I just heard a story about a girl working the customer service desk of a Target who had a shampoo bottle thrown at her head. She informed security and the angry customer was escorted out if the store... end of story.
Oh hell to the nah! Look I understand we all get fed up with the crapulent customer service that seems to be everywhere these days and many of us will not hesitate to let our dissatisfaction be known in some loud or abrasive manner but when you take it to that next level... Just keep in mind that the only thing separating that person from you is a counter and a minimum wage job with no benefits that they probably hate anyway.
Another story about two drunk women who decided to go all "Falling Down" on a fast food employee when their order was wrong is a perfect example of what I am talking about here. After screaming and yelling at the guy one decided to slap him then they both came across the counter after him as he backed away. Unbeknownst to these ladies this guy was a convicted felon and at this point he had some kind of jail house flash back, grabbed a metal pipe and started hammering the unhappy customers until someone could pull him off and subdue him. I'm not saying this was a good thing for him to do. What I am saying is that it was very short sighted of these women to take their problem to the next level.
As consumers we have a right to expect good service, even from the low man on the totem pole, and should demand a correction be made when there is a mistake. Just keep in mind that these are people too or your next value meal may come with a free side of ass whooping.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Blogging
I dig this blogging thing but there are a few draw backs.
1 I feel compelled to write a lot qualifying it as a blog and not a Facebook or Twitter post.
2 I do most of my online stuff from my IPhone and typing on the IPhone sucks.
3 The blogger app sucks too.
It may seem obvious that I need to just do most of my stuff on the computer but work tends to frown on using their time and equipment for that kind of stuff and getting on my computer at home seems to cause my kids to realize they need all my attention right now.
So I am going to start posting more but maybe not as long. I'll just have to deal with the typing on a shitty app.
1 I feel compelled to write a lot qualifying it as a blog and not a Facebook or Twitter post.
2 I do most of my online stuff from my IPhone and typing on the IPhone sucks.
3 The blogger app sucks too.
It may seem obvious that I need to just do most of my stuff on the computer but work tends to frown on using their time and equipment for that kind of stuff and getting on my computer at home seems to cause my kids to realize they need all my attention right now.
So I am going to start posting more but maybe not as long. I'll just have to deal with the typing on a shitty app.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The fountain of youth... in my pants?
I'm driving home yesterday and listening to sports talk radio when a commercial came on that really confused me. It started off asking if I was tired of the effects of aging. This peaked my interest because, while getting older sucks, I have always thought it was better than the alternative. That is primarily because I was under the impression that there was only one alternative and I doubted this was a commercial for dieing.
"Are you tired of the effects of aging? Then die!"
This add brought to you by the counsel for less people
So I kept listening and it went on to ask if I felt like life had lost its fun and if I could do something about would I. Then it said the center for anti-aging (or something like that... I dont recall the actual name) could help.
A center to stop aging? Wow! Had they found the fountain of youth? Was there some new gene therapy that could keep us young forever?
It went on talking about how crappy life could be as you get old then it slipped in, very quickly and only once, that "not all ED was the same".
Really? An erectile dysfunction commercial? That is what an "anti-aging" clinic can do for me? Since when did having a boner become the same as staying young? And why is a limp willy a sign of aging to such an extent that providing a stiff one qualifies as age defying? This is bullshit. I am really tired of how saturated with ED adds and treatments we have become and how it is seen as a normal part of getting older. I mean do they think that people who spent their lives looking for the fountain of youth would have come across a pile of Viagra and been like "Eureka! A hard on!" Sorry but they are just not that rare. If I believed every commercial I saw during any show whose primary demographic was men or the thousands of adds in my spam filter I would think that any man over 20 was walking around depressed and lifeless because their little soldier wouldnt stand at attention any more. Thats just not the case.
And thats another thing... the ridiculous commercials they have for these things. Packs of men on weekend get aways sitting around discussing how their junk doesnt work or commiserating about it during a jam session with the guys. When I think of girls staying together I think pillow fights in their underwear now when I think of guys away together I think of these ridiculous Viagra commercials. Look I have been on some weekend trips with the guys and I can tell you we dont discuss our dicks not working. If it ever does come up (no pun intended) it is about how well it worked and how hot she was. I mean, unless it was a weekend get away Broke Back Mountain style I cant imagine why the working status of a stiffy would even be a topic of discussion. Most guys would just keep that shit to themselves. The last thing you want is more fodder for the other guys.
Then there is the Cialis commercial. If there was a sudden stopage in the pipe and I had a pill that gave me a 48 hour window to use it again the last thing I would do is drag two cast iron bathtubs out to a lake and then sit in them with my wife, seperately, and stare at the sun set.
