Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[closetohumping 17803]

1 hour ago, HRSchenker said:

Went to eat at one of my favorite Dallas restaurants and the guy at the front asked me "can I help you?" in the most abrasive tone possible. I told him "table for 2" and he responded "2 what?". "2 people....for here". "We don't have a server with a name that sounds like that". Someone had to shake him out of the trance he was in so he could realize I was asking for a table for 2 so we could eat at the fucking restaurant. He walks us to the table and continued on saying "ohhhh I thought you were looking for a table with a specific server". I just stared at him. No reaction. This is the same guy who mocked me last Christmas for spelling my wife's name after he kept asking me over and over what I said. "Yeah buddy I can spell". Well obviously not if you're having to ask me over and over again. 

The concept is awesome but the execution is terrible. That was our setup growing up and my mom would always do dishes during movies or TV shows. This was before DVRs so you couldn't just pause and wait for mom to stop banging plates together. The list of shows where I missed most of the episodes because she's slamming dishes is endless. 

Dallas has some really shitty service folks 

[elfenix 34743]

10 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

The concept is awesome but the execution is terrible. That was our setup growing up and my mom would always do dishes during movies or TV shows. This was before DVRs so you couldn't just pause and wait for mom to stop banging plates together. The list of shows where I missed most of the episodes because she's slamming dishes is endless. 

dishes slamming, ice cubes being dispensed, garbage disposal running, etc. could barely hear myself think

[High Plains Drifter 11186]

 

Scanning qr codes for a menu. Fuck that shit. 

Waitstaff morons. 

 

 

Taco flats. Have to scan a qr code for their tap beer list. I grumble, bartender says its because the list is updated so often, they can't print paper menus. I order. He says, "oh we don't have that one on draft anymore." 

I say then just bring me a german style pilser, which is what the one I ordered was. He looks at me like I'm speaking German. 

[Armybrat 41385]

We and two plumbers have been sitting here at home for three hours waiting for the utility inspector to come by to check the work that was completed last week.
In the meantime we cannot use our water & toilets.
We have tried to communicate via phone messaging & emails to our local utility provider to no avail, as has the plumbing company.
Am getting very pissed off, as this appointment for the inspection was made last week.

[Bevo&Pevo 5515]

34 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

We and two plumbers have been sitting here at home for three hours waiting for the utility inspector to come by to check the work that was completed last week.
In the meantime we cannot use our water & toilets.
We have tried to communicate via phone messaging & emails to our local utility provider to no avail, as has the plumbing company.
Am getting very pissed off, as this appointment for the inspection was made last week.

Go sit in front of the inspectors haus or ask to use his toilet?

 

We hardly ever speak of it or have to police our own, by this dickhead is the exception.  Bad apple in our barrel.

Student from Orange charged with raining down beer and spit on officer after UT/A&M game

 

Edited December 3 by Bevo&Pevo

[Armybrat 41385]

3 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

We hardly ever speak of it or have to police our own, by this dickhead is the exception.  Bad apple in our barrel.

Student from Orange charged with raining down beer and spit on officer after UT/A&M game

 

Fuck that asshole. 
Handcuff him to the Sully statue.

[Underdog 29161]

Who knew Staten Island was full of attractive mature women. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

5 hours ago, Armybrat said:

We and two plumbers have been sitting here at home for three hours waiting for the utility inspector to come by to check the work that was completed last week.
In the meantime we cannot use our water & toilets.
We have tried to communicate via phone messaging & emails to our local utility provider to no avail, as has the plumbing company.
Am getting very pissed off, as this appointment for the inspection was made last week.

Poop in a box and mail it to the inspection office. 

[InkaUtexas 26859]

9 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Poop in a box and mail it to the inspection office. 

But don't use your return address.

[Armybrat 41385]

Inspector finally showed up at 3pm….only a 6 hour wait after the appointment time. One of the plumbers ran his truck battery down while waiting all day and the other had to jumpstart it when they left at 3:30.

[PvilleStang 2983]

Do you get to bill the inspector for the plumbers time waiting?  Maybe send an invoice to the City of Austin along with a flaming bag of dog poo?

