catmcclure

A chain of restaurants serves hot dogs and hamburgers. The menu lists a Deluxe Hamburger and a Deluxe Cheeseburger. I always order a Deluxe Hamburger. Invariably they ask me if I want cheese on my hamburger. I realize they're just going by the rote responses given by management. I sometimes respond politely and say "No." Other times, I ask them if I look senile, and what part of "hamburger" do they not understand?

SUZAG

Did anybody watch Undercover Boss last night? The CEO of Checkers/Rally was coming into the stores as a new hire regular employee. It really gave me an appreciation for what the fast food worker is going through...I did it as a teenager but of course, technology hadn't arrived yet to mess it up and everybody walked up to the counter and gave their order in person...lol I really think people were nicer back then also, or maybe I was too naive to notice...Remember those days?

SUZAG

You don't say which part of the country you are from but for my ex-mother-in-law, from Kentucky, milk gravy was the only gravy there was, and boy was it good!

caspharm

Too much has been dumbed down. For example, the registers are set so most people don't even know how to make change without the register telling them. I know this is supposed to cut down errors, but please, is it that hard? People don't know how or don't want to think outside the box, truly.

ragqueen03

ok as a bank teller i do have to comment on this - i don't mean it to sound mean or nasty. But the bank i work at the upper management EXPECTS us to repeat what the customer is doing. they actually listen to make sure we are repeating it back to them. so it is not that we don't listen - it is part of our job.

Grace creates

well it's usually kids working anyway and they are working

sewgarden

I always ask for black tea. I always get a little jug of milk with it so I tell them to take it back. One day I ordered myself black tea and my husband a white coffee so he got black coffee and I got white tea. I'm quite sure these people just don't listen.

seamstome

My favorite was when we went out to a nice restaurant. For dessert, the one guy ordered pie ala mode and could you warm that up for me--just stick in the microwave a little bit is fine. Waitress came back and asked did he want it microwaved before or after she put the ice cream on?????

Or the time my friend got a coke at a Mexican place and it just didnt taste right and when the waitress came around, she asked for a tea instead. We told the waitress why she wanted a different drink, thinking she would check the carbonation unit. She looked at the drink, like that would do any good. Then sipped it and said it tastes alright to me, sure you dont want to just keep it??? My girlfriend said NO. Then she offered it to the rest of the table. Yes we were charged for the coke and the tea.....NO we didnt tip.

Peckish

We microwave ice cream all the time in my family, just enough to make it soft.

I would have complained to the management about the coke and service, though.

jeaninmaine

I'm from the Northeast, I make chicken gravy all the time, or beef gravy with a roast, turkey gravy with turkey or sausage gravy with biscuits. I've never made just brown or white gravy.