Truthfully, I actually prefer the kiosk. I can adjust each item myself, and I'm not rushed by a line behind me. (There's virtually never anyone waiting after me. Each store has at least 4 kiosks, and I've never seen them full at any given time.)
Things that frustrate us all
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In the future things like McD's will be fully automated an you just rock up punch in your order and a machine will make it for you on the spot and pass the item to you.
Wildfire smoke.
That looks so scary but is probably worse in real life. They showed the fires in Canada and the sky looked like Mars, and where in the USA are you Peach? Has the smoke drifted very far?
I'm in Kirkland, Washington. That's the city where COVID was first identified. Our air quality is currently "unhealthy for everyone," and my asthma is acting up. With the inhalers I have, I can keep my voice and breathe okay. If I have a strong attack, I could land in the ER. I'm hoping to avoid that.
I actually fell out of the cab when I got to Newark airport.
Not that the driver noticed.
The point is that it’s not housekeeping’s job to set the A/C. It’s MINE. As the guest, I’ll set it to whatever I damn well please.
Plus the A/C also makes noise, which helps me sleep.
Not that the driver noticed.
Not as such, no. But it’s been hot this week in NYC and if that A/C isn’t running pretty much all the time, it WILL get broiling.
The point is that it’s not housekeeping’s job to set the A/C. It’s MINE. As the guest, I’ll set it to whatever I damn well please.
Plus the A/C also makes noise, which helps me sleep.
How is it we can send people into space and have computers generate art that looks like a human painted it, but we can’t seem to do invent restroom faucet motion sensors that consistently work?
Ain't that the truth.
On a related note, sensors on the paper towel dispensers. For some reason, not a single place seems to accept my left hand when I go for paper towels. Right hand, sure.
Between that and virtually all touchscreens almost never accepting my touch from the left hand, I'm starting to wonder if my left arm is a ghost.
Airport bathrooms are hell. Some even have dryers next to the faucets. I once splashed water on myself thinking it was a soap dispenser.
Never been to an airport bathroom, but there are others all over the place that are designed like that.
Another thing that is more an annoyance than a frustration... when a bathroom doesn't have paper towel dispensers at all, just the dryer. There have been many times when I just need to blow my nose, and there is nothing I can use in sight. (Stalls would be full so I couldn't use toilet paper.) So many now just have dryers.
I get trying to conserve paper towels, but at least have the option available for those who simply need to rid the nose of unfriendly goo.
I don't disagree. I was confused by the assertion as I find 67 the perfect temp.
Humans are famously cheap too
I'm just up the street in Bothell/Mill Creek and my nose was stuffed up and I had a bit of a scratchy throat.
For the most part, we dodged a bullet this summer. The last two were miserable.
Yeah! Last fall was super bad. We had the worst AQI on the planet! Right now, I’m still talking and not coughing, but my sides are not happy.
In Eastern Washington and surrounded by smoke. I'm over it, and I'm pissed off as hell because the vast majority of these fires are from neglect or human caused. It's absolutely mind boggling to me the stupidity of people. A guy in a nearby down started a fire in a neighborhood because he was using a propane torch to kill some weeds and his whole damn planet bed went up in smoke. There's a fire east of here that will keep burning because the terrain is too steep to get equipment up there and smoke too thick for air support.
Just so done with this garbage.
Just so done with this garbage.
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What I can’t wrap my head around is why people continue to support policies that make this worse. And it’s the lower income folk that will ultimately suffer the most because of their inability to move. It’s super frustrating.
They're operating on orders from management. Why freeze a room that nobody is in? Look at your electric bill in the summertime. Now multiply that by the number of rooms in the hotel.I actually fell out of the cab when I got to Newark airport.
Not that the driver noticed.
Not as such, no. But it’s been hot this week in NYC and if that A/C isn’t running pretty much all the time, it WILL get broiling.
The point is that it’s not housekeeping’s job to set the A/C. It’s MINE. As the guest, I’ll set it to whatever I damn well please.
Plus the A/C also makes noise, which helps me sleep.
What I can't wrap my mind around is people using their fucking ATVs off roading and causing some of these issues.
Never mind the poor forest management, not trimming back areas, or doing controlled burns to thin out undergrowth.
And the morons that smoke in their cars and throw the cigs out the window. It’s not looking like I moved to Krypton today, though my sides are still frickin’ angry.
ETA: Just took a dose of albuterol and my throat is relaxing. I’m still amazed how I misread this for so long.
ETA: Just took a dose of albuterol and my throat is relaxing. I’m still amazed how I misread this for so long.