[Sandman 3430]

I go into the office every other week, I rotate with this woman, so we never see each other. Every day, the person in the office has to put the daily filings into a folder and that folder gets put in a filing cabinet. A drawer can fit 6 months of folders in it, so every 6 months you have to start a new drawer. At the beginning of July, I started putting the folders into a new drawer. But when I came back, I noticed she must have forgotten because she put her shit in the wrong drawer. I moved it and didn't say anything.

It has been 6 fucking months and she is still putting her shit in the wrong drawer. I was going to say something but I wanted to see if she would eventually figure it out but nope. I guess she thinks it's like a bag of holding, you can just fill it up forever and it will never get full. If I were a younger man, I might wonder how she could be so oblivious but I'm old and have been married twice, so I know the deal. 

[Superhero 9016]

Dressing in the dark and putting on the wrong belt and having to sit in an all day meeting sucking in your gut because otherwise the belt around your waist hurts like hell.

 

Or could just lose weight, but it's easier to buy a bigger belt.

[Sandman 3430]

3 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Dressing in the dark and putting on the wrong belt

Had a friend do this and he came to work with 2 different loafers on, one black and one brown. 

[AUinHsv 584]

7 minutes ago, Sandman said:

Had a friend do this and he came to work with 2 different loafers on, one black and one brown. 

Had a friend do this with socks. Except we worked for IBM and it was business suits only. He put on red hunting socks by accident

[elfenix 34743]

behind 3 different people with just one working brake light each today. came from the factory with 3 working brake lights. but you fucks only each have 1. fuckers.

 

also, what the fuck is with the epidemic of people hitting their brakes when you merge in behind them on the freeway? swear two or three times a day i slide behind someone only for them to hit their brakes. there's no one for 400' feet in front of them in their lane and no one in the other lanes in front hit their brakes, so i can only assume it's in reaction to me.

[Native Horn 3581]

9 hours ago, elfenix said:

behind 3 different people with just one working brake light each today. came from the factory with 3 working brake lights. but you fucks only each have 1. fuckers.

 

also, what the fuck is with the epidemic of people hitting their brakes when you merge in behind them on the freeway? swear two or three times a day i slide behind someone only for them to hit their brakes. there's no one for 400' feet in front of them in their lane and no one in the other lanes in front hit their brakes, so i can only assume it's in reaction to me.

Be gentle, they're new drivers!  Or at least that's the bumper sticker that seemingly half the cars in Austin are sporting.

[nnm 37894]

40 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

Be gentle, they're new drivers!  Or at least that's the bumper sticker that seemingly half the cars in Austin are sporting.

Those drivers need extra training. Make sure to drift into their lane, tailgate them, and weave right in front of them. It will help with their training. 

[nnm 37894]

 

[mininghorn88 2336]

Most times I park my truck as far away from any other vehicles as possible. I don’t mind the extra distance to walk. Just in the last 5 weeks alone, where I had no choice of where to park, my truck has been hit 3 times. One being a young girl backed into my rear bumper while she was backing out of the parking space behind mine. Fortunately there was no damage to my bumper but messed hers up a bit. Second, someone opened their door into the side of my truck leaving a nice chip in my paint. I have a white truck and now there is a nice quarter inch diameter black spot on my truck. I see it every time I get in my truck. Just today I noticed that someone hit the front of my truck and broke my front license plate holder and put a nice crease in my plate. Just last September someone was vandalizing cars in a parking garage in Shreveport and my truck fell victim to them too. They hit the top of my tailgate and put a big crease in the top of it.

People suck at times.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22274]

1 hour ago, mininghorn88 said:

People suck at all the times.

 

[Sam Lin 3597]

59 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

People suck. at all the times.

 

[elfenix 34743]

i swear there was a thread around here about how much panera and jason's deli suck and now i can't find it. if i could just get jimmy johns to fuck us over we'd never get their shit ass trays of terrible bland sandwiches ever again, just like the other two.

Edited December 6 by elfenix

[52-80 19377]

continuation of my gripe with Outlook: in the old monthly calendar, you could click on a date, and drag out the timeline for the calendar event.  like if you were creating a 2-week long vacation entry. 

now you must click on a single date and fill in the time manually.  in-fucking-furiating.

[High Plains Drifter 11186]

On 12/4/2024 at 4:20 PM, Sandman said:

I go into the office every other week, I rotate with this woman, so we never see each other. Every day, the person in the office has to put the daily filings into a folder and that folder gets put in a filing cabinet. A drawer can fit 6 months of folders in it, so every 6 months you have to start a new drawer. At the beginning of July, I started putting the folders into a new drawer. But when I came back, I noticed she must have forgotten because she put her shit in the wrong drawer. I moved it and didn't say anything.

It has been 6 fucking months and she is still putting her shit in the wrong drawer. I was going to say something but I wanted to see if she would eventually figure it out but nope. I guess she thinks it's like a bag of holding, you can just fill it up forever and it will never get full. If I were a younger man, I might wonder how she could be so oblivious but I'm old and have been married twice, so I know the deal. 

 

Two passive aggressive people in a death match. 

 

 

[royiv 9772]

16 hours ago, elfenix said:

i swear there was a thread around here about how much panera and jason's deli suck and now i can't find it. if i could just get jimmy johns to fuck us over we'd never get their shit ass trays of terrible bland sandwiches ever again, just like the other two.

Any time I get a new assistant the first rule I give them on day one is that ordering Jason’s Deli for lunch is a fireable offense. 

[Iceman 2978]

8 hours ago, 52-80 said:

continuation of my gripe with Outlook: in the old monthly calendar, you could click on a date, and drag out the timeline for the calendar event.  like if you were creating a 2-week long vacation entry. 

now you must click on a single date and fill in the time manually.  in-fucking-furiating.

click the "all day" button. then just choose your ending date.

[elfenix 34743]

5 hours ago, Iceman said:

click the "all day" button. then just choose your ending date.

for some reason our scheduling software ignores all day events. oh you thought you were on vacation all day? sorry, bob bobson scheduled a meeting at 9 am. you should have blanked out 9 am to 5 pm.

Edited December 7 by elfenix

[MissingInAction 25553]

That stupid heart hand sign.

 

[InkaUtexas 26859]

15 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

That stupid heart hand sign.

 

Deserves more rep than I can give.

[elfenix 34743]

12 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Deserves heart hands rep

 

[Brisketexan 106874]

Any time I get a new assistant the first rule I give them on day one is that ordering Jason’s Deli for lunch is a fireable offense. 

The maddening thing is that I really like the Jason’s muffuletta and cup of gumbo combo. But is that available on the catering order? Nope. Sorry, best we can do is a tray of utterly mid ham and turkey sandwiches and shit. We can’t possibly provide you with our best, most popular menu items.

[ajax 2675]

More and more often lately I hear people using the word "comfortability".

The word is comfort. 

[MissingInAction 25553]

11 minutes ago, ajax said:

More and more often lately I hear people using the word "comfortability".

The word is comfort. 

I would like to add "physicality" used by the mouth breathing sports heads.

[52-80 19377]

I wanted to get a set of Dominos to play with the relatives and the local Target-style store only had these and oh my god it is some cheap shit

i mean not only is it a hollow lightweight throwaway, the fucking backside has different numbers from the injection molding or whatever so you can literally just memorize what dominos other players have from looking at rhe back

[Iceman 2978]

get a rock hammer and make your own...

[Native Horn 3581]

13 minutes ago, Iceman said:

get a rock hammer and make your own...

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really.  Get busy living, or get busy making a domino set out of smuggled rocks.

[elfenix 34743]

On 12/7/2024 at 9:44 AM, Brisketexan said:

The maddening thing is that I really like the Jason’s muffuletta and cup of gumbo combo. But is that available on the catering order? Nope. Sorry, best we can do is a tray of utterly mid ham and turkey sandwiches and shit. We can’t possibly provide you with our best, most popular menu items.

I finally convinced our office person to order from the menu (New York Yankee). And then our order got cancelled at 12:15.

That sandwich tray sucks so hard. 

Jimmy Johns is the same way. I'd crush an Italian Night Club. But we get that dumb box of mix and match bullshit cut into 3rds because office workers can't have a normal size sandwich.

[mininghorn88 2336]

1 hour ago, elfenix said:

I finally convinced our office person to order from the menu (New York Yankee). And then our order got cancelled at 12:15.

That sandwich tray sucks so hard. 

