’)I never knew that getting a bagel could make me want to go on a rampage.
After a nice workout and on my way to work, I stopped at a Coffee Bean (not Starbucks this time). As I stepped out of the car the cool morning air greeted me, and I felt good about the day. I step into the store and the line is short, excellent! In no time, I get to the counter, and this exchange follows (after the greetings and pleasantries):
Barista: What would you like?
Me: A small latte, and a toasted cinnamon bagel please…just plain please.
Barista: No problem. Would you like cream cheese with the bagel?
Me (still not in rampage mode): No, just the bagel please.
Barista: How about butter?
Me (slightly miffed): Plain bagel is fine. Thanks!
Barista: So, no type of jams or anything?
Me (in my head): Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Shut up about the jams and cream cheese!
What the hell is wrong with some people?! How many times do I need to refuse creme cheese, butter, jams, or honey? You are not being helpful when you keep asking idiotic questions about possible spreads for my bagel. Oh yes, now that you’ve asked me fifty times I’ll just get a bagel with cream cheese. I wonder why I didn’t think of that myself. Weird!
You said ‘plain please’. How hard is that to understand? Really???
Ok SPAZ, plain could mean one without blueberries or any other flavor they come in. You are going to have a heart attack if you don’t get a grip. Take it down a notch. You have GOT to have more important things to stress out about.
You should have said “I love jam! I’ll take strawberry!” Then leave it on the counter after she hands everything to you.
they do the same thing to me! I was just complaining about this. Why the heck do they care? well besides that fact that they can’t charge for it. Maybe they have meetings that teach everyone how to peddle cream cheese.
The things that I hate, especially when I go to Starbucks is this:
Me: I’d like a large soy chai latte, please.
Barista: We don’t have large, we only have Venti.
Me: Whatever you call it, a soy chai latte please.
Barista: Do you want that short, tall, grande, or Venti?
Me: The largest one.
Barista: Venti?
Me: Yes!!!!
Then, inevitably, I get a LARGE latte with espresso; then a LARGE whole milk chai latte; then a LARGE skim milk chai latte; then finally, a LARGE soy chai latte.
Starbucks should change their name to Star-f**ks-up.
I had the same problem once.
I asked to speak to the manager, and told him that hiring hearing-impaired employees is commendable. The manager said that the employee wasn’t hearing impaired, so I suggested that he stop hiring stupid people because when I say PLAIN bagel, I don’t want anything on it.
The manager said that it was company policy to offer toppings when the customer asks for a plain bagel, so i said that until they change the policy i wouldn’t be back. I left the bagel and coffee on the counter unpaid for.
You got them GOOD! I bet they fired one of their marketing geniuses over your melodramatic outburst!
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Here we go again with the whining. What kind of wussie says things in their head instead of to the person causing so much grief? If you say it in your head it’s not sarcasm. This site blows. It should be renamed The Whiniest.
its called self control. you dont have the right to just flip out on anyone and everyone that pisses you off.
Ashley Ashley Ashley. Nobody said anything about flipping out. The best sarcasm is said with a straight face and calm demeaner. The Constitution of the U.S. gives me the right to “flip out” or be sarcastic but this is not a matter of one’s personal rights. It’s about expressing one’s opinions and thoughts to another just as you have done here. The only difference is the so-called writer of this website said nothing and what went on in his/her head wasn’t even sarcasm. You clearly belong as a member here.
Agreed. You don’t have to actually yell “ahhhhhhhhh! ENOUGH ALREADY!” But the author could have said, “Hey, that’s an excellent idea. And make that plain jam.”
If the site bothers you so much, why do you continue to come to it? It would make more sense to avoid reading stuff you don’t like, wouldn’t it?
I just joined a few days ago. I guess I keep coming back in the hopes that something intelligent will be written. So far I’ve seen nothing but general and extremely common complaints. Boring. Honestly, The Onion is more sarcastic than this self proclaimed sarcasm website.
Bob, you have a small penis. And therefore, you are inferior. For I, Amar, have a large one. So I (being the alpha [standing for AWESOME] male) command you to go hit yourself with office supplies such as a stapler or hole-punch.
I remember the last day I got asked to trade in games at Gamestop.
*Checking Out*
Employee: Would you like to trade in any of your old games today?
Me: No, I would most certainly not.
Employee: But c’mon Dude! Like, how many times are you really gonna play (a game that I bought from this still-same degenerate, reeking then, as know, of pot and lack of shower facilities two months previous.)
Me: I’ll tell you what, I still have the receipt. If I bring it in and you give me full price back, I’ll think about it. But because I KNOW you’ll only give me $5 back on the $60 game, then sell it as a classic the next day for $35 dollars, SCREW YOUR POINTLESS TRADE IN!
The last was said at MAX VOLUME, in a crowded store, in full view of a manager. I haven’t been pressured to get screwed since.
The guy obviously wanted extra money from the transaction…or he was trained to suggestive sell to death.
When they do that twice in a row I just tell them “dude, my money ain’t gonna help you futher your work choice, so just give me what I want-I turned you down once-so stop-NOW”.
The idiot should have asked the fourth question second at least-or first for that matter-this drives people nuts-he basically asked the same thing all over again in one question…
Totally not required.
I can certainly identify. I waited tables off-and-on for several years while I was completing school, and “suggestive selling” is an important part of that job. Of course suggestive sales can really improve a guest-check average (and ostensibly, since tips are usually percentage-based, the server’s own income) and they also provide useful assistance to customers trying to put together a nice meal for themselves to enjoy, But I agree. There’s something to be said about going too far. And bagel places are the worst.
I have a similar exchange to what you describe every time I get a new clerk at a Panera, after I ask for “an Asiago Bagel, just as it is.” No, I don’t want it sliced. No I do not want to pay more for a shmear of cream cheese than the charge for the specialty bagel itself, no I don’t want to toast freshly-baked bread, and no I do not want butter or jam to disguise the taste. The clerk NEVER suggests a bottle of water with my coffee, though. Which I probably WOULD like, but usually have to ASK for. And I really don’t give a rat’s ass whether you put the disposables on a tray or in a bag, even though I’m not gonna use the knife, since I’m not gonna have any cream cheese or butter.
This site is perhaps the least funny site on the internet that claims legitimacy. The only slightly entertaining post of late was the Frugal Halloween tricksters. The rest are not but petty complaining or endless jokes about Starbucks that no one finds funny anymore.
Speaking for the masses again, are we, Keith? about as proactive as Obama.. maybe you need a Nobel too.