This is one thing I cannot stand in any setting. Nasty looking people are so repulsive. Like, especially people who have cuts on their hands or fingers while they eat in front of other people. I never understood why they don't use bandaids. That's so gross.

Wow. I always thought cafe food was disgusting. What kind of buffets were you going to? Seriously, I'm just curious.

Seafood is just so hard to keep fresh.

Mostly it was only Shoney's which at one point was ok/good.

*crickets chirping* lord i hope it was her first day lmao!!! that is sooo funny!

LOL. And who says the education system is broken -- even a worker at Sonic knows a misplaced modifier when she hears it.

As for your response, some days we just have to get over ourselves. ;)

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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I went to Wendy's last night for and Election Celebration. :) (I had to work this morning so that's all the partying I could do). I love Wendy's but my burger is usually cold and when I say "no onions," they usually put them on anyway. :mad:

lmfao. I was gonna say something but you put it so....nicely. haha!!

It wasn't the workers fault.

I had a whole response typed out earlier but deleted it because I couldn't be nice about it. You did a tactful job.

When my kids were young, they ask me "Momma, would you put my shoes on?" and I would say (every single time!) "They don't fit me". They would burst into giggles and say "No! On me!" In time, they got it though.

^^^

that is cute.

I was not going to say anything, but since people have decided to jump down my throat about something completely insignificant, I am going to speak up for myself. Let me just clarify that the "with no lettuce" was an afterthought. It was not said as a sentence. Don 't imply that I can't speak English. You are not the only college graduate on this message board. She should have known that I did not mean lettuce on the tater tots. Secondly, you really have some nerve telling me to get over myself. You do not have the slightest clue about my personality, and you certainly cannot tell from a post on a message board. You think you can just bully people and run them off with your rudeness. You don't own Greek Chat and I did not do anything to warrant such a barrage of hate and disrespect.

Jumping down your throat???
Hate???
Disrespect???

Ummm . . . did you notice the ;) ? I think you are too thin-skinned to be on the internet if you are going to react like that to an innocuous comment like MC's. I haven't noticed any comments about your personality - Really, you are overreacting. We at GC all have to have a sense of humour about ourselves. Today you are the subject of a little laugh, tomorrow it will be me or Mystic Cat.

When you tell someone to "f--ing forget about" you do show some of your personality. No one here is jumping down your throat. We are entitled to our opinions just like you are to yours. You really just need to take a chill pill. There is no one here that is bullying you, or "running you off with rudeness."

You decided to post a story that YOU thought was funny, but that some of us didn't. I personally found it rude, on your part.

Sheez! Relax!! The person at Sonic may just have been yanking your chain. (Evidently, it worked.)

Holy crap dude. Relax! This is supposed to be a light hearted thread!

lol go ahead and start. I have a feeling you're going to type something that's going to make me laugh really hard.:D

I'll start. When I was in highschool back in Mn. I had this teacher who said Ponderosa goes right through him, like about 15 minutes after eating it.:eek:

This just reminded me of the time my friend started to have sex with her boyfriend right after they "vowed abstinence." :rolleyes: She started to feel guilty and said "Get off!"

He said, "Hold on, I'm trying." :o She had to clarify "No, off of ME." Bwahahaha!

http://s59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...chill_pill.jpg

When I was working at the bullseye, I had a realization. Most people who are crappy a giving customer service (fast food people who are rude, store personnel who ignore customers) are that way because they've been mistreated by customers. I tried my darnedest every day to be really nice and friendly all the time, but some days it was so hard because every time I turned around I got yelled at. While getting yelled at, I would employ my "blank stare."

yeah, pretty much

people at the video store were mean

/hijack

they are supposed to be building a sonic's near my work, but haven't seemed to have started yet.

I'm going to be laughing about this for days.

Yes, you are right. I misunderstood. I apologize to everyone.

^^It's okay. :)

Sonic has made me mad by opening the closest location all the way where I used to work that I should have quit anyway before I did because it was too far away from where I used to live which puts it at almost an hour away from here where I work now (about 30-45mins. from down town, all the way out by 288)

I think Bullet's has sesame seeds.

No problem. ;)

LOL. Yeah, our kids have to deal with us doing the old tried-and-true "I don't know, can you?" when they ask if they can have or do something.

Back to fast-food . . . .

Remember when you were a kid, in elementary school, and you saw the menu for your cafeteria? You thought, “Yes! It’s pizza and tater tots day!” You’d be all excited and amped up. All of the other kids would be thrilled, too. It’d be on your mind ALL morning, as you were bored as hell in class, and starving because you didn’t eat enough breakfast.

Finally it’s lunchtime. You grab your money and head to the café.

Immediately when you walk in, you realize that the room has a funny smell. It usually does, but on this particular day, it’s slightly different. You ignore it and run, attempting to be as close to the front of the line as possible. You grab your tray and wait patiently while the kids who ran just a little bit faster get their food.

The kid in front of you is picking his nose and eating it, and you’re pretty sure he hasn’t combed his hair in a week. He gets his tater tots, and after scratching his head and shoving his finger 5 inches up his nose, he picks up a tot and eats it.

The girl behind you keeps talking to you about something that you care nothing about. She bumps into you repeatedly. You’re not sure if she’s doing it on purpose because she likes you, or if she’s simply clueless and annoying as hell. Either way, you don’t care. You feel like punching her in the face.

