Posted on 05/08/2011 7:58:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Hey Kramer
No cheese for you. NEXT
Must admit I missed that.
Too bad the clerk’s name wasn’t Apu...
Condiments are generally for purchased items that they make sense to be put on; e.g. you wouldn’t get a packet of coffee creamer for a hot dog, but mustard and ketchup would be assumed OK. Cheese sauce on chips, when the sauce is not marked for a specific use or sale, makes a kind of borderline sense at a store that sells the chips. (People used to think me weird for putting mustard on potato chips.) I think the guy had a lousy lawyer.
....he just found it before it was lost.....
“The clerk and manager let this get completely out of hand. They should have let the guy walk out of the store, then put up a sign by the cheese dispenser so it would be clear to customers in the future.”
So you are defending the thug who assaulted a female clerk for upholding store policy? Even IF the policy was unclear (very unlikely) a civilized man would have stopped and apologized, not continue his idiocy.
A convenience store over this way has prosecuted two employees for one stealing a small fountain drink and the other a hot dog.
I didn’t know he was a stoner
“Condiments are generally for purchased items that they make sense to be put on; e.g. you wouldn’t get a packet of coffee creamer for a hot dog, but mustard and ketchup would be assumed OK. Cheese sauce on chips, when the sauce is not marked for a specific use or sale, makes a kind of borderline sense at a store that sells the chips. (People used to think me weird for putting mustard on potato chips.) I think the guy had a lousy lawyer.”
Just for the sake of friendly discussion, I am going to disagree with your statement about taking things other than for their direct use. For example: I’m driving down the street and my allergies are acting up. I go in the convenience store, buy a soft drink, but I also take a few paper napkins for my runny nose. What if the guy in this story bought a hot dog at the convience store and then put the nacho cheese on the hot dog? That is not it’s intended use, but is it any different than the furnished mustard or relish?
MMMMMM...Nacho-cheez Ping!
Eeeeew...bright yellow plastic cheez that looks like the seats in bus stations....eeeewww
I’m saying that implied condiment policy shouldn’t be any tighter than this. It might be looser. It’s like telling a diner, after he has begun to dine, that oh by the way mustard is not for french fries or ham sandwiches, but only for hot dogs and hamburgers. The time to say or post that was before the diner sat at the table or passed the condiment bar with the mustard dispenser. Recognizing that some people will push the envelope with condiments, a posted condiment policy is only fair if not all condiments may be used freely with all food.
Do you have any 7-11s in your neck of the woods? How many of them post the purposes to which condiments are limited?
“Do you have any 7-11s in your neck of the woods? How many of them post the purposes to which condiments are limited?”
Some things are obvious therefore no signs are necessary. How many people open up a bag of chips and start pumping cheese into it? Few if any. I think that demonstrates its pretty commonly understood what the condiments are for. If I buy a drink at a fast food place where they offer free refills, I understand that I can’t fill up a few empty 2 liter bottles to take home.
The much bigger issue is the customer assaulting the clerk when informed of store policy. Rather than apologize for the misunderstanding like a normal person would, he attacks her.
Almost all McDonalds have the fountain posted that free refills are for the duration of the visit and cannot be in containers brought from outside the store.
The squirt of cheese sauce condiment was de minimis. If an assault (not just harsh words) took place as alleged this is not excusable but neither does it turn the event into a de facto theft.
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