Posted on 07/24/2014 2:14:42 PM PDT by Swordmaker
This recount, found on The Meta Picture, tells the story of one restaurant’s quest to find out why they kept getting bad reviews despite serving the same number of customers on a daily basis.
It took a look into their past to discover exactly what has changed in the last ten years – and their findings tell more about how we as a country have changed – possibly, for the worse.
Now, although this particular instance may or may not be true, it tells a story that is all too common today in America.
We are so engrossed in ourselves and in our technology that we lose sight of the importance of the relationships we have and the importance of experiencing things rather than recording them.
Sometimes we just need to put the phone away and get back to the basics.
I’ve texted but don’t know how to capitalize or do numbers, so I spell them out like “eight.”
These articles get on the web alot. Someone creates a fake article that feeds into common stereotypes. Then a bunch of people keep posting it further feeding the stereotype.
I stopped into a Subway last week and while I was waiting to place my order I observed two gals seated at a table together, both fixated on their smart phone or whatever they were.
for the time I was in there, I never observed them have any contact with each other whatsoever...........
“I really tighten up when I see somebody ahead of me in a cashier line taking the time to write a check.”
Well,then it would be best if you do not read what is below because it is real and you may not survive it.
Elderly lady in grocery line:
Lady: That can of soup is 2 for 1. You just charged me the full amount.
Cashier: When the second one is rung up the computer will make the adjustment.
Lady: Oh, I don’t trust those things.
Cashier: OK… that will be $49.22.
Lady: Show me where I got the soup two for one.
Cashier: Right here. After it rang up the second can of soup, you can see it deducted the same amount in the line below.
Lady: How do I know it was for the soup?
Cashier: Well, it is the same amount as the soup and it occurs in next line.
Lady: I should have been charged zero for the second can of soup.
Cashier: It works out the same. The charge and then the rebate, end up being zero.
Lady: But you charged me for the second can of soup.
Cashier: Yes, but then I deducted it here.
Lady: Why?
Cashier: I don’t know.
Lady: OK…….How much was it?
Cashier: The soup?
Lady: No the total.
Cashier: $49.22
(Lady has been in line for 5 minutes but now decides to find hand bag. Digs through, finds wallet. Fumbles with wallet, opens check book.)
Lady: Where are we?
Cashier: Detroit.
Lady: No not what state, what store is this?
Cashier: Safeway.
(Lady closes wallet and puts it on counter. Goes back into her purse and finds glasses and puts on. Fumbles with wallet and opens check book. Closes check book, opens purse and gets out a pen. Opens check book.)
Lady: What’s the date?
Cashier: May 20th.
Lady: M….a……y 2….0. Is this 2013?
Cashier: 2014.
Lady: 2…..0……1…..3
Cashier: 14
Lady: What’s 14?
Cashier: 2014.
Lady: Why did you tell me it was 2013?
Cashier: It’s 2014.
Lady: I’ll have to start over. V……O……I……D.
Cashier: You could have just changed it.
Lady: No, they would never take it. Then it would bounce and you would charge me.
Cashier: OK.
Lady: What’s the date?
Cashier: Still, May 20th, 2014.
(Lady looks at him with suspicious distain.)
Lady: M…..a…..y 2…..0 2…..0…….1……4. Where are we?
Cashier: Safeway
Lady: S…a…f…e…w…a…y. Safeway right?
Cashier: Yes, Mamma.
Lady: How much was it?
Cashier: $49.22.
Lady: $.....4…..9….2….2
(Lady opens up check register, begins to meticulously copy the check information into the register. But does not give the check to the cashier. She even performs the balance subtraction. Closes her wallet and puts it back in her purse. )
Cashier: Mamma …. I need the check.
Lady: Oh….
(Lady opens purse, gets wallet, opens check book. Hands cashier the check.)
Cashier: Mamma… this was the first check. It says VOID.
Lady: Oh…. I forgot to put that one in the register.
(Lady meticulously copies the information for the voided check into her register. Closes her wallet and puts it back in her purse.)
Cashier: Mamma …. I still need the check.
(Lady get out her wallet, opens it up, puts on her glasses and hands the check to the cashier. Closes her wallet and puts it back in her purse.)
Cashier: Mamma, I need to see your Driver’s License.
Lady: I don’t have one. I don’t need one. I ride the bus.
Cashier: Do you have some ID with your picture on it?
Lady: No, I only have pictures of my grandkids. You want to see them?
Cashier: No, that’s OK. Do you have anything with your name on it?
Lady: The check I just gave you.
Cashier: Anything else?
Lady: I have my water bill.
Cashier: That will be fine.
(Lady goes back into purse and pulls out crumpled envelope with water bill in it. Carefully opens it up and hands the bill to the cashier.)
Lady: See…… there’s my name. That’s me.
Cashier: OK, thanks.
(Cashier’s line has now grown to 22 people. Heads bobbing to the right and left to see what is going on.)
Cashier: I’m going on break.
We stopped at a restaurant in a little town and it had a sign “No Cell Phones”.
I didn’t give it a lot of thought until you mentioned it, but that does seem a little ludicrous. I don’t think it took me 3 minutes to figure out how to use the camera in my smartphone, and it only takes me that long to get a picture if I’m trying to take one of my cats.
Dude, you are my hero.
I don’t know that I’d smash her phone, but I certainly wouldn’t go back to that establishment if I got that sort of treatment.
Give the people what they want!
Exactly.
Why the heck do people need to be taking pictures of themselves and each other eating a meal?
Really?
That's great.
I'm going to have to start using it.
Maybe we’ve advanced to getting video of food, not just pics.
I don’t have one, don’t need one, and flat refuse to get one because I hate people who do this. I bought my wife an apple Iphone and it wakes me up almost every morning with text messages from family with pictures or other junk!
Not me, ever!
Action Food!
You are assuming 100% occupancy in both time period at the venue. . . looking at the time it took to be seated, it wasn't.
Standing O
and what did you do about it?
We went out with my step son and fiancé. he started texting act.
Let’s just say it didn’t last long and he hasn’t it done it since whenever he sits at a table with me.
I’m going to need my smart phone on so that the drone can focus on my table when it delivers the food.
The other day my cousins daughter posted a pic of herself after she got ready to go to dinner, then a pic of her and her husbands food, and last but not least 2-3 pics of them shoving the food in their mouths. 5-6 pics over a fricken dinner at Outback. Unbelievable. I unfriend you!!
Not only the check writer, but also the customer (usually an older woman) who, after the clerk has rung up and bagged a $125 order of groceries, suddenly remembers she has to pay for them and starts rummaging in her purse for the card or the checkbook. Then there are the types whose cards are rejected or can't remember their pin and have to get the manager over to clear up the mess.
I recall when the scanners first went into operation, the prediction was that customers would soon be able to wheel the buggy through the scanner and all items would be totaled automatically with no human interaction. Whatever happened to that?
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