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I wonder if there's a good non-combative way to tell someone in the service industry that they have to pay attention. Like, how many times can you ask for something with 'no cheese' on it and still get a ton of cheese. Hello, lactose intolerance? Not only that, when we tried to get it fixed, she kept getting distracted, again, thinking we wanted to make a new order? How many times do we have to repeat ourselves? When is it okay to be assertive or are you always 'that d**k customer' then?

This reminds me of the time we had to get keys duplicated. They messed up. We came back again, but they didn't want to redo them all in case they didn't work, so just made us one, and really concentrated... and surprise, it worked. Then, we trek all the way back, for a third time, and guess what? The dude makes us our keys but hey, a friend of his comes in the shop, so he talks with that guy at the same time - and what do you know? The newly made keys don't work. (We ended up returning them all and going to a different store... it's irritating because of all the trips all over the place... and being so long without working keys.)

Happy Birthday, Psy!!!!!!!

That's awesome about the dry-cleaning. A friend of mine (who wasn't with us this particular trip) is cursed. He went to this one restaurant and got Coke spilled in his lap. The next time they went (since everyone else still liked the place), it was macaroni and cheese in his lap. They had napkins and stuff but nothing so nice as a dry cleaning offer. He was 'just' wearing jeans but he was out of town. Nowadays whenever we go anywhere, we just hope nothing ends up in his lap. sweatdrop

I understand mistakes do happen. Half the time when I order something 'without bacon' it still ends up on there. Usually I just assume the kitchen didn't read the whole message or was on auto-pilot or something. Most of the time, the people are extremely apologetic and it really doesn't affect my tipping. It's just when someone is obviously not paying attention/paying attention to someone else that it gets irritating - especially when it involves multiple trips and multiple mistakes. Why come to us/tell us to come over if you're not going to pay attention? I guess we should have just asked for a manager, if anything, because at least s/he might actually pay attention to us when s/he says s/he's going to. I hate to go that route though because that seems mean in a 'job/raise threatening' way whereas the problem could really be solved easily with 60 seconds of focus. (Well, in the case of duplicate keys, more like 15 minutes.)

Now I crave quesadilla xd

Pig isn't my choice of meats but reading the description I can think of at least ten people off the top of my head that need to be alerted to this thing's existence. xd

Birthday. Me. Leaving tommorow morning. Cake. Too much.

Well once we went to IHOP while a friend of mine was sick. She asked for no pickles with her burger. When the server comes with the food, there's a pickle next to her hashbrowns so she carefully tries to see where the brine has soaked into and takes a single bite. While the waitress is going back to get more food we joke about how she should say that she's allergic to pickles and send it back. As we're talking about it, she goes into coughing spasms (because she's sick) so when the waitress returns, she's still in the middle of her coughing fit and can only point to the pickle and the waitress goes "O_O;; Oh my gosh are you allergic? I'm so sorry!". We just nod and say she is and she (the waitress) replaces the hash browns with a new order. We were very amused by how well that coincided with our plans inadvertently.

OMG!! You're OLD

I AM ENJOYING GAOGAIGAR A LOT

why didn't I watch this sooner