Pet peeves

[Kevin Slater]

1) My purchase comes to $5.44. I hand the cash wench $6.19, and they look at me stupefied and then try to hand the nickels and pennies back to me. I have to work to convince them it's right, I'm getting rid of my smaller coins. Trust me, you've got a computer right in front of you to help out with the advanced mathematics, nobody's hiring you to think, fella. Just punch in the numbers and give me my quarters, daddy's got laundry to do.

 

2) I go to a bar with some adorable young friends. The bouncer cards the both of them. When I get to him, I either

a) hand him my ID and he scoffs at me because I haven't seen 21 since Bush the elder was in office, or

b) I don't hand him my ID and he glares at me to say "Asshole, didn't you just see me card your two buddies?"

 

Kevin Slater

[bigvalboy]

Kevin..LOL I stopped years ago trying to give these kids change so that I could pocket quarters..never works. They live in a computer generated age, that does everything for them.

 

And the bar ID thing. I go out frequently with my younger ex-coworkers. Of course they always get carded, but I am past even that age of questioning whether or not he should ask me for ID...LOL Our eyes usually meet and he just motions me in. I used to try and joke with them about it, but they usually don't find my humor funny. If he is really cute I might say "What no ID, dude you're breaking my heart here" that usually gets a smile...

[+ Charlie]

I was never carded in bars when I was a teenager, because I looked older than I was. But I have been made to show ID in supermarkets to buy alcohol, even though I am retired, and look it.

 

In PA, senior citizens can ride public transport free if they show their Medicare card. When my partner tried to do that in Philly a couple of years ago, they refused to believe it was his card; he was 74, and looked it.

[Diverdan]

If you buy alcohol at any bar at O'Hare airport and a lot of other airports, you will be carded no matter how old you are or how old you look, even in the airline's clubs. I get a kick out of being carded and use the occasion to kid with the bartender if he is young and cute. It has gottne me a couple of telephone numbers on a napkin... but I have never followed up on them... I guess I should change my behavior !!!

[+ Oliver]

...he was 74, and looked it.

 

It's good thing he doesn't read this!

[OneFinger]

...I am past even that age of questioning whether or not he should ask me for ID...

Unfortunately, in Utah they've passed a law where EVERYONE has to show ID at the bar. The ID is scanned and kept on-line for a period of time (30 days?).

 

I went to lunch at a local bar with a co-worker who was well beyond the legal age. They didn't have their ID on them and couldn't get in without having their ID scanned.

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

Twice this week when picking up my ritual XL coffee at Tim Horton's I gave the cashier (different one each time) the exact change of $1.90 and was given a dime back in change.

[Njbaseballjock]

Do you ever wonder where the cashier would be working if they were not working there? What bugs me the most is when the cashier stares into the change drawer trying to decide how to make the change. Geez, the register computes it for you fella! Sometimes, I think the person is trying to decide the difference between a dime and a nickel. Here's a tip: the nickel is larger but not as big as a quarter.

 

But, my real peeve is when I see someone at the self-service bakery display and the person touches every roll with his bare hand before making a selection!

[instudiocity]

At 22, I was the only member of my 8 person table who was of age. The waitress started with me asking for an ID. I said, "Really? Are you going to card all of us?" She looked at my ID and served everyone alcohol.

 

Today, I was at the grocery store buying bottle of wine. The cashier asked me for my ID and I removed my hat, displaying my glorious WHITE hair. He laughed and said, "I wish everyone who comes through my line has a sense of humor about getting carded."

[Kevin Slater]

Do you ever wonder where the cashier would be working if they were not working there?

 

Now that's a fun game to play. How about your favorite escort? There's a rather dim cohort of mine here in NYC who is an excellent and very successful escort, but comes with a sense of entitlement and the assumption that if he weren't doing this, he'd be some captain of industry. I hate to break it to him, but if not for his schlong, he'd be a welder's assistant.

 

Kevin Slater

[maxwellissmart]

1) My purchase comes to $5.44. I hand the cash wench $6.19, and they look at me stupefied and then try to hand the nickels and pennies back to me. I have to work to convince them it's right, I'm getting rid of my smaller coins. Trust me, you've got a computer right in front of you to help out with the advanced mathematics, nobody's hiring you to think, fella. Just punch in the numbers and give me my quarters, daddy's got laundry to do.

 

2) I go to a bar with some adorable young friends. The bouncer cards the both of them. When I get to him, I either

a) hand him my ID and he scoffs at me because I haven't seen 21 since Bush the elder was in office, or

b) I don't hand him my ID and he glares at me to say "Asshole, didn't you just see me card your two buddies?"

 

Kevin Slater

 

1) People who ring you up in total silence

2) People who have inappropriate tip cups, like at Baskin-Robbins

[raulgmanzo]

... The bouncer cards the both of them. When I get to him, I either

a) hand him my ID and he scoffs at me because I haven't seen 21 since Bush the elder was in office, or...

 

Here in Chicago nightclubs seem to card almost everyone even if they haven't seen 21 since the bush was ablaze and talking to Charlton Heston or EVEN Moses himself.

