Archive through October 23, 2002
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Archive through October 23, 2002
Sia | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 03:04 pm     Abbynormal, DH & I went to Outback for the first time a month or more ago, and the waitress SAT NEXT TO ME on the bench seat while taking our order and explaining the menu! ROTFL! I thought it was weird, but she was friendly, we left a good tip, & I asked for the manager to report that she'd been a good server--the girl got a new pin to add to her huge number of performance-merit pins. (You posted while I was composing my huge list of ADDITIONAL quirks!) |
Abbynormal | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 03:28 pm     I don't know why that bothers me so badly. I have waitressed for many years and enjoyed it. It pays to be friendly but I would prefer a more professional attitude from my server. I don't want to be their best bud and if they are so tired they need to sit down or squat, they need to re-think their job options. Just the other day our server asked if we would like an appetizer. I politely said no thanks. She chirps, are you sure? That flew all over me for some reason! Hmmm, am I sure? I believe I said NO, didn't I? I know that reaction was probably me just being in a bad mood or something, but I blame it on her, since she was de-squatting as she asked me the question. |
Aunt_Bob | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 03:49 pm     Sia...I was sooooo kidding about the DOTS......I know what they are and I use them all the time (on the net)....just because... ...and for no other reason. Justme...it's funny...I didn't think anything of it until I read your 'thing' concerning your closet arrangement. That is me plus: hangers*ONE type ONLY...shoes*more organized than a shoe store...belts & everything else...has to 'make sense'. Hmmmmm...maybe I will check out that website that JudyJetson mentioned. And...Abbynormal...yes...yes...yes...and one more...YES!!! What IS up with that???? I ABSOLUTELY HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!!! When it does, I request they STAND the heck UP,like NORMAL servers. And........one guy had NERVE enough to sit down right next to my daughter, who at the time was only 12, but she could pass for 16 easy(we were in a booth)...and he slapped his order book on the table and proceeded to ask us what we wanted to order....I asked him if there was something wrong with his health or his legs or something that prevented him from standing up and taking our order and he told me that was his way of being 'friendly'...I told him, since you did not ask, thus did not get permission to sit next to my daughter, it's NOT friendly, it's RUDE...he concluded that I must not be from around these parts, --yeah, I'm from Jersey,so? ...well, 'southeners' are 'friendly' and northeners are not!...and no one else ever complained about him sitting his 'friendly behind' down next to them to take there order before!...I actually tried to be nice to him, even though I was steaming inside...heck, he just wouldn't take the hint that I thought it was rude and had nothing to do with his 'job'.......this was at a Buffalo's Cafe (like TGIF)in Huntsville, Alabama. |
Aunt_Bob | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:04 pm     Sia...I like your term "severely organized"... then again, I'm rather fond of the term 'anal retentive' also...don't know why it means what it does...but, it just sounds so COOL! And...Abbynormal...busting a gut over your term "de-squatting". Next time this happens to me, I will politely request that they "kindly de-squat...thank you." |
Suitsmefine | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:10 pm     Okay, does this ever happen to anyone else....You go to the movie, pick out the perfect seat, the theatre is now full , the movie has started, and A PACK OF TEENAGERS SIT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU IN THE LAST SEATS AVAILABLE!!!!!! they didn't come to watch the movie, oh no, they came to giggle and talk and throw things at each other and get up and down a million times!!!!! Anyway that just bothers me to no end... it brings out this terrible person in me and makes me say AWFUL things.... |
