Something else to bitch about people, Trekker4747: they'll give you cancer ;-)
10 Ways Trekker Arbitrarily Judges You at the Fast Food Line
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You think CUSTOMERS are bad? You should hear about the dumbass who served me at the deli counter today.
Drive-Thru
6. Know what you want ahead of time!
5. With multiple people in the car, figure out what everyone wants before getting in line!
4. Don't leave huge amounts of space between the car in front of you!
3. Pay attention so that when the car in front of you pulls ahead you can follow them so the the guy behind can place their order!
2. Have your money ready before you get to the window!
1. For very large or complicated orders, GO INSIDE!
6. Know what you want ahead of time!
5. With multiple people in the car, figure out what everyone wants before getting in line!
4. Don't leave huge amounts of space between the car in front of you!
3. Pay attention so that when the car in front of you pulls ahead you can follow them so the the guy behind can place their order!
2. Have your money ready before you get to the window!
1. For very large or complicated orders, GO INSIDE!
Tough luck for you on this one. I do this with my daughter for her sake, not yours. She learns how to interact in a structured situation like this. It's good for kids. We always figure out what she'd like to order beforehand but then she places her own order. It's not so she can be cute, because she's extraordinarly cute anyway!
I don't have kids, but even I can see the value in this. My parents did it with me, and dollars to donuts, Trekker's did it with him too.
Totally agree with both of you. That I've seen, most decent parents will do this, though maybe not during the noon rush.
I also agree with all of your points except this one.
If I'm sitting in a drive-thru with my engine running (for the ac) and the person ahead of me moves, I'll move with no problem. However, normally, I shut the engine off while I wait in the drive-thru. If I've done that, there's no way in hell I'm firing it up to move one car length unless the guy in front of me is the one at the window and is leaving. Anyone behind me can afford to wait a few extra seconds.
Two problems with this.
1. If a group of 10 comes in because six want to eat in that establishment and the remaining four want food from the Carl's Jr next door, but want to sit with their friends, then who are you to judge? Of course, if you're in McDonalds and everyone comes in with Burger King food, that is totally different.
2. If I was planning on shopping in your store to begin with and wanted a Big Mac and fries, I'll get them to go, buy a drink at your store, and sit in your store's dining area with your sale ad, reading to see if there's anything in the ad that I want. Yet you act like this is a damned crime, Trekker
Tough luck for you on this one. I do this with my daughter for her sake, not yours. She learns how to interact in a structured situation like this. It's good for kids. We always figure out what she'd like to order beforehand but then she places her own order. It's not so she can be cute, because she's extraordinarly cute anyway!
I don't have kids, but even I can see the value in this. My parents did it with me, and dollars to donuts, Trekker's did it with him too.
Anti-social behavior is clearly on the rise with teens and young adults, one of the big reasons why is parent's are so paranoid about letting them interact with "strangers" when they're young.
Trekker complains when he sees rude kids yet he complains when he sees parents trying to teach them social behavior. I think Trekker just likes to complain.
Mr Awe
I used to work at a Sonny's BBQ and it was all I could do not to laugh at the fatasses that would come in on all you can eat rib night, order ten reorders of ribs, fries, coleslaw, our greasy-ass garlic bread and then wash it down with a "Diet" coke. Like it was going to help them lose weight
Trekker complains when he sees rude kids yet he complains when he sees parents trying to teach them social behavior. I think Trekker just likes to complain.
Mr Awe
Yeah, Trekker, you need to learn to take a deep breath, enjoy life and not take it so seriously. Otherwise, 30-40 years down the road, you're going to end up spending your afternoons out on your front porch in an old, rickety rocking chair with a pair of binoculars in one hand and a shotgun in the other.
I used to work at a Sonny's BBQ and it was all I could do not to laugh at the fatasses that would come in on all you can eat rib night, order ten reorders of ribs, fries, coleslaw, our greasy-ass garlic bread and then wash it down with a "Diet" coke. Like it was going to help them lose weight
I don't get why any of this is that strange or a big deal. I order diet drinks with fast food, or make random fat-free substitutions in high calorie food. I don't expect it to help me lose weight, but I know it's still a slightly lower calorie meal than what I would be having otherwise.
If I eliminated all of these fat-free or diet substitutions from my meals, I would certainly be heavier than I am now. Why would you laugh at someone for their meal choices?
^It's not so much laughing at their meal choices, but laughing because after ordering the unhealthiest thing on the planet, they specifically MENTION they're ordering the diet coke in an attempt to cancel the meal out.
Well, that seems a bit exaggerated. I highly doubt there are many people who order, for example, 1000+ calorie meals and then order a diet drink and believe that in doing so, they will not actually take in the calories from that meal. I can't believe that these people you speak of are entirely serious if they say things like that.
If they really do believe that and express so in front of you, then it is ignorance on their part. Ignorance at how our bodies work and what nutrition is about. And I don't really see the point in laughing at such ignorance, either. Such attitudes can lead to severe health problems down the road and it would be a pity if such people were merely laughed at and not properly educated.
If they really do believe that and express so in front of you, then it is ignorance on their part. Ignorance at how our bodies work and what nutrition is about. And I don't really see the point in laughing at such ignorance, either. Such attitudes can lead to severe health problems down the road and it would be a pity if such people were merely laughed at and not properly educated.
They're joking. They probably realize that it seems silly.
When I was in college, I worked at Ruby Tuesday's and there was this guy who had to weigh about 400 pounds who came in for lunch every Saturday, ordered a Collossal burger, double fries, loaded potato skins and this ridiculous sundae. And a diet coke. Every time he said "gotta get the diet to make up for dessert!". It was his little joke to poke fun at himself. Anyway, he's probably long dead now, but he was a nice guy. Great tipper.
I always order diet drinks when getting fast food, I find regular Coke very unpleasantly sweet, and it has a horrid after-taste. I'd rather no drink at all than regular coke. It has nothing to do with calorie intake. Plus, I'm often getting food in any context with a friend who is diabetic, so he has to order diet drinks and rather than risk them or us confusing the cups, we just all get diet.
Besides, even if you were getting diet drinks for health reasons, that's hardly worth judging. Yes, it would be better if you didn't have the McDonalds in the first place, but why is it worth looking down on someone who doesn't want a large cup of what is essentially sugar-water on top of that? Diet Coke is essentially free of anything approaching nutritional value; nutrionally, it's neutral. Dentists have other legitimate issues with it, and there are always questions over the safety of aspartame (unless the lawyers get involved), but from a nutritional standpoint, it's not an issue. 'Real' Coke is full of a truly disgusting volume of sugar. I can see wanting to cut that out of your meal, especially given the size of drinks commonly served in the USA.
Besides, even if you were getting diet drinks for health reasons, that's hardly worth judging. Yes, it would be better if you didn't have the McDonalds in the first place, but why is it worth looking down on someone who doesn't want a large cup of what is essentially sugar-water on top of that? Diet Coke is essentially free of anything approaching nutritional value; nutrionally, it's neutral. Dentists have other legitimate issues with it, and there are always questions over the safety of aspartame (unless the lawyers get involved), but from a nutritional standpoint, it's not an issue. 'Real' Coke is full of a truly disgusting volume of sugar. I can see wanting to cut that out of your meal, especially given the size of drinks commonly served in the USA.
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Rocketman
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^ What I find is that diet drinks don't quench thirst, but make me thirstier. I had a friend hypothesize that the gigantic aspartame molecules actually raise the osmotic pressure in your mouth, causing the cells in your palate to expunge water rather than absorb it.
I wait on people like that. Colossal burgers, sides of bacon, salads drenched in ranch ordering Diets and I realize when they're joking. These people at Sonny's weren't.
People like to make fun of others and the overweight are always open season. Maybe they order diet without any false beliefs whatsoever. Overweight doesn't equate to stupid. It's probably more about the taste of the drink.
When I order something and the clerk suggests "nonfat?" I might give them a swirly.
Most of the people who mock the overweight? Are still running on youth metabolism. See if they sing the same tune when they hit 35 in a dead end job.
When I order something and the clerk suggests "nonfat?" I might give them a swirly.
Most of the people who mock the overweight? Are still running on youth metabolism. See if they sing the same tune when they hit 35 in a dead end job.
Unlikely; the water content dwarfs the aspartame content, the concentration is much too low to cause that effect - the saliva in your mouth has plenty of very large molecules in it, amylase for example, and it doesn't upset the osmotic balance and make you thirsty. And aspartame is on the order of thousands of times smaller. The caffeine in regular coke is almost as large, and yet you don't feel the same effect, I assume?
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Rocketman
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^ No, I don't. It may be completely imagined, of course, but I've talked to several people who, independently, felt the same way about diet soft drinks.
Yeah, after I posted I realized that I had completely overlooked this simple, yet obvious factor. Oh well.
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