>feed an army and it all has to be made with the strictest of specifications,

 

I don't think people really don't want pickles or don't want tomatoes or whatever, it's just to get attention.

 

 

 

I hate the following things: pickles, ketchup, mustard, ranch sauce, tarter sauce, Mac sauce (whatever it is), barbecue sauce... and more.

 

Then you better damn well go inside and order your food.  The drive-thru is for convenience, not for servicing picky eaters.

I hate drive-thrus too. I only use them when forced.

When 2 people come into the restaurant i work at, ask for a 2 burner table (usually reserved for parties of 5 - 6 people), are seated at 5:07 pm and dont leave until after 9, on a saturday night! For 2 people to eat four courses should take no longer than 90 minutes. This isnt your local Starbucks or Panera shop. When you're finished eating pay your d*mn bill and move on so that we can turn the table for guests who are patiently (trying to be) waiting. Dont sit at an empty table sipping your coffee and talking about your fantasy land lives you live. 

2 burner table?  Do you work at a hibachi place or something?

2 burner table? Do you work at a hibachi place or something?

 

Fondue restaurant.

2 burner table?  Do you work at a hibachi place or something?

 

Fondue restaurant.

 

Oh lawd.  You poor thing.

2 burner table? Do you work at a hibachi place or something?

 

Fondue restaurant.

 

Oh lawd. You poor thing.

 

I walk out smelling like burnt cheese and oil every night, and the smell lingers in my car for a few days after too.

One day comes off of my life every time someone walks in the front door and the first thing out of their mouth is, "Wow it smells so good in here."

When I was in high school, I got a job at Red Lobster.  I can't even describe the smell of my car during that time.  I don't know how I had any friends.

LOL.  I smelled like mesquite all the time when i came home from one restaurant I worked at, but that wasn't too bad.  The worst, EVER was when my DH was cooking at Joe's Crap Shack.  His clothes just smelled like VOMIT when he came home, it was awful.  And all the Oxy-Clean in the world couldn't get out the stains in his jackets, they were like nuclear waste. I would never eat there.

 

I walk out smelling like burnt cheese and oil every night, and the smell lingers in my car for a few days after too.

One day comes off of my life every time someone walks in the front door and the first thing out of their mouth is, "Wow it smells so good in here."

 

I knew you were cheesy!

2 burner table? Do you work at a hibachi place or something?

 

 

Fondue restaurant.

 

Oh lawd. You poor thing.

 

I walk out smelling like burnt cheese and oil every night, and the smell lingers in my car for a few days after too.

One day comes off of my life every time someone walks in the front door and the first thing out of their mouth is, "Wow it smells so good in here."

 

My wife works at the same resturant(different location though) and it is a weird smell. It smells good but disgusting at the same time. There is some garlic in the smell too. As for those people you should have dumped hot broth on them at 7 PM to get them out even if it meant foregoing a tip, you would have better off....

Well, Encyclopedias are almost obsolete. I mean, what would we have kids do - look up things in a card catalog if there were no internet? Unless power went away forever and ever, they're going to have the internet back up eventually and that's how most people do research now. I think a bigger, under-utilized resource is the librarian. They know EVERYTHING and what they don't know, they can find out for you pretty quickly. I'm going to teach my kid how to have librarians help them with research as they can pull a lot of relevant information really quickly and tell you how they went about doing it, teaching you how to research more effectively.

 

This fits with one of my pet peeves...people using wikipedia as a source during academic work.  I don't care that some study showed Wikipedia was more accurate than an encyclopedia, it is not an unimpeachable document.  In fact, Encyclopedias should not be used for academic work beyond 5th grade.

Well, Encyclopedias are almost obsolete. I mean, what would we have kids do - look up things in a card catalog if there were no internet? Unless power went away forever and ever, they're going to have the internet back up eventually and that's how most people do research now. I think a bigger, under-utilized resource is the librarian. They know EVERYTHING and what they don't know, they can find out for you pretty quickly. I'm going to teach my kid how to have librarians help them with research as they can pull a lot of relevant information really quickly and tell you how they went about doing it, teaching you how to research more effectively.

 

This fits with one of my pet peeves...people using wikipedia as a source during academic work. I don't care that some study showed Wikipedia was more accurate than an encyclopedia, it is not an unimpeachable document. In fact, Encyclopedias should not be used for academic work beyond 5th grade.

