Urban Legends

I found this really neat website that disproves claims and rumors on just about everything. I've been browsing for the past few hours.

Check it out.

hahaha

Kind of a humorus bit here I heard from DB on PaulMcCartney.com

Good Reasons to Buy a New Car...

1: Your passenger seat is on the National Register of Historic Places.

2: Instead of an air bag, there is a whoopee cushion taped to your steering wheel.

3: You lose the stoplight challenge to a 90 year old on a skate-board.

4: 15 minute Jiffy Lube needs to keep your car for 3 months.

5: When you gas up, the attendant asks, Can I re-duct tape that windshield for you ?

6: While sitting at a stop light, people keep running up to you and asking if anyone was hurt.

7: For the last five years, you've had to settle for making "vroom, vroom" noises while in the driveway.

I especially like #6.

New Beginning

A lot has happened in the past few days, so I haven't really had the time to type.

First thing, I talked to my father. Okay, that doesn't sound too significant, but it's been a long time. If you're reading this, it was really great that I talked to you and I still can't believe you don't like tea.

Second, I have a job interview on Monday for an awesome position. I'll be working for a man who has been a regular at Friday's for far longer than I've been working there. The job itself, from what I've heard so far is okay, but the best part is that I get to travel. And I don't have to pay for it. If all goes well, next month, I'll be going to Brussels, Belgium.

I've been working so much, sleeping so little, and eating such horrible foods that I have become sick. I decided that I will force myself to take little naps and to go back to eating right. It'll be hard on such a strict work schedule, but I think I can handle it.

Oh, and one more thing, when you walk into a store or restaurant, and someone is sitting at the table selling you something, you don't have to buy it. However, it is appreciated if you say something along the lines of "Thank you, but I'm not interested" or "I'll keep you in mind". Please don't rudely shake your head no and walk off or ignore them. I am guilty of doing that myself, but Friday's has made me do this in front of their restaurant, and now I am on the other side of the fence.

Oh, and one more more thing, here's the seven things I'm grateful for:

1. Being able to talk to my father.
2. Having a window of opportunity open for me.
3. Clean dishes (of which I have none).
4. Thai food.
5. Adult Swim on Cartoon network.
6. Good music.
7. Just finding out I'm an aunt.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'that's funny...'." - Isaac Asimov

Later

It's a short story. Aaron didn't realize that I had stepped out of the car at our front gate and he stepped on the gas. The car lurched forward and my elbow got slammed in the door and the salad I was holding went everywhere. Ouch!

Too Long

I realize it's been way to long since I've updated. I seriously have been neglecting it, and I'm sure I've lost my two readers. My problem is that I get home and I have nothing to say. I come home, complain about work to my roommate, and then take a nap. So, I decided that I can at least save Aaron the ear ache and complain about work here.

Nothing of major importance happened today, but I will recount two incidences that happened to me within the last few months of my employment at T.G.I. Friday's:

1. I was standing up at the front, greeting people as they came in, when a tall man with a mustache came in looking very angry. As I started to welcome him to the restaurant, he ignored me and proceeded into the bar and sat down staring at the woman he sat next to. She didn't notice him and continued to talk, giggle, and flirt with her date. Five minutes later, the mustache man walked over to me looking even angrier than before. He motioned me aside and asked me, "Can you tell that woman in the black dress who is talking to that guy that her husband came in and was sitting down next to her for five minutes?" With that, he walked out of the door. I was completely speechless. Did he actually expect me to walk over to his wife and announce what could possibly be the end of her marriage? Fortunately, a waitress standing nearby was perfectly willing to do just that. She walked over to the woman and whispered the message into the wife's ear. The woman just shrugged her shoulders and continued to talk to her date. We were amazed. A minute or two later, the husband walked back into the bar and picked up her purse. It took a couple of minutes for her to realize her purse was gone. She freaked out for about thirty seconds until her date pointed out the mustache man who was holding it. The husband ran out of the restaurant with her purse and the wife ran after him with tears in her eyes, screaming for him to come back and she was sorry.

Amazing.

2. I was working in To Go one morning, when a flustered looking man walked in. Without saying hi or even indicating that this was the first time we'd ever seen each other, he proceeded to order. He ordered food off of the "Jack Daniels" menu and asked for extra JD GLAZE and ranch dressing. We have a policy at that particular store that we have to charge extra for any additional dressing or glaze that does not belong to what was ordered. I could give him the JD GLAZE for free, but I had to charge him for the ranch. After I explained this to this man, he muttered "Sure, any way you can screw a customer." I often hear complaints like this, so I wasn't taken aback. I told him what I tell everyone: "If it was up to me, all the food would be free." Usually I say this jokingly and we all get a good chuckle out of it, I charge them and we all go home happy. Not so with this man. He just gave me a cold look and made sure I wasn't going to charge him for the JD GLAZE. After I gave him the total, he asked, "When do I get my $8 off?" (We have a promotion at that location that the person who picks up the to go orders for orders $50 or more gets their meal for free up to $8). I told him that I had to get a manager to give the discount. I went into the kitchen to tell the manager to give the jerk his discount and to bag his order. The customer asked the manager what my name was and where the head manger was. Joe, the manager, told the customer that she was on vacation and would be back on Monday. Soon after that, I came out of the kitchen carrying 8 bags of food all by myself. After placing them on the bar, I asked the customer if he'd like me to help him take the bags to his car (I asked in my nicest voice possible to hide the extreme irritation). He then told me in these EXACT words, "No, I don't think you're capable of that." This was the last straw. I then pointed out to him that I was the one who brought all 8 of the bags to the bar in the first place. He then told me that if I continued to talk to him like that, he'd leave. Joe then told me to go to the back while he talked to the customer. I was steaming. Before he left he managed to tell the hostess "I hope she marries rich, because she'll never make it as a waitress." Right, Jerk.

Three days later, my head manager received an email with the following details (though these points are paraphrased, they are not exaggerated. These points were really made):

A. I told him I would charge him for the extra JD GLAZE even after I told him that I would only charge him for the ranch.
B. I told him if he didn't like it, he could go somewhere else and I'll give all of his food away for free.
C. I was just there to look pretty and the manager actually had to ring everything up.
D. That Joe told him that our head manager was out golfing and couldn't be bothered with details at Friday's.


I've never had someone blatantly lie right in front of me like that, and frankly it's appalling.

Anyway, that's pretty much how my next updates will be, except shorter and some of them will be much happier. I'm also working on getting more to this site and possibly even getting a forum. I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, if you have any ideas on what I can do for this site, email me.