 

...Today, I was at the grocery store buying bottle of wine. The cashier asked me for my ID...

At a couple groceries here an underage cashier along with asking for ID will ask the customer to press the liquor or enter button on the register.

I guess it is illegal for minors to sell alcohol so technically maybe the customer is selling the liquor to himself?

 

Liquor laws are strange.

[Decatur Guy]

You know, I'm going to have to cut these cashiers some slack -- not a whole lot but some.

 

I am college-educated and have done well in school, my job and on SATs and such. I can locate literally thousands of cities and features on a map. In college, my final in geography was to free-hand draw a map of Africa, outline the shape of each nation, locate its capital and place in 50 geographical features such as rivers, mountain ranges, etc. I made an A+. Though I no longer can, I once could name every Roman Empire leader, in order. I do rather well in geometry, and understand the principals of algebra and how to calculate percentages, etc.

 

But I cannot for the life of me add and subtract numbers beyond the very basics. For instance, I can't subtract $2.47 from $5.02 in my head. I can't process more than a single column of numbers, and only a few of those. It take me MINUTES to add up a score in a Yatzhee game.

 

Best as I can explain it, I can't "save" the first calculation in my head as I go for the second one. So I have to add 9 + 7 + 3 + 4 +19, I might can do the first four and come up with 23 just fine, but I freeze up adding 23 + 19 to get 42. When I carry the "1" from adding 3 + 9, and then go to add up 2 + 1 + 1 for 4, I forget what the 3 and the 9 added up to. If it's not written out, I'm hopeless.

 

Put me in a noisy public situation, and I really freeze up on math. I also can't remember a telephone number if you tell it to me. If you don't say it slow, I can't even right it down. I sometimes have to listen to messages four or five times to get a telephone number.

 

So I sympathize -- to a degree. But CLEARLY, when someone hands you an odd amount of change, it's to make more even change, like for quarters. Just punch into the register and let it do the math for you. Geez. Now even I can figure that out.

[Guest fourrealstud]

For me it is people that lie....

[nate_sf]

I've been carded buying non-alcoholic beer at the supermarket. Apparently some code comes up on the register when they scan it, and they're obliged to ask for ID. So not only am I old enough to be their father (or nearly old enough, thank you!), I need to show ID to buy near-beer. I know it's not the cashier's call, but it's absurd all the same.

[+ azdr0710]

people who drive in the left lane, but aren't passing anybody.....

[gallahadesquire]

people who drive in the left lane, but aren't passing anybody.....

 

Move to Massachusetts. Everyone drives to the left. It makes driving in England so much easier - one is already used to driving to the far left.

[+ Tygerscent]

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2). Taking the fortune cookies out of Ben & Jerry's, Lin-sanity ice cream because some people thought the cookies were hateful and racist~

3). That Tina Faye and I were not childhood friends~

 

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[instudiocity]

I've been carded buying non-alcoholic beer at the supermarket. Apparently some code comes up on the register when they scan it, and they're obliged to ask for ID. So not only am I old enough to be their father (or nearly old enough, thank you!), I need to show ID to buy near-beer. I know it's not the cashier's call, but it's absurd all the same.

They have to put in a birthdate, I tell 'em 1/1/91 just for kicks.

 

Most cashiers use one they know, either their own birthdate or just some random date they know makes you 21. But I'm afraid the programmers have figured that out and now require unique dates.

[SteveEscort]

Most outlets in England do "Challenge 25" where if you look under 25 you have to provide ID to purchase alcohol in a bar or supermarket.

[+ Oliver]

OK - they carded me until I was 30. Why don't they card me now for a senior discount?

[orbital sander]

For me it is people that lie....

 

Where do you find people that do not lie?

[leigh.bess.toad]

OK - they carded me until I was 30. Why don't they card me now for a senior discount?

 

That's always been one of the two signs of aging to me. First is when you get that LOVELY greeting inviting you to join AARP. And the second is having some whipersnapper give you the senior citizen discount at a store or restaurant. And I'm not quite old enough for their discount. Thanks for the 50 cents you saved me. I'll be spending it on my therapist dealing with looking and feeling older.

 

But I have the same pet peeve about the cashiers too. They look at me like I'm some sort of alien, giving them this odd collection of coins to get a quarter back instead of smaller coins.

 

The only time I've ever gotten carded was going into Secrets/Zeigelds in DC where they card everyone. No exceptions.

[+ Lucky]

I could say that my pet peeve is escorts who list all of their links every time they post, often along with their travel schedule. I think it is totally unnecessary. If I was interested in hiring them I could find those things easily enough, and it gets old seeing them every time they post. I like the escorts who simply post like the rest of us. Granted, some folks have signatures that they think are cute or else define them in some fashion, but I never read them.

 

The reason I prefaced this thread by saying "I could say..." is that I decided not to say it! Why be critical when you know not a single person will change the add-ons at the end of their posts? So, instead I just compliment those who don't need the add-ons! Note: I am not disputing anyone's right to add these items, just the wisdom of it! Another

[Kevin Slater]

Or how 'bout folk who say "I could say... but I won't" when they just did?

 

Kevin Slater