I don't care where you work, you don't get special treatment

[Thud-n-Blunder]

"Ah, for a pin to puncture pomposity!" - I. Asimov

"Do you know who I am?"

I heard about someone's response to this at an airline ticket counter. When this would-be VIP trotted that line out, she got on the intercom and said, "Attention, please! I have an amnesiac here at the ticket counter who can't remember who he is! Can someone please come here and help identify him?"

It's probably an urban myth, but it'd be nice if it weren't!

[Thud-n-Blunder]

Additional states

Not yet, but annexation plans are underway to make Canada the 51st, 52nd, and 53rd States: East Alaska, North Michigan, and West Vermont.

West Vermont? I thought it'd be West New Hampshire, so they can have an early say in the primary process!

[AmericanZero8503]

Sorry to steer this back to the topic...


Its really funny about the sort of people who will use the "I work with/at/etc..."

We had the Republican candidate for mayor come in to the store...and I went through his whole transaction till I noticed the name on the check. I asked if he was that guy and he said yes and shook my hand...pretty cool guy. Never acted cocky once.

We also have our Congressman's wife as a customer...and we have various other TV personalities and local Government people come in all the time...never once have I had this problem.

It seems to me that the only people who would ever use that are the low-man on the totem pole.

-"I work at the Pentagon."
-"Well thats great someone needs to mop the 17 miles of hallway they have there"


***I've been to the Pentagon and they have a little shopping 'mall' in there with a complete CVS Pharmacy...so not everyone who works there is an important military figure...sorry***

[mirth]

Andie MacDowell is our local c-list celebrity, besides someone who starred in "Night Court." (Which is much better than Groundhog Day imho...) She is famous for using the "Don't you know who I am?!" line in grocery stores and for concert tickets. She hasn't aged well, and nobody has a clue who she is. Since she got ragged about it in our local free weekly (for several weeks straight) she has chilled out a bit and can be very nice.

[AmericanZero8503]

Andie MacDowell is our local c-list celebrity, besides someone who starred in "Night Court." (Which is much better than Groundhog Day imho...)

Is it wrong that I thought her and Elaine from Seinfeld were the same person?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Oh, I am all for being nice to cops, and extending them courtesies. But when they DEMAND it? Uh, no. Because frankly, that is usually when they are proving that they are idiot Entitlement Whore cops, who probably will never do you a good turn if things are reversed. The GOOD and NICE cops rarely have to ask for special treatment. And they are not EWs.

You are so right. All these dimbulbs are saying is that they can be bought. Cheaply.

If you are a cop, are you suggesting that you'll let me break the law later if I do you a personal favor?
If you are a doctor, are you suggesting that if I ever find myself under your care, you'll remember me and make sure I don't die? Does that mean people who DON'T do petty favors for you end up wearing a toe tag?
If you are a lawyer, that means....what? That you are just plain...I dunno, STUPID?

[ArenaBoy]

St. Louis? Most dangerous city in the U.S?

Yeah....um.....there are some people here from Detroit, DC, Los Angeles, NYC, and Newark that would like a word with you......

While Detroit's in bad shape, it isn't THAT bad. Most of the crimes you read about tend to be exaggerated (Coming up at 10, news as to why petting a dog is bad for you, but we won't tell you that the chances of it happening are 1/1,000,000,000,0000,000,000. Really all Detroit is just run down.

[greensinestro]

Doctors are my pet peeve with this type of thread, particularly the ones who turn out to be pediatricians. I one time had the liberty to tell someone to their face, (while not working) that being the sorry attitude and temper they have, I certainly would not want my child visiting their office for fear of how they would react whenever my child pissed them off.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I had my knee worked on a couple years back by a doctor who, despite this story, I liked very much, and still do.

He came into Kinko's to get something done and wanted to whine about the price and shouldn't I give him a break. I said, "Dude? I know what you charge, okay? No break!"

[vonkarolinas]

[QUOTE=Jester;220747
Oh, I am all for being nice to cops, and extending them courtesies. But when they DEMAND it? Uh, no. Because frankly, that is usually when they are proving that they are idiot Entitlement Whore cops, who probably will never do you a good turn if things are reversed. The GOOD and NICE cops rarely have to ask for special treatment. And they are not EWs.

[/QUOTE]


I can agree there, I'm just fortunate enough to never have encountered them in any kind of retail or support position. Just the nice ones.

[mattm04]

The same rules apply when special ordering a cake or deli platter at my grocery store. If you came in too late, you're SOL. The ONE exception we made was a dad wanted a special cake made up that said "Welcome Home <Name> " and specific decorations. The welcome home was for His son, returning from his 2nd tour Iraq, we made sure the cake was perfect and even offered it at a discount, but he refused. We still have the thank you note signed by father and son.

[vonkarolinas]

The same rules apply when special ordering a cake or deli platter at my grocery store. If you came in too late, you're SOL. The ONE exception we made was a dad wanted a special cake made up that said "Welcome Home <Name> " and specific decorations. The welcome home was for His son, returning from his 2nd tour Iraq, we made sure the cake was perfect and even offered it at a discount, but he refused. We still have the thank you note signed by father and son.

Now that is really awesome.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

I get a lovely variation on this, because I refill phone cards for GI's all night so they can call home while sitting out in the Iraqi desert. If something goes wrong and we can't help them, the soldiers will sometimes get attitude with us. However the grunts will usually just cuss and hang up. The officers are the ones who give us the 'Do you know who I am' routine.

Dude, you're a petty officer in the Marines. I have no idea who you are, and don't even THINK about trying to intimidate me over the phone, cause I will laugh in your face. I am 3 thousand miles away...I am not scared of you.

I told my Bro this (he's just getting discharged this month) and he told me that was the correct response to them. Cause if their superiors found out they were throwing their position around like that, they'd lose the skin on their back.

[crazylegs]

UNLESS it is a cop. I've learned that cops have good memories and if you do good by them, later down the line if you cross paths and it is you on the receiving end, they tend to remember the "good deed" you did for them and show you a kindness in return.

In the UK this is seen as corruption, as such you will be fired for it.

[wolfie]

Not yet, but annexation plans are underway to make Canada the 51st, 52nd, and 53rd States: East Alaska, North Michigan, and West Vermont. Sorry about your luck there, Puerto Rico.

(ducks all projectiles coming at me from Canada and Puerto Rico...)

Bit of trivia - do you know how your Executive Mansion got the name "White House"? From when it was repainted to cover up the burn marks after you tried to annex us back in 1812. Our boys got to Washington, yours never reached Ottawa.