up and run over and make him stop.'
He was eating his breakfast with just his fork. He'd cut the omelette with his fork...which is fine, people do that. But if the morsel was unwiedly or too big or unbalanced he'd reach up with his free hand and push it on the fork with his fingers. If there was big drippy cheese strands, he'd use his fingers to wind it around the fork. AGH!! A knife was resting on the edge of his plate! it was right there!
Mr Veg said he was put there to test my patience.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 June 2012 04:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
dotty lady in her mid sixties who talked my ear off on the bus all the way from seattle to tacoma: i'm sure you made lots of other people irrationally angry, but u r a traet and i love you.
― contenderizer, Sunday, 10 June 2012 04:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
Dude brought his own iPod tower -- whatever the hell that is -- to a bachelor party.
Also, during Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals was no time to start playing Bruce Hornsby songs on the piano.
― pplains, Sunday, 10 June 2012 04:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 June 2012 05:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
There was a funny moment where we discovered one of the black keys had fallen off and the had-to-have-been-there joke was us taking turns carrying around an F# in our pocket.
― pplains, Sunday, 10 June 2012 05:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
VG, you wouldn't like eating with me.
― Jeff, Sunday, 10 June 2012 14:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
:(
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 June 2012 16:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
NEVER come to Arkansas. Pretty sure most people here are not exactly sure what a dinner knife is for.
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
For prying open electronic devices and clearing weeds out of brick walkways iirc.
― Biff Wellington (WmC), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's for stirring your tea, duh.
― pplains, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's so much easier to cut food with a knife than it is to hack at it with a fork and tear at it with your fingers. I don't understand the aversion to knife usage.
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
anything less than this riles me up tbh
― Jesu swept (ledge), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
it is pretty common though, I mean breakfast guy wasn't the first to do it, but he was just way more overt with the hand-using thing. Mr Veg doesn't use a knife much, but he keeps his free hand planted while he eats.
I'm having vague memories of an etiquette thread where someone said there was some kind of cultural throwback where Amercians would keep the knife on the table but only use a fork as en eff you to the Britishers. But that seems like a weird thing to be passed down for hundreds of years, lol.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
grr
― Jesu swept (ledge), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
grr was at broken image, that is correct form. this, otoh: gtfo.
― Jesu swept (ledge), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
I try to piss off as many Britishes as I can whenever I eat at the Starlite Diner off MacArthur.
― pplains, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
xpost that form is only acceptable if you are playing some kind of food-soccer across the table, where the object is to flip your food onto another person's plate. WTF
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's hard to tell which ones they are until their monocles start dropping at the sight of my unused dinner knife.
― pplains, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
I only use a knife when absolutely necessary. Eating with two utensils is just unwieldy.
― Jeff, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:31 (11 months ago) Permalink