Hillbilly | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:10 pm     Aunt Bob, don't believe that 'that's the way we do in down here in the south' crap. It is considered rude where I am and the first waiter fella that plops his behind down next to one of my gals is gonna be pickin his behind up off'n the floor in the next 5 seconds of his life. |
Whoami | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:21 pm     Suits, I had a group of kids do that once, but they were sitting a few seats down from me in the same row. They were getting up and down so many times (and tromping over me to do so), I finally grabbed one of them by the arm and told them, "why don't you find a seat and SIT there?" A while later, I noticed them get up again, and go the other way. Oh well, at least I got them off of me! My movie theatre problem is, I'm 5'3" and can't see over most people. Almost always, a couple will come in, a big husky man with a small statured woman. They aim for the seats in front of me, and it's always the man who sits in front of me, blocking out 2/3 of my view of the screen! Hmmmm, this should have gone into a "pet peeves" thread. Oh well. Maybe it's a quirk to expect to see the movie you've paid for! LOL. |
Aunt_Bob | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:24 pm     Hillbilly...I'm saying...(I'm in agreement) I was thinking...I doubt seriously, if her dad was sitting there instead of me...if that guy wanted to be able to clock out at the end of his shift...NO WAY would he have sat there...because HE sure would have been CLOCKED OUT right there and then!!!!! But, I'm not a violent person...I try to 'reason' with people...and if that doesn't work...I usually just 'walk away'. I know that's probably what I should have done that night...but darn it...I wanted my Buffalo Wings!!!!!!! |
Aunt_Bob | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:30 pm     What drives me to (want to) drink is when parents bring their babies and toddlers to R rated movies....the babies are crying and the toddlers are watching sex & violence and asking daddy "but, WHY do I have to whisper?" and "Daddy, WHY is that man taking that ladies clothes off?" |
Kstme | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:40 pm     OMG...the movie thing! I go beserk! I paid for this and I want to watch it! I've embarrassed thekid and the dh, I know. But it puts me over the edge! I have very bad vision and sometimes "hearing" is "seeing!" |
Whit4you | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 04:58 pm     Well, I don't know if this is a quirk or not - but I'm like the opposite of most here when it comes to cloths. I'm fanatical about NOT folding them or sorting them - my roommates have a hard time with this - till they learn that if they do fold my cloths I will just unfold them. I have always kept my cloths in a big freezer box. Now I have a rubber maid type box about that same size. ALL my cloths go into it. Except my toeless socks which go into a basket. This seems to really bug my roommates/ boyfriends over the years. But to me it's sooooo pointless to fold my cloths - if I fold them then I can't rummage through them for the one thing I want to wear. I've owned alot of dressers but never used one for clothing. I do however hang up the few dressy dresses I've owned (but then I've only owned a few of them as I don't WEAR dresses lol) and a few dress suits. Those get hung up. That's it. The rest of my clothing is in the huge rubbermaid container. Now normally all the cloths that I wear tend to stay at the top... see? But occasionally I'll be looking for that one particular shirt that I want to wear so I'm digging and then the cloths I wear the most end up not all on top. So once every few months I have to sort them all "Stuff I basically never wear - gets put in a garbage bag and donated" "Stuff I want to keep around but don't wear that much - gets put in the bottom. "Stuff I want to wear but not ALL the time gets thrown in then" and then "stuff I wear all the time - gets thrown on top" In case your wondering about wrinkles... 99% of my cloths are wrinkle free, but there is that occasional shirt or whatever that I do love - that gets wrinkled in this atmosphere... in a case like that I just toss it in the drier for a few minutes with a damp towel and it's wrinkle free. |
Tess | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 05:09 pm     I have no quirks....I have no quirks.....I have no quirks..... <still in deeeeep denial> |
