Stupid Things People Say
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Seriously. I've been asked this several times over my career in this industry. Once I'd shrug off but the number of times I've been asked this is probably in the dozens.
That's Texan code for "you F***ing moron!"
Idiot co-worker: I can't believe I'm late again!I'm going to get fired!
Texan co-worker: (pats idiot on the hand) Bless your heart.
well this was actually on purpose in order to annoy the "food-lady" in school.
we have lot of muslims in my school so they have separate food sometimes. the thing is that one day both the christian food and the veggie was out. the muslim food was some kind of meatballs so i figured, why the hell not? i'm hungry. so i reached for the food and the woman saw it. she slams the lid on it and literally shouts at me "this is for the muslims!" determined to not give up i basically stood at attention and said "i'm a muslim, i swear! and did the cross thing you do when you enter a church. besides my gold cross was hanging completely visible over my shirt. while my friends and i was laughing our asses off she stormed out. never saw her again
we have lot of muslims in my school so they have separate food sometimes. the thing is that one day both the christian food and the veggie was out. the muslim food was some kind of meatballs so i figured, why the hell not? i'm hungry. so i reached for the food and the woman saw it. she slams the lid on it and literally shouts at me "this is for the muslims!" determined to not give up i basically stood at attention and said "i'm a muslim, i swear! and did the cross thing you do when you enter a church. besides my gold cross was hanging completely visible over my shirt. while my friends and i was laughing our asses off she stormed out. never saw her again
A fellow Texas, are you?
Not just Texan - that's used all over the South! Seems to be most effective when said *very* sweetly by a woman. (Being a man, I can't pull it off right without getting weird looks.
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There's also a certain look we give that just sugarcoats the whole phrase.
Not just Texan - that's used all over the South! Seems to be most effective when said *very* sweetly by a woman. (Being a man, I can't pull it off right without getting weird looks.
That phrase just *grinds* on that one last nerve I have. It's worse when the biddy old(er) women are gossiping away in the breakroom.
Out of curiosity (again) how do YOU pronounce "quesadilla"? For some reason I can't let this scenario go. LOL
I'm curious as well, because "kaysedea" seems like a perfectly legitimate way to pronounce it.
I wouldn't be too hard on those people. I've yelled out “to go” a couple of times at the drive-through. Usually when I was thinking about stuff and temporarily forgot where I was.
Not just Texan - that's used all over the South! Seems to be most effective when said *very* sweetly by a woman. (Being a man, I can't pull it off right without getting weird looks.
Don't forget that other great phrase, "Well, isn't that nice!" It seems that the more sweetly you say it, the worse its meanning.
As a teacher, I hear lots of goofy stuff, but this is my favourite...
In the library, our librarian was teaching a class on citing works. How to cite a book, a magazine, a newspaper, a website etc... Students then had some time to work on the citations for their research papers.
A gr 10 student taps the librarian on the shoulder and shows her a book and asks "Is this a book or an on-line source?"
100% true!
In the library, our librarian was teaching a class on citing works. How to cite a book, a magazine, a newspaper, a website etc... Students then had some time to work on the citations for their research papers.
A gr 10 student taps the librarian on the shoulder and shows her a book and asks "Is this a book or an on-line source?"
100% true!
I agree with Kestra. Honestly, if you live in an area where something like this isn't common, or if you don't have any Taco Bells in the area like I do, you're simply not going to be familiar with it. If your environment is not accustomed to something, chances are, one is not going to be familiar with it. It's a bit like asking someone in the tropics if they're familiar with skiing.
Hell, I go to Taco Bell and am married to someone whose first language was Spanish--and I still can't pronounce things correctly in Spanish.
While taking Spanish for my major (English majors must take a college year of a foreign language), my dear Hubby requested that I not speak Spanish around him. He said it hurt his ears. This from a man who has problems pronouncing "Cahuenga"; he says it's because that's Native American and not Spanish. BTW I'm not a linguist, but it's something like "cah-wheng'-gah."
So I have few problems with someone not pronouncing Spanish correctly.
While taking Spanish for my major (English majors must take a college year of a foreign language), my dear Hubby requested that I not speak Spanish around him. He said it hurt his ears. This from a man who has problems pronouncing "Cahuenga"; he says it's because that's Native American and not Spanish. BTW I'm not a linguist, but it's something like "cah-wheng'-gah."
So I have few problems with someone not pronouncing Spanish correctly.
Quesadillas have been pretty common in restaurants all around the country for several years now, well over a decade and not just places like Taco Bell, Mexican Restaurants and Family Restaurants all usually feature a quesadillia on the appetizer menu.
It also seems to me, though this may do with my slight knowledge of Spanish, that "queso" being the Spanish word for "cheese" is pretty common several other dishes have this too (Chili con Queso being one.)
It's not absurd to think that most people should know that a Quesadillia has cheese in it by definition. I mean at the very least people should think to themselves "How would it hold together without cheese?"
It's the fairly common thing of people just not thinking before they speak or ask for things. I've joked with co-workers, who think I should do this, that some April Fool's Day I should just make signs for all of the items in out case that say "These", "This", "That", "Those" because all too many times when I ask people what I can get for them they just sort of point, even though my line of sight and their's are very different and the counter obscues my view of their hand, and say "give me two of those." Rather than just saying what they want, I mean everything is clearly signed and marked with very good discriptive signage. Or they'll name the cut they want but not the specific size of type. There's four things in our case that can be called a "sirloin" and people will just point -again in a way that's not visible to me- and say "give me two sirloins."
As if I'm just supposed to know what they want. Or "give me a pound of hamburger" even though we have four kinds of "hamburger" in the case.
People just don't think. They just want to hit the the feeder-bar and get their food pelets. Without having to think of silly things like, "If I tell this guy exactly what I want rather than just using an un-precise word, pointing, or not giving them the full name of the product which I can read right in front of me he'll be able to more easily be able to help me without playing a back-and-forth play of questions."
It's fine if people don't know exactly what they want and need help selecting something, getting the best cut, or the best lean-burger for their dish then, sure, ask questions. But too many times I have conversations that go:
"How may I help you today sir?"
"Yeah, give me two of those?"
"Yes, sir. Two of which, I can't see where you are pointing."
"Oh, sorry. Two sirloins."
"Ok, sir. Do you want the 8oz sirloin fillets, 5oz sirloin fillets, the sirloin steaks or the sirloin-strip steak.s"
"I want two of the 8oz ones."
"Yes sir, I get that ready for you right away!"
See, it's a back-and-forth battle of asking questions when it could've been made simpler:
"How may I help you today sir?"
"Yes, give me two of the 8oz sirloins."
"Yes sir, I'll get that for your right away!"
Oh, and if you want it specially wrapped like individually or whatever. Say something. I can't read your damn mind.
So, back to queso thing it's just a nother sample of people not thinking. Sure, there's going to be people out there who've -somehow- missed that "queso" means cheese and that all "quesadillias" have cheese in them. But from what I run into all of the time, every damn day, many people out there just simply are-not thinking. They stand there drooling, dumb-founded and with no clue what they are doing and, sure, I'll help them as much as you can. But sometimes I get the feeling that these people need me to go home and cook for them too. I hate to see how they buy things like a car or a house.
It also seems to me, though this may do with my slight knowledge of Spanish, that "queso" being the Spanish word for "cheese" is pretty common several other dishes have this too (Chili con Queso being one.)
It's not absurd to think that most people should know that a Quesadillia has cheese in it by definition. I mean at the very least people should think to themselves "How would it hold together without cheese?"
It's the fairly common thing of people just not thinking before they speak or ask for things. I've joked with co-workers, who think I should do this, that some April Fool's Day I should just make signs for all of the items in out case that say "These", "This", "That", "Those" because all too many times when I ask people what I can get for them they just sort of point, even though my line of sight and their's are very different and the counter obscues my view of their hand, and say "give me two of those." Rather than just saying what they want, I mean everything is clearly signed and marked with very good discriptive signage. Or they'll name the cut they want but not the specific size of type. There's four things in our case that can be called a "sirloin" and people will just point -again in a way that's not visible to me- and say "give me two sirloins."
As if I'm just supposed to know what they want. Or "give me a pound of hamburger" even though we have four kinds of "hamburger" in the case.
People just don't think. They just want to hit the the feeder-bar and get their food pelets. Without having to think of silly things like, "If I tell this guy exactly what I want rather than just using an un-precise word, pointing, or not giving them the full name of the product which I can read right in front of me he'll be able to more easily be able to help me without playing a back-and-forth play of questions."
It's fine if people don't know exactly what they want and need help selecting something, getting the best cut, or the best lean-burger for their dish then, sure, ask questions. But too many times I have conversations that go:
"How may I help you today sir?"
"Yeah, give me two of those?"
"Yes, sir. Two of which, I can't see where you are pointing."
"Oh, sorry. Two sirloins."
"Ok, sir. Do you want the 8oz sirloin fillets, 5oz sirloin fillets, the sirloin steaks or the sirloin-strip steak.s"
"I want two of the 8oz ones."
"Yes sir, I get that ready for you right away!"
See, it's a back-and-forth battle of asking questions when it could've been made simpler:
"How may I help you today sir?"
"Yes, give me two of the 8oz sirloins."
"Yes sir, I'll get that for your right away!"
Oh, and if you want it specially wrapped like individually or whatever. Say something. I can't read your damn mind.
So, back to queso thing it's just a nother sample of people not thinking. Sure, there's going to be people out there who've -somehow- missed that "queso" means cheese and that all "quesadillias" have cheese in them. But from what I run into all of the time, every damn day, many people out there just simply are-not thinking. They stand there drooling, dumb-founded and with no clue what they are doing and, sure, I'll help them as much as you can. But sometimes I get the feeling that these people need me to go home and cook for them too. I hate to see how they buy things like a car or a house.
Oh I'm sure they do too, but sometimes people just seem very lost and out of it. I had an 60-year old woman come to once and complain that the slamon she cooked the night before was terrible and she wanted a refund or a repalcement piece, as I was talking to her I asked her how she cooked it.
"I put in a 400-degree oven for an hour."
I gave her a new piece and gave her new reccomendations on how to cook it. But, seriously, how did she make to 60 and not know that cooking something so thin and light at such a high temperature for such a long time would end up as anything but a disaster. I'm willing to give leniency to younger people, but sometimes I'm just astonished when people who're older than me don't seem to have a clue on how to cook.
Maybe it's meant to be eye-dialect -- intentional misspelling to suggest lower-class speech or illiteracy, like “stummick” or “eleckshun.” Al Capp often used it in his Li'l Abner comic strip.
That's like Dana Carvey's Church Lady character saying, “Well now, isn't that special!” The more honeyed the tone of voice, the more the phrase drips with irony.
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