The Service Industry I hate the service industry. It just irratates me. All the time. It's to the point now, that I can't expect to get good service from anyone. When I do get good service its mind numbing and I end up tipping way over the tip scale. But generally speaking at the gas station I don't expect a hello back, at restaurants I should start bringing my own water cause the waiters usually care not to keep my pallet clensed, and I shouldn't even bother thanking the delivery person anymore. They never say welcome.

Take last night for example. And keep in mind, these things would not be a big deal, but they keep happening, and keep piling up on one another. I go to the corner store or whatever you want to call it and we order two sandwiches and get two drinks. 16 dollars later we sit and wait for them to be done. Now, I don't know really what we payed 16 dollars for cause it wasn't the friendly service. While in line waiting to order, we wait unacknowledged cause the girl at the register is on the phone. Yeah, I can see, she's taking an order, but a simple "be right with you" would have resulted in me being content and never making this first point. So then, we wait, and eventually hear what I think to be the names of our sandwiches mumbled by some useless dude behind the counter. Remember, we ordered two sandwiches.. and now we recieve one bag. You would think a normal question to ask this guy would be, which one is which, but maybe he wasn't born on this planet. So I ask, "which one is which?", and I swear, he looked at me like I was some sort of idiot or something. Like, I'm crazy for asking. He starts to open the bag and I say "never mind" and proceed to state very bluntly "Thanks Buddy".. AHH.

I don't know. It's not really a big deal, but its annoying. I wouldn't care if this happened just once and nothing like it ever happened. I'd still be annoyed but I probably wouldn't blog about it. However, it's annoying. and I don't have much else to blog about.  ¶ 3/15/2004 11:15:00 AM