lately the very innocuous embarrassing thing = fast food/restaurant folk forgetting my drinks. The last three times I ordered out, two of the drivers forgot the drink I ordered, and I had to have them go back and get it and drive it back. I always hate that awkward "uh, excuse me!" moment because sometimes the drivers, in a (well-intentioned) effort to show they're sorry and be helpful, do this overdramatic Shakespearean apology when I'm really like 's'ok, not gonna die, just...want my drink!'.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
this thread has drifted somewhat from things that are irrationally embarrassing but yesterday i found myself grocery shopping and there was a woman stocking in the area where i wanted to grab some berries and some fennel and maybe some other things. i hadn't really decided yet, was still deciding what i wanted. she stepped aside and implied that i should go ahead, she said "take your time"
i stood there for like 5 seconds completely immobile and then asked her to please continue what she was doing because her standing behind me watching me choose my food was making me feel really uncomfortable. she didn't get it and was like "no go ahead, i'm ok" and i had to be like NO, PLEASE and then she finally saw the look in my eyes and understood that letting me go first was what was making me uncomfortable and that i would rather not be watched (that's what was really bothering me)
it was really really embarrassing, the whole thing
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Was that perhaps at the yogurt section?
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Fennel yogurt? Perish the thought.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
nope, the produce sectionalso i haven't had a chobani in months! i have been eating plain greek yog with a variety of jams and it is so much better in taste as well as lingering emotional feeling.
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
Does chobani not make plain? I mostly prefer plain yogurts but they don't have them at costco
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
they do but -- i repeat -- the only reason i had any interest in gd chobani yogurt was the passion fruit flavorit's not the yog itselfit's the PASSION FRIUT
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
oops fruit
froot
PASSOIN FRIUT
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
within seconds someone should come along and say how they don't like/can't handle the seeds and then we will know that everything has gone back to normal
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
I basically only eat fage with honey now. Because it's like a desert.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
have you guys ever eaten actual passion fruit?
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
my dad grew up in peru where they call them granadillas. they also nicknamed them "mucous fruits" because eating them is like sucking mucous
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
"mucous" looks weird - is it spelled "mucus?"
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
they are the best fruit. i'm trying to find seedlings locally so i can finally grow my own, bc @ $3 EACH that's just too ridiculous, even for the best fruit ever.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
the passion of the fruit
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
Granadilla isn't pomegranate?
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
i'm increasingly embarrassed by the entire process of grocery shopping. getting your sustenance = being forced to navigate an artificial grid of product displays while interacting with or trying not to interact with strangers who are being forced to do the same thing, then waiting in line with said strangers while wage slaves handle your plastic-wrapped food, and you're all crowded together and inevitably someone feels like they have to "be friendly" like we're all there by choice. also convinced everything about the yogurt aisle is basically "don't you want this healthy ice cream" and am pretty embarrassed to enter it, though yes i do want this healthy ice cream.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
also displaying what will soon be the contents of your fridge and pantry to like 20 randoms, and seeing what everyone else's will be.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
wow, grocery shopping is, like, the world's most relaxing activity for me. embarrassment does not compute
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
at least not in peru xp to la lechera. GIS for granadilla also brings up passion fruits
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
i am getting sick of all the people standing around deliberating blankly while they shop. like, don't you do this a lot? like every week or two? for most of your adult life? are you eating food you have never had the slightest experience of? can you not just grab an onion and throw it in your basket? does so much hang on your buying exactly the right combination of things? you're going to eat it all and shit it out and then come right back and do it all again, is it really worth it to you or to me to stand around in a daze cluttering up the aisles?
― j., Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
I don't understand what's so bad about Chobani.
I also don't interact with people there any more than I do anywhere else. "Hey, howya doin'."