Here is the point, ED is not a normal part of aging. There are a lot of things that deteriorate with age... eyes, short term memory, hearing, tolerance for good music, driving capability, short term memory... but the monster rod is not one of them. Sure it can get worse but that is due to problems with blood pressure or circulation or injury not just the fact that you are older. Disgusting as it may be, there are lots of old guys out there that can achieve normal healthy erections till the day they die. Ever hear of Hugh Hefner? That dude is 1014 years old and still in full working order. So lets not fall into the trap of equating getting older with a decrease in sexual function and leave the anti-aging claims to snake oil salesmen and crystal skin vampires.
"Are you tired of the effects of aging? Then die!"
This add brought to you by the counsel for less people
So I kept listening and it went on to ask if I felt like life had lost its fun and if I could do something about would I. Then it said the center for anti-aging (or something like that... I dont recall the actual name) could help.
A center to stop aging? Wow! Had they found the fountain of youth? Was there some new gene therapy that could keep us young forever?
It went on talking about how crappy life could be as you get old then it slipped in, very quickly and only once, that "not all ED was the same".
Really? An erectile dysfunction commercial? That is what an "anti-aging" clinic can do for me? Since when did having a boner become the same as staying young? And why is a limp willy a sign of aging to such an extent that providing a stiff one qualifies as age defying? This is bullshit. I am really tired of how saturated with ED adds and treatments we have become and how it is seen as a normal part of getting older. I mean do they think that people who spent their lives looking for the fountain of youth would have come across a pile of Viagra and been like "Eureka! A hard on!" Sorry but they are just not that rare. If I believed every commercial I saw during any show whose primary demographic was men or the thousands of adds in my spam filter I would think that any man over 20 was walking around depressed and lifeless because their little soldier wouldnt stand at attention any more. Thats just not the case.
And thats another thing... the ridiculous commercials they have for these things. Packs of men on weekend get aways sitting around discussing how their junk doesnt work or commiserating about it during a jam session with the guys. When I think of girls staying together I think pillow fights in their underwear now when I think of guys away together I think of these ridiculous Viagra commercials. Look I have been on some weekend trips with the guys and I can tell you we dont discuss our dicks not working. If it ever does come up (no pun intended) it is about how well it worked and how hot she was. I mean, unless it was a weekend get away Broke Back Mountain style I cant imagine why the working status of a stiffy would even be a topic of discussion. Most guys would just keep that shit to themselves. The last thing you want is more fodder for the other guys.
Then there is the Cialis commercial. If there was a sudden stopage in the pipe and I had a pill that gave me a 48 hour window to use it again the last thing I would do is drag two cast iron bathtubs out to a lake and then sit in them with my wife, seperately, and stare at the sun set.
Here is the point, ED is not a normal part of aging. There are a lot of things that deteriorate with age... eyes, short term memory, hearing, tolerance for good music, driving capability, short term memory... but the monster rod is not one of them. Sure it can get worse but that is due to problems with blood pressure or circulation or injury not just the fact that you are older. Disgusting as it may be, there are lots of old guys out there that can achieve normal healthy erections till the day they die. Ever hear of Hugh Hefner? That dude is 1014 years old and still in full working order. So lets not fall into the trap of equating getting older with a decrease in sexual function and leave the anti-aging claims to snake oil salesmen and crystal skin vampires.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Occupy Walmart
Now I'm not talking about the self proclaimed 99% that makes up the occupy movement. No I am talking about a group that, if asked why they were camping out in front of corporate and retail giants, could rise up with a single voice and answer. And the answer would be sales! All the otherwise rational people lining sidewalks outside Walmarts, Targets, and malls all over the country awaiting the opening of the Black Friday sales.
Here in Dallas there is a woman already camped by the front door of her local target so she is in the pole position when the green flag goes off a midnight. She says being a stay at home mom allows her the freedom to devote so much time, which includes missing Thanksgiving with her family, to be the first one to have access to the deals that will be available.
Of course most of these occupiers won't go to this extreme but they will start lining up on Thanksgiving day while the pie is still being served and the games are still on TV. As I am just coming out of my turkey coma and eyeing the kitchen for what else I can fit into my miserable body they will be holding the line, fueled by pumpkin lattes and armed with stacks of advertisements. Gradually they will crowd closer and closer to the door of their hunting ground until they are crammed up against it like the front rows of a concert. The workers inside will mill around watching the growing sea of stupidity at their doors until one brave worker goes over and opens the flood gate at midnight. At this point all bets are off... all humanity is out the window... forget Thanksgiving or Christmas or civility. At this point these people will be about as base as people get. People will be trampled. People will be injured. People will get in fights. All of this will be for the chance to purchase merchandise that has been available all year and will be available again before Christmas and at prices that have proven to be higher than they will be in the 14 days before Christmas.
I have never gone. 30 minutes in a Walmart and I am ready to commit homicide so I cant imagine what standing on line for hours then rushing in with those people would do to me... or them. I would speculate I will never go. For those that are going to brave it and make the trip out on Black Friday despite the fact that the hours are ridiculous, the prices are no better than will be available on cyber-Monday or later, and the people will be this years cast of People of Walmart I assume you are going for the thrill of the hunt. If this is you then happy hunting and and Happy Thanksgiving.
Here in Dallas there is a woman already camped by the front door of her local target so she is in the pole position when the green flag goes off a midnight. She says being a stay at home mom allows her the freedom to devote so much time, which includes missing Thanksgiving with her family, to be the first one to have access to the deals that will be available.
Of course most of these occupiers won't go to this extreme but they will start lining up on Thanksgiving day while the pie is still being served and the games are still on TV. As I am just coming out of my turkey coma and eyeing the kitchen for what else I can fit into my miserable body they will be holding the line, fueled by pumpkin lattes and armed with stacks of advertisements. Gradually they will crowd closer and closer to the door of their hunting ground until they are crammed up against it like the front rows of a concert. The workers inside will mill around watching the growing sea of stupidity at their doors until one brave worker goes over and opens the flood gate at midnight. At this point all bets are off... all humanity is out the window... forget Thanksgiving or Christmas or civility. At this point these people will be about as base as people get. People will be trampled. People will be injured. People will get in fights. All of this will be for the chance to purchase merchandise that has been available all year and will be available again before Christmas and at prices that have proven to be higher than they will be in the 14 days before Christmas.
I have never gone. 30 minutes in a Walmart and I am ready to commit homicide so I cant imagine what standing on line for hours then rushing in with those people would do to me... or them. I would speculate I will never go. For those that are going to brave it and make the trip out on Black Friday despite the fact that the hours are ridiculous, the prices are no better than will be available on cyber-Monday or later, and the people will be this years cast of People of Walmart I assume you are going for the thrill of the hunt. If this is you then happy hunting and and Happy Thanksgiving.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Why Blog?
I have decided to start a blog. Now if you are one of the very few people that were involved with my blogs in the past you wont be impressed by this fact. If you are not one of those people you will be not impressed very soon.
I have done some blogs before but it was really more of a way for me to keep up with friends' blogs than to really do anything of my own. So this is going to be an attempt to blog for me, to get the random crap in my head out. My wife seems to think some people may enjoy reading my ramblings so I might as well put them in a blog. Now a lot of people that blog are trying to put out information about topics that are important to them or share things they are going through with people that are looking to commiserate. I am not. In fact it occurs to me that this may just be an attempt by my wife to get me to stop talking to her. She doesnt seem to realize that I am witty, charming, and funny at all times. Anyway, this will be about nothing in particular. What you can expect is me to talk about being a father, being a husband, travel, sports, news, politics, religion, social issues, scotch, food, video games, movies and anything else I want to talk about.
The other recurring theme of my blogging is that it has been sporadic and short lived. This time however.... it may be the same. I would really rather do a vlog to be honest but my wife assures me that with my looks and personality I was made for blogging. If it turns out that vlogging is easy enough however I may add that as well. I guess we will see what this turns in to...
Oh one last thing. I need to warn you up front that there is a good chance I will say something you dont like. I have been accused in the past of having a notable lack of brain filter and I suspect it is true. So if you have a weak stomach or get your feelings hurt easily, are offended by anything or have one of those moral compass things you will find some of my subject matter hard to handle. I wont apologize but I have put this disclaimer in so I retain the right to say I told you so.
I have done some blogs before but it was really more of a way for me to keep up with friends' blogs than to really do anything of my own. So this is going to be an attempt to blog for me, to get the random crap in my head out. My wife seems to think some people may enjoy reading my ramblings so I might as well put them in a blog. Now a lot of people that blog are trying to put out information about topics that are important to them or share things they are going through with people that are looking to commiserate. I am not. In fact it occurs to me that this may just be an attempt by my wife to get me to stop talking to her. She doesnt seem to realize that I am witty, charming, and funny at all times. Anyway, this will be about nothing in particular. What you can expect is me to talk about being a father, being a husband, travel, sports, news, politics, religion, social issues, scotch, food, video games, movies and anything else I want to talk about.
The other recurring theme of my blogging is that it has been sporadic and short lived. This time however.... it may be the same. I would really rather do a vlog to be honest but my wife assures me that with my looks and personality I was made for blogging. If it turns out that vlogging is easy enough however I may add that as well. I guess we will see what this turns in to...
Oh one last thing. I need to warn you up front that there is a good chance I will say something you dont like. I have been accused in the past of having a notable lack of brain filter and I suspect it is true. So if you have a weak stomach or get your feelings hurt easily, are offended by anything or have one of those moral compass things you will find some of my subject matter hard to handle. I wont apologize but I have put this disclaimer in so I retain the right to say I told you so.
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