Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[Reeleyes]

Do credit card companies have a per-transaction fee?  I worked at a place that had a "$5 minimum," but the owner was not able to give a coherent reason why. (Note: 5% of $2.50 plus 5% of $2.50 is the same as 5% of $5.)

I assume they're just trying to make extra sales.

I think some places have to pay something like a dollar per credit card transaction.  So they impose a minimum CC payment themselves.  

I went to buy an item at a convenience store that was something like $4.65.  I went to pay with my card and he tells me "We can't take credit cards if it's under $5."  Then he says "Well, we CAN. But we don't want to."  

You don't want to?  I wanted to walk out of the store without paying so he'd say "Sir, you have to pay for that!" Then I'd say "Well, I can. But I don't want to."  

I recently went to a local convenience store that I had never been to. I was getting drinks for my family and a big bag of chips for a two hour drive we were embarking on. I had about $7 worth of stuff and when I handed the lady my card she said simply "No cards". When I pointed out that the guy in front of me had just used a card she said it louder "NO CARDS!". I was really confused and I pointed to the credit card machine and asked "What's that for?" and she replied "NOT FOR YOU!". To this day I have no idea what that was all about but I hated the experience and I'm now even more insecure than I was before I went into that store.

[buffcoat]

I happened to find a Teas Tea Goji while I was out of town.  I've never had this flavor before (the local stores don't carry it), and I kept thinking I ought to just open it up and try it.  Then I thought, I'll try it when I get home.  I shoved it down in my bag and forgot about it.

Lo and behold, the security guy flagged my bag and the woman working the line confiscated my 16.9 oz tea.  It's a stupid fucking rule, but them's the rules.

I said, "I just want to try it, then I'll throw it away."  Nope, I would have had to go back outside and then come back through security, which in retrospect I should have done, but I didn't.



Moral of this story: Now the terrorists really have won.

[Stupornaut]

The Yankees.

[Barry Egan]

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/122693-report-giuliani-didnt-like-yankees-seats?cnn=yes

I'm not saying I hate Giuliani, I'm just pointing out that he's a gigantic asshole. 

"I WANNA TALK TO POSADA!  WAAAH!"

[Sarah]

I was getting drinks for my family and a big bag of chips. . . . I had about $7 worth of stuff.

That sounds like an amazing deal.  I mean, a big bag of chips alone must cost $4.

On another note:  what I hate today is today, for no good reason.

[fonpr]

I was getting drinks for my family and a big bag of chips. . . . I had about $7 worth of stuff.

That sounds like an amazing deal.  I mean, a big bag of chips alone must cost $4.

On another note:  what I hate today is today, for no good reason.

Tighten up dere, Girl

[Steve of Bloomington]

I'm easing off on this, don't want to come across as a whiny 30 something, or Jay Leno.

BTW I watched his monologue the other night. That Kevin guy does the 'sad guitar' thing every other joke. They couldn't get a trumpet player?

[Sarah]

I was getting drinks for my family and a big bag of chips. . . . I had about $7 worth of stuff.

That sounds like an amazing deal.  I mean, a big bag of chips alone must cost $4.

On another note:  what I hate today is today, for no good reason.

Tighten up dere, Girl

Another use of "tight" (well, a form thereof) with which I'm not familiar!  I'm going to take it to mean something helpful unless someone tells me otherwise.

[cutout]

Saw Tom's tweet today and I wholeheartedly agree about Nikki Finke. She's the worst part about Hollywood where she embodies entertainment as purely a business. Whenever I've read stuff linked to her site, it makes me think she probably hasn't see a movie in like 12 years or watched a show in ages.

Surreal - I had never heard of Nikki Finke until Tom's tweet. I googled her and then read a long New Yorker article about her. Then randomly today she's reporting about an ex-girlfriend of mine (not a brag!) who just parted ways with the Mad Men team, though the article skews it like there was some bloodletting at the show which is not entirely what happened -

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/recent-emmy-winning-young-female-writer-loses-her-job-on-mad-men/

[erika]

If someone invites you to their wedding, mail back the god damned RSVP. Or, go fuck yourself.

[Andy]

If someone invites you to their wedding, mail back the god damned RSVP. Or, go fuck yourself.

I'll go fuck myself, thanks.

But I guess I don't get a choice since apparently I didn't make the invite list.  Oh well, there's always next time.

(I love trying to make people feel bad for things that they have no reason at all to feel bad about, but that's for discussion in another thread.)

[Andy]

Also, I agree with Erika's post.  It's not asking too much. Just let them know.

My big complaint lately is that the people who volunteer for everything follow through on none of it.  I hate that.  Don't volunteer. Or do  what you volunteer to do.

[erika]

You were on the B list, Andy. Patience, patience...

Now poor Sparkles is going to have to go stag...

[dave from knoxville]

If someone invites you to their wedding, mail back the god damned RSVP. Or, go fuck yourself.

I'll go fuck myself, thanks.

But I guess I don't get a choice since apparently I didn't make the invite list.  Oh well, there's always next time.

(I love trying to make people feel bad for things that they have no reason at all to feel bad about, but that's for discussion in another thread.)

Power callers didn't make the cut, either, Andy.

[Andy]

Here's one I'm torn on: fuck you security guards "just doing my job"

I'm staying in nice hotel with my dad and I have a final due tomorrow in a class. So I go downstairs to an empty conference room and spread out my stuff. I'm quietly working and in comes a security guard. "you can't be here". So I ask if they have a business center, and JE points me in the diection. It's a computer in the lobby of this hotel full of drunk football idiots and there is a karaoke bar across the hall. There is no way I'm writing my supply chain Mgmt paper there. So I go to the room until my dad decides to go to bed and I go back down. I find another small room with a table and work quietly until the security guy came back in. "sir, I thought we were clear that you couldn't be back in these area" I explained my predicament to him, biut he didn't care. By this time it's 12:30 and I just go out to my car to finish typing my paper.

On one hand I want to cut the guy some slack. He's just a big idiot doing what he's told and probably afraid to get in trouble.

In the other hand (this is about to sound really Shitty) I'm a 30 year old, clean cut guy dressed professionally, carrying a briefcase and working quietly in an upscale hotel in an extremely white bread suburb of Dallas. There's a part of me that just wants to say "can't you just be a human being for once in your life and realize that I'm not a threat and look the other way?"

whatever. Fuck that guy.