Yillara Skye

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    Just ate a handful of cheese puffs, which for the record I shouldnt really be eating. And passed them off to my dad who has been good for the past few days with what he can & cant eat(high bp, diabetes & stroke victim). Bad I know....worse was the fact that he tried to feed them to the cockatiel. Which I stopped him before the bird ate any.

  13. Posted · Edited by Yillara Skye

    Katrina was a Gulf coast storm - which is where most of hurricanes this time of year head - Atlantic coast storms are usually later in the season. Just so it keeps on going out to sea.

    Yes, it did hit the gulf though it started in the Atlantic. The storm I'm thinking of, I believe went across Florida and hit the gulf coast then came back across land and back out into the Atlantic and did a loop and hit the coast again. I just don't remember which storm it was.

     

     

    I dont remember which one played ping pong in the gulf after hitting FL from the east. But I do remember Jeanne spinning 360 not too far from the Bahamas in 2004. I remember my family coming back from a music gig in Dothan, AL and drove right into that sucker. I have a dry-erase tracking chart that has the chart on one side and the most severe storms of 1992,1999, 2004 & 2005 to hit/affect FL. Tropical storm Kyle in I think 2002 pulled a similar stunt with spinning 360. With that one I just wrote it down as Drunk instead of Kyle because not only did it turn completely around it kind of bobbed and weaved across the Atlantic.

     

    Also Hurricane Ivan came up & hit from the west near AL affecting LA through FL. It broke in half and the New England area got Rainstorm Ivan whereas the coast of TX got Tropical Storm Ivan simultaneously

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    Interesting... I wonder if they will start using these in other hospitals soon. :laugh::look: Can patients have them too? Maybe nurses will answer those more often than the old call button that links the patient's room with the nurse station. :bow: Sorry, just a gripe I had with the recent times in the hospital. Plus, I am sure my dad would share the same gripe after his long stay in the hospital.

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    Maybe my eyesight was messed up because of the tears.. I was laughing soo hard from checking out a link in another thread. But, I totally misread this thread title! LOL.

     

    My initial response was going to be "I think after being in Starfleet for so many years, I think Data knows how to use the transporter all by himself!"

     

    And yeah, I did end up reading the link... it was a short, yet interesting read.

  22. Posted · Edited by Yillara_Skye

    If the holodeck were real... hmmm, well I would hang out with my favorite character (Data of course). Get to at least "visit" places that I really want to go and see... Ireland for one, and Norway.

  23. Posted

    I have seen the dvd with Denise crosby about the fans of Star Trek, TREKKIES.

    it is a very funny dvd, with a lot of interviews with the cast of TOS and TNG (Kirk, Spock, Mc Coy, Data, Riker,...), but the best scene for me was when Denise showed to the camera her collection of gifts from her fans, in which there was also a series of white-and-black drawings about the episode in which Data made sex with her- they are both naked! It has been always my secret dream since I am a fan of Brent!

    :laugh:

    Okkkkk,I must have missed that part. I gotta watch Trekkies again! I'm a big fan of Data, and can honestly say I had a bit of a crush on him (not to mention Brent Spiner). And I managed to miss that scene.

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    I'm on the side of the manager. I've worked in fast food service, and lemme tell you, customers will rob you blind if you let them. People who want four packets of sauce for a small order of chicken nuggets are ridiculous. No, you CAN'T have free sauce for your fries! You can have ketchup and salt, but not ranch. You want it? You pay a surcharge for it. That crap's relatively expensive, and each store is responsible for their own inventory. Corporate centers will NOT dig into deep pockets to help out a store that's struggling. The article doesn't even say if the manager gave the chance for this customer to actually buy a few more packets, but I imagine that would be standard procedure. No reason to be that pigheadedly selfish.

     

    Ten-to-one says this (Ignore me, I'm using profanity) also tried to order a "large water, with no ice."

     

     

    I am WHOLEHEARTEDLY on the side of the manager! And COMPLETELY agree with you on what you just said here! NO you can't have sauce by the handful, and like UH said it IS because those boxes are expensive. Yes, I have worked drive thru in fast food so believe me I know this stuff. I have had people get out of their cars and lean into my window to get in my face because I had to charge them for a medium water. It is just 25 cents people, chill the heck out! Do THEY want to pay the price for a case of medium cups? Noooooooooo, they want everything handed to them on a pretty silver platter. I don't know how much you guys are charging for the sauce packets, but we sold them for 27 cents.

     

    Heck, the owner of our store got onto me about putting ketchup, salt and pepper into bags before handing them out. I would put a couple packets of each into a customer's bag before they reached the window(when I was working that position as a break from my order taker/cashier position). Do you all know that a standard small fast food joint loses about $1200 a month just on ketchup, salt and pepper alone if they are putting it in EVERY bag regardless of whether or not a customer asks for it? It is true, I put that stuff in the bag because after all that would be what majority would ask for... and I got a lecture because I was doing that. Sooooooo, you guys want Ketchup, Salt or pepper in your bag???? Ask for it, because it is NOT going to be there unless you do. Same with sauces, at lunch (or breakfast where applicable) we ask you if you want sauces with your CHICKEN ITEMS. Yes, I emphasize CHICKEN like youbroughtheryouRiker. When I could eat fried foods, I would have a small half full bag of fries (AKA a 1/2 order of fries) that I would get for myself. You could not request the bag filled half way, but since I was behind the counter I could do that for myself. I would get one thing of sweet & sour sauce. I, an EMPLOYEE, could show you my receipt that said 1 small fry, 1 parfait, 1 Extra Sauce. The Extra Sauce was the indication of a 27 cent charge to get a sauce.

     

    Sauce wise... you can have ONE w/o charge for a 4 piece nugget, 2 for a 6 piece, and three for a 10 piece. And sorry, but a customer cannot be given a HANDFUL or TWO of cream, sugar/Equal/Splenda. Either tell us how many EXACTLY you want in it or how many to put in the bag. And to the one customer who tried to get smart with me and tell me he wanted 5000 creams and sugars and a little umbrella in his coffee. With a HUGE amount of sarcasm dripping in his voice, you cannot have our 4lb bags of sugar in your SMALL coffee those bags are used in making the sweet tea.

     

    NO, you canNOT get water instead of soda in a combo unless you pay for it as if it was a medium or large soda! The sodas are included in the price, you can either buy a bottled water or pretend your water is a soda and just pay that price. Throwing a little hissy fit over it just makes the customer look like a complete idiot. And I would make sure the little hissy fit was recorded! I back up so that the security cameras have a perfect shot of the person being obnoxious. I also keep my finger on the "talk" button on the headset. So that the managers hear what is being accused at the window. then they wonder why a manager pops in, explains EXACTLY what I just finished telling them and often asks them to "calm down or leave".

     

    NO a customer can't have a soda poured by the AUTOMATIC dispenser and then have us dig a styrofoam TEA cup out and pour the purchased drink into the UNpurchased cup. Uuuuuuuunnnnnnnlllllllleeeeeeesssssss, a customer want to pay for BOTH glasses. Then we can let them get away with that.

     

    Oh, and while I am getting to rant. NO no matter what person offered what. You CANNOT get discounts on anything other than Senior SMALLLLLLLLLLLLL drinks, or if for any reason your order was not correct and you call in AND have your receipt. But NO other reason, and employees need not ask in the drive thru for their discount meals because they WILL NOT GET THEM. You have to be in full uniform and ON duty to get your employee rate. NO they are not allowed to buy for their family & friends either. Heaven knows they have tried. Digging through trash cans to grab a random receipt to get free food does NOT work either. We look at the condition of the receipt, the date on it, which register it came off of... so customers throwing a hissy cant get away with that either. :look:

     

    I am pretty darned sure the Manager was following their store's proceedure to the utmost. And I APPLAUD them for that! There are a few :laugh: that buckle because they want to seem "nice" to customers well guess what? You just make them think "He/She is a HUGE pushover wallflower, we can DEFINITELY get free stuff off of them!" Don't believe that is the case? I know some of these types personally, and when you tell the customers NO they can't they usually can immediately peg it on that specific wallflower and often scream a huge amount of obscenities. They also occasionally will blurt out, "Oh ******* **** now how are we supposed to get this stuff, MAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!" then screech off.

     

    I hope that the manager in the article made/makes a full and speedy recovery, and I once again applaud them for NOT going against POLICY that is set in STONE by the owner/franchise.

     

     

    Sorry for the ranting, but it is relatively on topic. AND IS A VERY sore subject for me. I have been threatened(with bodily harm and/or being fired), grabbed, hit, had stuff thrown at me(coin change, drinks, old sandwich boxes) that customers had in their cars, clawed with really long fingernails, had dogs sicked on me, and all this is because they want free stuff and feel as customers they are entitled to it. Because of that CRAPPY age old adage of "the Customer is always right". I like the idea of places like Target and others that say you are not a Customer you are a Guest or a Patron. The saying is NOT the "Patron/Guest is always right" now is it? I really think that should be an idea used more often.