Jimmy Johns is the same way. I'd crush an Italian Night Club. But we get that dumb box of mix and match bullshit cut into 3rds because office workers can't have a normal size sandwich.

Reminds me of back in the day when I was still newly married, the ex-wife would go to, or host, baby and wedding showers. There would always be leftover finger sized sandwiches of the worst kind. It couldn’t be some normal ham and cheese sandwich. It had to be some “cute” or “fancy” sandwich like cucumber or some other crazy main ingredient that no one liked.

Edited December 9 by mininghorn88

[PvilleStang 2983]

Feeling y'all for sure!  We get Door Dash lunch on the daily, and try to do a bulk order for everyone or split into two orders to minimize costs.  Last week, another Gen Alpha lunch-badging asshole comes in around lunch, but called a coworker ahead of time, and double-dashes the order, and caused the order to get delayed by 45 minutes.  45 minutes our order was ready and getting cold at the restaurant while the driver waited for his order.  And of course, he was gone by 2pm.  

In general, the epidemic of lunch badging around here is infuriating.  Show up and do the job you're getting overpaid for, and stop taking advantage of the fringe / French benefits.  If only we had an Office Manager with the balls to sit their asses down and put them on notice, but we're a satellite office with no real OM presence. 

[ButtFumble 5286]

God I need a favor

can you require all radio stations to give a 10 minute and a just before warning that they are about to play fucking jellyroll

PS God can you please let them know that jellyroll is not pop, hip hop, urban, jazz, classical, classic rock, heavy metal, country, western, swing, tejano, sports talk, guy talk, politics talk, grunge, or any other thing that 100% of radio stations can try and call it to whip my ass with that same fucking song on every station

[nnm 37894]

Just now, ButtFumble said:

God I need a favor

can you require all radio stations to give a 10 minute and a just before warning that they are about to play fucking jellyroll

PS God can you please let them know that jellyroll is not pop, hip hop, urban, jazz, classical, classic rock, heavy metal, country, western, swing, tejano, sports talk, guy talk, politics talk, grunge, or any other thing that 100% of radio stations can try and call it to whip my ass with that same fucking song on every station

People still listen to terrestrial radio?  

[PvilleStang 2983]

2 hours ago, nnm said:

People still listen to terrestrial radio?  

Every dang day!  Not paying for Sirius XM, thank you!

[nnm 37894]

6 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Every dang day!  Not paying for Sirius XM, thank you!

Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, audiobooks. That’s my car audio library. 

And silence. I’m to the point in my life where I’m ok with driving silently. 

[NWBuck 8629]

12 hours ago, nnm said:

People still listen to terrestrial radio?  

Where else am I going to hear about the new achievements by Red Star Fertilizer and ways to achieve optimal nitrogen levels for my soybeans?

[Iceman 2978]

18 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

God I need a favor

can you require all radio stations to give a 10 minute and a just before warning that they are about to play fucking jellyroll

PS God can you please let them know that jellyroll is not pop, hip hop, urban, jazz, classical, classic rock, heavy metal, country, western, swing, tejano, sports talk, guy talk, politics talk, grunge, or any other thing that 100% of radio stations can try and call it to whip my ass with that same fucking song on every station

Hall & Oats is way overindexed in my market.  I mean really, no Styx or Boston in a given day; but Hall & Oats EVERY fucking day.

Benny & the Jets is the ONLY hit Sir Elton ever had...

I don't get it.

Edited December 12 by Iceman

[mininghorn88 2336]

I am sitting on a plane at the gate waiting to fly from MKE to ATL. Being delayed because they forgot to put fuel in the plane overnight.

[nnm 37894]

6 minutes ago, mininghorn88 said:

I am sitting on a plane at the gate waiting to fly from MKE to ATL. Being delayed because they forgot to put fuel in the plane overnight.

[mininghorn88 2336]

10 minutes ago, nnm said:

Of course it got down into the single digits last night so the system is all frozen so they are having to pump manually.

[baboso 6105]

1 hour ago, Iceman said:

Hall & Oats is way overindexed in my market.  I mean really, no Styx or Boston in a given day; but Hall & Oats EVERY fucking day.

Benny & the Jets is the ONLY hit Sir Elton ever had...

I don't get it.

I would accept that trade if it ensured I would never have to hear Candle in the Wind again.