This happens every day I work, at least once if not more. I don't understand the desire to inform someone you are waiting when it is so obvious. Plus, why can't a person get a drink while they are waiting for other guests to arrive. They are the ones that are late, why do you have to suffer?
4. The desire to have a cell phone with you at all times (including in your car, at a restaurant, or while watching a movie).
It drives me bonkers when a person begins responding to a text while watching a movie at the movie theater. Tickets to a movie aren't cheap, let alone the cost of pop-corn and soda, why in the world do you want disturb your viewing experience (let alone those around you) just to write three letters LOL (by the way, this is not a word, nor is it out loud, it is pixelated). Furthermore, when did it become a problem for the human race to have human interaction? It's dinner time people, talk to the person that is in front of you instead of sending texts threw phone antennas.
3. The need to sale a holiday three months before the actual date, and then take down all merchandise the day before said holiday and begin sales of the next holiday.
If you read my last blog, you know my feelings towards the "pink" aisle. Currently, though the pink aisle quickly transformed to pastels. I am now being told bunnies, eggs, tulips, and shamrocks somehow go together. (I think they combined two holidays and it goes unnoticed to the wily consumer).
2. The response of many costumers when asked, "How are you today?," their response is "Diet Coke."
This is not a state of being people. If you must know most servers are talking about you behind your back when you do this. Let's all go back to Etiquette class and respond next time with, "Fine, thank you. And how are you?" Servers like to be noticed and recognized as people. We are not robots responding to your beck and call.
1. The reliance on cell phones and the near extinction of phone calls.
This is a mystery to me. Telephones were invented so we could talk to those that could not readily be in front of us. To find a cell phone today that provides clarity in sound while talking on the phone is almost an impossibility. Instead we consumers get phones that can communicate by text, Internet, e-mail, twitter, Facebook, blog, and whatever else they can think of that has no human voice behind it. Furthermore, text-ing is taking away language. Now in conversations I hear, IDK, OMG, LOL. These are letters people, speak words please, even when the telegraph was the source of communication, they spelled out STOP. And finally when did "text" become a verb?
