RIP George Carlin, CVS Policy Change (Um, Not Quite), And A Restaurant Dilemma
I wish I were sitting in a bucket of ice right now.
(EDIT: This blog entry was going to contain two or three additional topics, but I decided to cut it short because I’m freaking tired. More on that next time.)
- I just heard from my cousin that comedian George Carlin passed away early Sunday afternoon of heart failure. R.I.P., and prayers go out to his family.
In remembrance, I think I’ll go watch one of his stand-up routines (You Are All Diseased might be my favorite one.) I just can’t believe I missed out on a chance to see him perform recently.
- So we swung by CVS this morning, and while checking out, I paid attention to the credit card scanner machine/price thingy (you tell me what they’re called!) as my items were being rung up. I handed my cashier my ECBs, and as she scanned them, I noticed something peculiar: the ECBs were reducing my after-tax total!
(From my experiences, ECBs always are deducted from one’s pre-tax total, thus also reducing the sales tax amount.)
“Was this a new policy?” I thought to myself. As my sister went to the checkout counter, I watched as the cashier rung up her items. When her ECBs were scanned, her total dropped as expected; her sales tax was reduced as well as her subtotal!
It took me about five minutes to realize what happened: I had purchased nothing but food!
- So I really hate it when I get terrible service at a restaurant that I really enjoy dining at. Case in point: on Friday, my sister and I went to the local Korean BBQ restaurant, where we got pretty ridiculously horrible service. Our waitress took our order about two minutes after we sat down—it’s a good thing we had already decided on the all-you-can-eat BBQ—and took several minutes to get us our drinks, which came AFTER most of the food had arrived. I say most because we didn’t yet get our rice or steamed egg dish.
Worse yet, after she brought us our drinks, we didn’t see her at our table for the rest of the night (we saw her at other tables, though)! I pushed the call button on our table three times, and nobody responded! We were forced to flag down another waitress, who quickly got us the missing parts of our dinner. She even thanked us profusely for her tip, which we demanded that she keep for herself.
So what to do? We frequent this place often, and this is the first time we really got terrible service. We’ll probably go back, and hopefully we don’t encounter that horrible waitress again.
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