At last, it’s your turn. You see the pizza. You see the tots. They’re within arm’s reach, but they’re behind glass. But through that dirty glass, you can see that the food really isn’t living up to your expectations. The tots are falling apart, and the pizza looks like something out of a slasher movie with the inordinate amount of sauce that’s on it. You think, “Hey, looks can be deceiving… it’s pizza and taters!” All you have to do is wait for some nice lady to scoop up the tots in that big metal spoon, drop them onto a plate, and hand them to you. It’s happening. They’re falling. She’s handing you the plate… and then you look up and realize that the woman who just handed them to you is quite possibly the nastiest person you’ve ever seen. She’s the ogre of the lunchroom and she just handed you your food. You start to second guess the quality of what’s been put on your plate. You’re pretty sure you either won’t eat, or you’ll eat and possibly die. Decisions, decisions.

That’s Ponderosa. You get excited to go out to eat. You arrive and see pictures and descriptions of what appears to be delicious food. There’s a weird smell, but you choose to ignore it. You get to the food and realize that to classify it as such should be considered a crime. Someone reaches around you to refill one of the silver trays. You glance at them for only a moment, but it leaves enough of an impression for you to know that if you looked like that, you’d probably kill yourself. You look to your right, you look to your left, and you become aware of the fact that you’re the only person in there who hasn’t a.) skipped a shower that morning, b.) married their cousin, or c.) been on Ricki Lake or Jerry Springer at some point in your life. You debate as to whether or not you should eat the food. You do. And you hate yourself for the next three days. Or at least until you can wash that disgusting smell out of your clothes.

Ahahahahahh ewwwwwwww! <3 <3 <3

Yes, I remember when I was working (at both food & retail places) I'd try my hardest to give good customer service b/c that is how i'd wanna be treated. But sheeesh, some people are not even worth it. Some days, the "good" customers would make up for the bad ones, but then there were days where it was just one bad customer after another.

Sometimes when people were flipping out I would TRY HARDER. I know it doesn't make ANY sense whatsoever, but I kept thinking to myself "I am smart and educated and nice and if I try my damndest, this person HAS to see it, then they will love me and tell all my bosses I'm the best damned team member they ever had."

It never worked.

lol jessica, I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing because I know how you feel. Believe me, I do. (((hug))):)

My God this post is hilarious. lol lol :D The lunch room memories. Ponderosa is SO gross.

Speaking of the lunch room school days, I remember we had cold lunch and hot lunch. I remember a lot of kids would say it was usually the poor kids that would buy the lunch tickets. They would eat the disgusting stuff in the cafeteria. I didn't think they were poor, but a lot of kids used to tease them because of it. My mom used to pack my lunch for me, and I would buy the milk tickets. I remember they had two separate lines. A hot lunch line and a cold lunch line before going to the cafeteria.

Did anyone have the whole lunch ticket thing?

^^ Now it's starting to come back to me.

We had these mini envelopes that were a little larger than a credit card. You'd put your name on them and put an X over the day that you wanted lunch. Then you'd put your money inside. I forget who we'd give it to or how they'd keep track, though.

And we had a hot lunch and cold lunch, too. Although I can't remember what was offered in either one. It was tooooo long ago!

Yet more restaurants we don't have here...Ponderosa, Shoney's...

Do y'all have Old Country Buffet? I've never been there, but we have a few at some malls around here.

ewww...We had Old Country Buffet, but they closed down and came back as Barnhill's. Same crappy food, different name. Were all the Old Country Buffets there in deserted Quincy's (or some other cheap steakhouse) buildings?

Old Country Buffet, Ponderosa, Golden Corral, Hoss's...

Northwest PA loves their buffets.

My aunt used to eat at Barnhill's EVERY NIGHT. When I came to visit, I knew where we were going. It was good I suppose, but they always seemed to be out of what I wanted.

Mmmm....lunchroom memories. :) It's the only thing I miss about high school. My favorites were tortellini day and clam-chowder-in-a-breadbowl day. (Yes, the reputation of bourgeois Californian private school lives on;)).

Oh, the OCB....That place makes me laugh. When one of my friends was teaching, she was talking to her class about her birthday dinner plans. One of her students looked straight at her and asked, "Oh! Is he taking you somewhere fancy like the Old Country Buffet?"

It has now become a trademark saying among our friends and we start rolling every time.

I sure hope so! They're a waste of space.

soul food restaurants aren't the same as fast food

way better chicken, and waffles, and...everything else

That's the way it was at my school too. I can't remember who it was we gave the money to though. But our cold lunch was the same as bringing your own lunch. Hot lunch is what the cafeteria gave us.

I only ate hot lunch one time. I only would get the milk tickets to get milk. One thing I do remember is my mom chewing out our school principal. My God she was SO mad. I was in 1st grade and it was the 1st, only and last time I ate hot lunch. I don't remember what it was on my plate but it looked gross so I wouldn't eat it. I went to a private school, so we had to wear uniforms, plaid skirts with a white shirt, burgundy ties and a dark blue or black sweater as I can remember. Anyway, It was a Catholic school, with Nuns and Christian brothers. One of them said "young lady you will not be allowed to go out for recess until you have finished your lunch". Well, me being me, I started crying, but at the same time being the stubborn, spoiled brat that I was:p I still wouldn't eat it. So, they called my mom and told her what happened. I guess they thought she was going to be o.k. with it. She was so mad, she actually showed up at my school, and she went straight to the cafeteria where I was sitting and crying.:(:D When I saw her I started boo hoo crying lol :p then at that point she was livid. She took me up to the principal's office and this is what she said to her. "You have some nerve denying my daughter her play time, when my husband and I pay full tuition for my daughter to go to school here. If she doesn't want to eat the food that "WE" pay for then she does not have to. If either one of us ever gets a call like this again, we will pull my daughter out of this school immediately! Is that understood!!?" She said some other stuff too. I remember that day vividly because I've never seen my mom that mad before. After that they were so nice to me. lol lol :D

I think if I'd been the principal, I would have said "let me save you the trouble." :rolleyes: