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  • #61
    Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
    Oh, dear God.

    Stuff like this really, really disturbs me. I have a confession to make: I quit keeping up with the news...too many stories about harm to children. I think it's making me neurotic and depressed, hearing stuff like this.
    Same here. I can't watch any tv shows where children are harmed, and the news stories are even worse. Ever since I had my daughter, I've become super sensitive to things like that.

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    • #62
      Quoth Mighty Girl View Post
      On a side note- at my salon they have a sign up that says "Unattended children will be given espresso and a puppy".
      One of the greatest signs I have ever seen, and have seen it in a couple of places, reads "Unnattended children will be sold as slaves."

      "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is       Still A Customer."

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      • #63
        Quoth CrazedClerk View Post
        "well you just lost my business"
        Apparently this phrase is supposed to strike fear in the hearts of retail employees, cause mountains to shake and oceans to dry up. However, I have no idea why this is so.
        Last edited by kerrisan; 09-04-2006, 08:27 PM.
        ~*~"If your gift is that of serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, do a good job of teaching." -Romans 12:7~*~

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        • #64
          Quoth kerrisan View Post
          Apparently this phrase is supposed to strike fear in the hearts of retail employees...
          ...I have no idea why this is so.
          Umm...possibly, if we lose too many customers and their business, there's not much point in going to work???

          Most of the time it's an idle threat, because, 9 times out of 10, we do see them back in, but the threat, if it was to be followed through, would be a sobering one.
          Too tired of living and too tired to end it. What a conundrum.

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          • #65
            Quoth kerrisan View Post
            Apparently this phrase is supposed to strike fear in the hearts of retail employees, cause mountains to shake and oceans to dry up. However, I have no idea why this is so.
            No joke. Honestly, my take on "Well, you just lost my business" and it's closely related cousins "I'll never shop here again" and "Well, from now on I'm shopping at (insert name of main competition)." is this:

            1. Yeah, right, I'll probably see you again soon and you'll be sucky then, too.
            2. If, by some freak of chance, you actually do never return, then I feel a kind of fiendish glee that our competition has to put up with you now.
            3. Whatever it was that pissed you off is probably a pretty standard business practice that you just don't like, or something out of our control (like not having that book in stock cuz it's out of print). I bet when you go to our competition you'll find the same thing or something comparable that'll piss you off. And if you tell THEM you'll never shop there again, where ARE you gonna shop?
            4. You leaving and never returning will raise the general level of non-suckiness in the store, probably attracting more non-sucky customers and giving us MORE business now that no one has to listen to you rant!

            So really, I just want to applaud the people who pull one of those phrases out and try to slap me with them.
            Any fool can criticize, comdemn, and complain—and most do. ~ Dale Carnegie

            Sarah: That's not fair!
            Jareth: You say that so often. I wonder what your basis for comparison is...

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            • #66
              To be honest, all of the sterilization talk is seriously disturbing me. I don't think that should be something that's banded about so freely. Yes, the stories in this thread are horrifying, but still... How could something like forced sterilization even be regulated? Who would be in charge of that?

              I'm not trying to start a debate (and I won't enter one either if someone tries) but I just wanted to say my two cents.

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              • #67
                Quoth Ree View Post
                Most of the time it's an idle threat, because, 9 times out of 10, we do see them back in, but the threat, if it was to be followed through, would be a sobering one.
                Yes, this is what I meant. 9 out of 10 times it's just a last-ditch effort to get sympathy.
                ~*~"If your gift is that of serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, do a good job of teaching." -Romans 12:7~*~

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                • #68
                  A humorous take on cookies and parenting:

                  http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20050408
                  You gotta polish a memory like a stone. Chip off the parts that remind you it was just a game. Work it until it's indistinguishable from any other memory.

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