Agreed. Encyclopedias should be used to give you a general idea about something so that you have some idea what to look up when you start doing serious research. The same should apply to most things you can find on the internet.

2 burner table? Do you work at a hibachi place or something?

 

 

Fondue restaurant.

 

Oh lawd. You poor thing.

 

I walk out smelling like burnt cheese and oil every night, and the smell lingers in my car for a few days after too.

One day comes off of my life every time someone walks in the front door and the first thing out of their mouth is, "Wow it smells so good in here."

 

My wife works at the same resturant(different location though) and it is a weird smell. It smells good but disgusting at the same time. There is some garlic in the smell too. As for those people you should have dumped hot broth on them at 7 PM to get them out even if it meant foregoing a tip, you would have better off....

 

I would have been ok losing the tip, but its the lawsuit that would have followed I was worried about.

 

We get groups that come in during homecoming and prom season and I feel absolutely terrible that they have to go the entire dance and after parties carrying that rotten smell around with them.

Well, Encyclopedias are almost obsolete. I mean, what would we have kids do - look up things in a card catalog if there were no internet? Unless power went away forever and ever, they're going to have the internet back up eventually and that's how most people do research now. I think a bigger, under-utilized resource is the librarian. They know EVERYTHING and what they don't know, they can find out for you pretty quickly. I'm going to teach my kid how to have librarians help them with research as they can pull a lot of relevant information really quickly and tell you how they went about doing it, teaching you how to research more effectively.

 

This fits with one of my pet peeves...people using wikipedia as a source during academic work. I don't care that some study showed Wikipedia was more accurate than an encyclopedia, it is not an unimpeachable document. In fact, Encyclopedias should not be used for academic work beyond 5th grade.

 

I had a syllabus last semester that told us to "use a reputable source ie Wikipedia."  It really made me angry.

 

Side note: While I was typing this, my roommate called and told me that her professor in her Econ class gave a lecture on how Mass Transit will never work in this country because people will always want their cars and large "prairie houses." 

 

I no longer value my college education.

I had a syllabus last semester that told us to "use a reputable source ie Wikipedia." It really made me angry.

 

Side note: While I was typing this, my roommate called and told me that her professor in her Econ class gave a lecture on how Mass Transit will never work in this country because people will always want their cars and large "prairie houses."

 

I no longer value my college education.

I have a friend that is a high school teacher and he will not (thank god) accept wikipedia as a source.  The fact that anyone would is a crime and it should be punished as such (felony level, preferably).

Well, Encyclopedias are almost obsolete.  I mean, what would we have kids do - look up things in a card catalog if there were no internet?  Unless power went away forever and ever, they're going to have the internet back up eventually and that's how most people do research now.  I think a bigger, under-utilized resource is the librarian.  They know EVERYTHING and what they don't know, they can find out for you pretty quickly.  I'm going to teach my kid how to have librarians help them with research as they can pull a lot of relevant information really quickly and tell you how they went about doing it, teaching you how to research more effectively. 

 

This fits with one of my pet peeves...people using wikipedia as a source during academic work.  I don't care that some study showed Wikipedia was more accurate than an encyclopedia, it is not an unimpeachable document.  In fact, Encyclopedias should not be used for academic work beyond 5th grade.

 

I had a syllabus last semester that told us to "use a reputable source ie Wikipedia."  It really made me angry.

 

Side note: While I was typing this, my roommate called and told me that her professor in her Econ class gave a lecture on how Mass Transit will never work in this country because people will always want their cars and large "prairie houses." 

 

I no longer value my college education.

 

That's a shame, I think someday you will think differently and value it however.

^Who on earth would call wikipedia a reputable source? What college is that?

 

UW-Milwaukee...but that was during my ill-fated semester long diversion from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning to the School of Letters and Sciences.  Never Again.

 

 

 

Here's a new pet-peave.  My roommate leaves every cupboard door open in the kitchen and bathroom making those already small rooms even smaller.  I hate it.

that's PEEVE.  Poor spelling is one of mine, obviously :)

that's PEEVE.  Poor spelling is one of mine, obviously :)

 

eye no, eye no.  :o  ;D

^Who on earth would call wikipedia a reputable source? What college is that?

 

UW-Milwaukee...but that was during my ill-fated semester long diversion from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning to the School of Letters and Sciences.  Never Again.

 

 

 

Here's a new pet-peave.  My roommate leaves every cupboard door open in the kitchen and bathroom making those already small rooms even smaller.  I hate it.