Seeing what's in everyone else's cart might be my favorite part of the trip. You wonder how the makers of RC Cola stay in business until that guy gets in the next lane.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
the politics of the plastic dividers and when to "make room", not knowing where to look between the horrifying magazines and accidentally catching the gazes of other people not knowing where to look. etc. always relieved when it's over. xxp
i'm one of those people standing around deliberating blankly and i don't know what to say about it other than, yes, getting stuff for more than one meal during a trip can get complicated, it's the end of the day, and here we all are in this place we don't want to be in rn.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
don't want to give the impression that i can't handle being embarrassed by something innocuous itt
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
i see a lotta louis ck style 'this is exactly the thing i want to do right now why can't i do it' driving types at the store
i much prefer shopping after 10 at night, but lately i have been going during the day or the evening so i am exposed to these horrors
― j., Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
Crossing paths with my neighbouring co-worker in another part of the office, not knowing if I should say hi or make small talk ("Welp, see you back at the cubicle in 4 minutes!")
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
^^^^ yeah that, or similarly, when someone is crossing paths and they say "Hi <name>, how are you/how was your time off?" etc and you start answering and try to ask them "how about you" in response but they keep going, never really interested in hearing the response and leaving you alone by yourself holding the banana you bought downstairs and a soulful of shame
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
agree that shopping at night is nicer. xp
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
I love late night grocery shopping.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
Coldstone also refers to their sizes by embarrassing phrases, one being "Gotta have it." I don't know if they *make* you use them but they do seem to expect it.
― nickn, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 1:56 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I still find it fairly embarrassing to have to use the Starbucks coffee sizes. Why can't I just say S/M/L?
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
You can
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
That's what I still do. "I'll take a large." "A Venti?" "Sure, if that's a large."
I still can't get over "Medium/Large/Extra Large" at some places, but I'm getting into What's the Deal With Airplane Food? territory now.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
I know I can, but I feel like I'm making things more complicated and confusing for them if I'm not using their sanctioned terminology
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
I'm afraid I'm going to slip up and order a medium at Wendy's where maybe they still use medium as medium when what I really wanted was a small.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Having worked there, it can throw off your rhythm if someone says "large"; you get used to the register buttons, and suddenly you have to stop for a second and think, right, large=Venti. Not a big deal, but it added a tiny bit of stress during morning shifts on the drive-thru.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
I honestly don't know the sizes off the top of my head. Forcing customers to describe their desired volume of beverage by using unfamiliar words is an interesting edict, I'll give them that.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
oh god I just remembered the worst irrationally embarrassing thing that happened last month at Target
I was standing in line and a woman started putting up her stuff on the conveyor belt & she leaned over and said 'VG? Oh wow hiiii!!!!' and she turned out to be a person who had worked in my office 10 years ago. Who I thought was kinda weird back then because she dressed like a tapdancer and I never knew how to talk to her because she seemed like that kind of manic happy on the verge of tears beauty pageant kinda crazy and she was very sincerely nice and tried so hard but I always pictured her crying in the bathroom somehow and it was v unnerving
and she's still kinda the same, SUPER scary pleasant and chatty and this checkout line became the worlds slowest line right at that moment, the ppl ahead of me were paying with a $100 and the cashier didn't have change and her register was fucking up and I am trapped making smalltalk with this woman and she's asking about people she remembered from the office and ohhhh god I wanted to die
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
I hate running into people who no longer work in my office
i hate it even more when they come in to visit
it's just all awful and I don't know why but I hate it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
i bet leonardo di caprio feels something like that if he bumps into kirk cameron at a pinkberry.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Hey that's a good reason to use their wacky terminology-- I'll remember that
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
joygoat which college did u go to did u go to my college or was it msu or are there other schools with dairys i only know about those 2
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
penn st has one too
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
maybe it's a common thing in agri/land-grant schools
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 04:52 (ten years ago) link
This would be the large land grant state university in the eastern part of Washington. We've got the dairy here and the University of Idaho is 8 miles east where they have the wonderful and amazing Vandal Meats.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link
I looked up Cold Stone's size phrases. I wonder if you have to say TM when ordering.
Like It™ - approximately 5 oz. Love It™ - approximately 8 oz. Gotta Have It™ - approximately 12 oz.
― nickn, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 07:35 (ten years ago) link
I'm Here Under Duress™ - 2 ozFine, I'll Order Something Just Please Don't Sing™ - 2.5 ozI Wish I Were Dead™ - 25 oz
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 10:59 (ten years ago) link
LolI would love to see them attempt this shit in, say, Macclesfield
― kinder, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 11:40 (ten years ago) link