Webkitty | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 05:32 pm     So many wonderful quirks here! This is making me feel all warm and fuzzy I have the movie quirk too. I won't go to the movies on the weekend or at night, only during the day, during the week. Its usually pretty empty then. I also can't stand the smell of movie house popcorn. I love microwave popcorn (especailly Kettle Corn type) but the stuff at the theaters makes me queasy. And if someone is munching away anywhere near me, its all over, I get distracted and all I can hear is the munching. This drives my poor husband crazy (he is soooo easy going!) but he is at the point now where he has the drill down. If this happens, he just automatically gets ready to move to another part of the theater. And another thing, why, when the theater is almost empty, do people sit near me? Why would they want to? I would think they would want have a section all to themselves? I also can't write with a ball point pen. It has to be a Pilot fine or razor tipped fluid ink pen. With all the quirks I have, I'm surprised at myself for not having the crouching waiter quirk. This has happened to me and I could barely keep from bursting out laughing. I thought it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen. Oh well! Carry on, fellow quirky tvchers! |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:06 pm     Webkitty, I cannot write with one of those fluid tipped pens. But that's not a quirk. I really can't physically write with one of them. No ink comes out. I have no idea why. Other people can have just written with the pen, but if I pick it up, it will not write. |
Fruitbat | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:08 pm     Juju, can you see your reflection in a mirror? |
Suitsmefine | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:15 pm     Webkitty, Oh, that drives me nuts too, especially when it a young couple that just came to "neck" and they have to sit right in front of you to do it when a whole section of DARK theatre is empty!!!! UGHHHHH Like I paid good money to watch that !!!!! I usually kick the back of their seats ( While saying sorry, ) until they move, WHY SHOULD I MOVE, WHEN I WAS THERE FIRST!!!LOL |
Abbynormal | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 09:07 pm     Bat, you kill me, really!  |
Webkitty | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 09:20 pm     Bat, your one liners are priceless! Juju, are you talking about a fountain pen? Maybe I'm describing the pen wrong. They are made by Pilot, and they have very fine tips, and you don't have to press down on the paper hard at all for then to write. (I call this fluid) Suitsme, I've never run into neckers but one time we had the whole theater to ourselves, and right before the movie a group of older teen guys came in and sat in the row right behind us! Why? I have no clue, but my husband said they did it just to irratate me. Well, they had on sandals and their feet were stinky! I was squeaking with panic and wanted to move but my husband difused the situation by telling me that he was drawing the line at stinky feet. What was next, jingling jewelry? He would move for popcorn munchers, but that was it. But, he has a way of saying things in such a funny manner that I started giggling and couldn't stop, so it was a stand off. The stinky footed teens and the giggling woman. Who knew going to the movies in the afternoon could hold such drama?  |
Sisalou | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 10:31 pm     OMG - ROFLMAO at Fruitbat and Webkitty!! "I was squeaking with panic and wanted to move but my husband difused the situation by telling me that he was drawing the line at stinky feet. What was next, jingling jewelry?" Whit - I bet you caused a few panic attacks in our "closet" friends with your rubber maid clothes bins. That isn't even one of my quirks and I was having heart palpatations just reading about it! |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 10:49 pm     Quote:Juju, are you talking about a fountain pen? Maybe I'm describing the pen wrong. They are made by Pilot, and they have very fine tips, and you don't have to press down on the paper hard at all for then to write. (I call this fluid)
Webkitty, those are the ones. I can't get them to write. Fruitbat, no, I do not have a reflection in a mirror. Should I?
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Bob2112 | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 12:35 am     I think this is the image Juju sees in the mirror! <what a good looking Dawg!> |
Djgirl5235 | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 05:42 am     Oh do I have a couple of stories for you all!! Squatting Waitstaff: A few months back, my boyfriend, his best friend and girlfriend, all went to the Outback for dinner. As we were enjoying our drinks, having just gotten our table, the waitress from Defcon-2 comes tripping over to our table. This girl procedes to squat at our table and in the loudest voice possible precedes to tell us the specials for that evening. Now, my sweet, lovely boyfriend had had a few beers by that point, and can be known to be sarcastic at times, but is usually well behaved in a public place....... Not this time!!! Our DF-2 waitress, was also dripping in sarcasm as she was taking our orders, and my boyfriend preceded to through sarcasm back at her, at almost the same volume as her. Well... This went on throughout the dinner, as I'm frantically pinching his arm, or leg, or just about ready to whack him upside the head... I was thinking that if he stopped she would - not a chance! He left her a good tip, while I was charging for the door just to get out of there... You know, it's funny... but I"m not sure if you had to be there or not to understand it... Teens @ movies: Okay... so I had read "Hannibal" about a month before the movie was released. The movie comes to our town and I'm DYING to see it. We line up, get our seats sit down and who should sit down in the seats in front of us? A group of 10 teenagers - one might have been 15 if they were lucky. Well... the jumpy butt syndrome started almost as soon as they sat down. I figured (silly me of course) that once the movie started they would stop - NOOOO!!!! Well... I waited about 5 minutes into the movie and politely asked them to stop as the rest of us were trying to watch the movie. Yeah, like that worked. 15 minutes later after having them jumping from seat to seat, talking to their friend 5 seats over, and just general ruckus, I left the theatre and found the usher = you know, the guy who stood at least 6 inches smaller than I did (and I'm 5'4"), and that I could have crushed with my pinkie... Yeah, he was going to solve this problem (note - sarcasm) Right!!!! He walked into the theatre, watched them for about 2 minutes (in which they passed in silence), and left. At most we enjoyed about 2 more minutes of silence to watch the movie before it started again. I didn't even wait, I walked back out, and he was still right outside the door - he walked back in and gave them a "warning"... Very effective, right?! Wrong! As soon as I sat back down - they knew who had given them the warning and were making my movie watching experience a hell ride - well... then the food throwing started all directed at me... This was about 10 minutes after the warning. I had had enough!!!!!!! I stormed out of the theatre, walked down the hall with this little usher at my heels trying to appease me, and I'm all the while asking to speak to the manager. The manager walks over from the first theatre, where they were having a pay-per-view WWF event (with LARGE bouncers even)... I explained the situation, quite hottly to the manager, who gave my money back, and grabbed one of the bouncers to eject the teens from the theatre. As I was walking back, they all were glaring at me - like I cared, they were out and I could finally enjoy the movie... Let me just interject that I was watching this with my EX-boyfriend, and this is one of the reasons he's my ex... Anyway, as I walked back into the theatre, the whole place erupted into applause - apparently though, I'm the only one who thought to take a stand with the situation, the rest were just happy to try and concentrate on the movie around their distractions - not me!!!! Anyway, those are my stories.... |
Aunt_Bob | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 08:25 am     \ |
Imbewitched | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 09:07 am     Oh my goodness, this thread is a riot!! But at the same time it has made me aware of something about myself. I used to have several of the quirks list. The toilet paper, the towels and closet things were major quirks of mine. But for reasons I can't explain, I no longer give a second thought to these things. As long as the toilet paper is on the roll, the towels are in the cabinet and the clothes are in the closet, it's all good. What's up with that? But other quirks remain. The one that drive the girls at work crazy is that I will unstaple, restack and restaple any pack of papers that are not perfectly straight. |
Webkitty | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 09:16 am     Oh Juju dawgie! Don't feel bad, I had an X husband that couldn't wear wristwatches because they wouldn't work when he put them on! ~scary~ More quirks from the vault: When I go grocery shopping, I have to have double paper bags, not plastic. This confounds the baggers no end, they look at me like I'm well, quirky (usually very young teen boys or very older men) But, I live in Florida, and the double paper keeps the food colder longer, and the items don't fall out of them like they do in the pastic bags. I also use the double bags for all sorts of things around the house. But they have to be double, not single, those break. And I watch the bagger like a hawk, they always put too much in each bag, like 4 bottles of seltzer water, too heavy! I also have to tell them to keep all the cold things together. This seems like common sense to ME! lol Sometimes I'll luck out and get to bag myself. I like that. I can do it just how I like it, and I'm fast! Then, they always want to help me out to the car (its a big thing down here) but I don't want them to because they always want to put the bags in the trunk. Its too hot for that here. I always put them in the car with the AC up full blast until I get home. I have a fear of spoilage. Quirky or not? Imbewitched: I used to concern myself with the those things too and now don't, yea, what is up with that? (not that I NEED any more quirks or anything...)  |
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