 

Maybe she's looking for the drive thru window?  LMAO

I hate drive-thrus too. I only use them when forced.

 

I have witnessed people who will wait 20 minutes or more (judging from the number in like and an average of 2 minutes per order) in a drive-thru to eat crap....instead of taking 5 minutes to run into the nearest grocery store to grab an already made deli sandwich some fruit and a drink--and just something much better for them. Lazy...Lazy..Lazy... The results.... FAAAAAAATTTTTT!!!!

I hate it when people add a possessive "s" to store names.  Kroger's, Meijer's, K-Mart's, Wal-Mart's.  Drives me up a wall.

Always happy to help you out. 

 

Possessives in business names

Where a business name is based on a family name, it may or may not take an apostrophe (compare Sainsbury's and Harrods), though in recent times there has been an increasing tendency to drop the apostrophe. Names based on a first name are more likely to take an apostrophe (Joe's Crab Shack). The Apostrophe Protection Society has campaigned for large retailers such as Harrods, Currys and Selfridges to reinstate their missing punctuation. A spokesperson for Barclays plc stated, "It has just disappeared over the years. Barclays is no longer associated with the family name."

 

Yeah, that's great.  But Kroger, Meijer, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, etc. have never been possessive as far as their names go.  The only time an "s" is added is when people go retardo and an add one on themselves.

^you get this a lot in Michigan and i think it started with Ford's because so many people worked at Ford's factory.  When asked where they worked they'd just say "Ford's".

 

I know Meijer is a family name, again from Michigan, so maybe the same thing applied.  (I've been to the city where it started, Greenville, and they don't really have anything marking it. just a plain, normal, newish Meijer store and i think a small plaque...no, i wasn't going there just for that)

People call Ford "Ford's"?!  I'd lose my sh!t if someone said that around me.

People call Ford "Ford's"?! I'd lose my sh!t if someone said that around me.

 

Fords, Chryslers, KMarts, Walmarts, things like that.  That doesn't bug me nearly as much as "Worshington" or "Acrost"

Its possessive because you are referring to the store belonging to Kroger, or Meijer, or Kresge, or Walton.  It would be improper if when asked where you were going to reply:

 

"I am going to Kroger."

 

As far as the other non-family proper noun names, I've never heard someone refer to them as K-Marts, or Wal Marts, as in:

 

"I am going to K-Marts."

By following that rule though, wouldn't it be more correct to call it Wal's Mart then?

Its possessive because you are referring to the store belonging to Kroger, or Meijer, or Kresge, or Walton.   It would be improper if when asked where you were going to reply:

 

"I am going to Kroger."

 

No, it wouldn't  Because that's the name of the store.  Why would you list the owner of the store with a possessive "s" in place of the actual store's name?  You're not making sense.  That's like if you were going to Skyline Chili and told someone, "Hey, I'm going to Lambrinides', you want anything?"

 

 

...  The Apostrophe Protection Society has campaigned for large retailers such as Harrods, Currys and Selfridges to reinstate their missing punctuation ...

 

Is the Apostrophe Protection Society concerned about the equally common form of abuse, where clueless writers use apostrophes when simply expressing plural forms of nouns?

 

No one should be allowed to letter sign's in store's without first presenting a certificate proving that they understand the proper use of apostrophe's. :x

^ Haha.  Agreed.  Also, it's "its" not "it's" unless it's "it is."  :)

I hate it when people add a possessive "s" to store names. Kroger's, Meijer's, K-Mart's, Wal-Mart's. Drives me up a wall.

 

My big one on this is "Lola's."  It's LOLA.

I hate it when people add a possessive "s" to store names. Kroger's, Meijer's, K-Mart's, Wal-Mart's. Drives me up a wall.

 

My big one on this is "Lola's." It's LOLA.

 

What's LOLA?

^ Haha.  Agreed.  Also, it's "its" not "it's" unless it's "it is."  :)

 

Thats quality!  :laugh: :evil:

^ Haha. Agreed. Also, it's "its" not "it's" unless it's "it is." :)

 

Thats quality! :laugh: :evil:

 

DUDE.  That's.  That's.  That's.  Type it with me.

I hate it when people add a possessive "s" to store names.  Kroger's, Meijer's, K-Mart's, Wal-Mart's.  Drives me up a wall.

 

My big one on this is "Lola's."  It's LOLA.

 

What's LOLA?

 

A fabulous restaurant in Cleveland.  Owned by Iron Chef Michael Symon

www.lolabistro.com

 

 

^ Haha. Agreed. Also, it's "its" not "it's" unless it's "it is." :)

 

Thats quality! :laugh: :evil:

 

DUDE. That's. That's. That's. Type it with me.

 

I know I know!

Not sure if I posted this already, but since we're on spelling...

Were, we're and where. In college, surprisingly enough, with most students there is only one spelling. So many people mess that up. Why??

 

Were is this world going to. Where going nowhere with these horrible spellers. We're is some tylenol, I have a headache from this stupidity..

See how annoying that is?

 

Also, there, their, and they're.  Same problems.  Don't elementary schools teach this stuff anymore?

No, it wouldn't  Because that's the name of the store.  Why would you list the owner of the store with a possessive "s" in place of the actual store's name?  You're not making sense.  That's like if you were going to Skyline Chili and told someone, "Hey, I'm going to Lambrinides', you want anything?"

 

 

You need so much help, and I'm only one person.  The word store is implied.  If someone was going to visit you, would they say, "I am going to MoonlightOhio,"  or would they say, "I am going to MoonlightOhio's."?  The noun home, house, place of business, is implied.

 

Sort of like ending a sentence in a preposition.  Which is proper?

 

Where is Kroger's Grocery Store at?  or:

 

Where is Kroger's Grocery Store at, a$$hole?

People who prounounce the first syllable of the word "measure" as "may"

 

And while we're on the subject of grammar, people really need to take 5 minutes to learn the difference between their/there/they're and then/than and further/farther.... the list could go on and on.

I hate it when people add a possessive "s" to store names. Kroger's, Meijer's, K-Mart's, Wal-Mart's. Drives me up a wall.

 

You would hate my father then. He does that to everything. We make fun of him for it...

People who drive 45 in a 25.  Relax, Mario.

I hate it when people add a possessive "s" to store names.  Kroger's, Meijer's, K-Mart's, Wal-Mart's.  Drives me up a wall.

 

Yes...and here's another...when they add the 's' to Anyway.. It is NOT "anyways!" It is just Anyway!

People who drive 45 in a 25. Relax, Mario.

 

Mine is people who drive 25 in a 45.  Wake up, Gertrude.

No, it wouldn't Because that's the name of the store. Why would you list the owner of the store with a possessive "s" in place of the actual store's name? You're not making sense. That's like if you were going to Skyline Chili and told someone, "Hey, I'm going to Lambrinides', you want anything?"

 

 

You need so much help, and I'm only one person. The word store is implied. If someone was going to visit you, would they say, "I am going to MoonlightOhio," or would they say, "I am going to MoonlightOhio's."? The noun home, house, place of business, is implied.

 

Sort of like ending a sentence in a preposition. Which is proper?

 

Where is Kroger's Grocery Store at? or:

 

Where is Kroger's Grocery Store at, a$$hole?

 

Hit a nerve, did we?

 

But you're still wrong.  It's not "Where is Kroger's Grocery Store?"  It's, "Where is THE Kroger Grocery store?"  And you know how I know this?  Because it's Kroger and not Kroger's.  But yes, if someone was coming to visit me, they'd say "Hey, I'm going to Josh's house."  Because the house is mine.  But since Kroger is an establishment, adding a possessive "s" would the equivalent of saying that you're going to the building in which Kroger resides.  And really, how stupid is that?

I hate it when people add a possessive "s" to store names.  Kroger's, Meijer's, K-Mart's, Wal-Mart's.  Drives me up a wall.

 

Yes...and here's another...when they add the 's' to Anyway.. It is NOT "anyways!" It is just Anyway!

 

That kills me, too.  Stop adding "s's", people!

 

 

People who drive 45 in a 25.  Relax, Mario.

 

Mine is people who drive 25 in a 45.  Wake up, Gertrude.

 

That bothers me more than fast drivers.  When I'm in the car, 9 times out of 10, I've got places to be that don't include being behind Grandma.

One pet peeve of mine is hot coffee. I am talking about ultra hot coffee like McDonalds. I like to be able to drink my coffee when I get it, not have to wait 15 minutes for fear of scalding my mouth.

 

 

Mine is people who drive 25 in a 45.  Wake up, Gertrude.

People who drive 25 in a 45 with no idea that everybody is desperately trying to get around them. Pair up two of these Gertrudes on Carnegie ave around E55th and you have yourself an instrant parade! :clap: