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Sigh, people just want Walmart Supercenters. They want to get their prescriptions, get their hair cut, buy new tires for their car, eat dunkin donuts, and pick up some toilet paper all without walking more than a few yards.
Anyone who has seen Wall-E knows where we're heading.
Whats wrong with being able to get everything at one location and for a cheap price?
The worst I have is people calling my work and thinking we are a store because our name is similiar to a store. One night I got three calls from the same person asking if we sold shirts between 2 and 3 in the morning.
I believe there is also a "Law enforcement" exception clause in the sex toy ban. I'm still not sure how that would work.
Gives a whole new ambience to the phrase "You have the right to remain silent..."
I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.
A long time ago, after Texas broke away from Mexico but BEFORE it became a U.S. state, it was an independent nation. Look it up, it's in the history books. It's a fascinating piece of history.
And I'm all for letting it go back to being it's own country. Then New Mexico seals it's border with it and charges all of the damnTexans stranded here an exorbitant amount to be let out!
What bugs me though, is that many people seem to be under the impression that hotel=convenience store. I get random people who aren't guests, all the time coming in trying to buy stuff.
Cigarettes is the most common request, and when I tell them they have to go 3 bloocks to the 7/11, it's cat-butt face, every single time. Look, it's 4am on a week night, if you're that desparate for smokes, 3 blocks shouldn't be that big a deal. Most then ask me to call them a cab.
I'm also not a coffee shop, nor an internet cafe, especially if you aren't even staying here.
I've had multiple people come in asking to buy umbrellas and jackets (wtf? Who goes to a hotel to buy a jacket? One time I actually did sell someone a sweater that had been in the lost and found for about 4 months. I made 5 bucks.)
I've had several non-guests come in looking for free 24-hour computer tech support, one guy who wanted to buy a new inkjet cartridge for his printer, and a woman who wanted to rent our photo copier. Not that she just wanted to make a few copies, she actually expected us to rent her our photocopier for a month, and deliver it to her home business.
I say "hola", I'm in western MA, and the only "non-white" in my background is some Cherokee waaaaaayyyy back. I think Spain and Portugal are the only European countries not found in my family tree. I'm just strange. Drives my OC aunt crazy(-ier).
I know I get funny looks sometimes. I'm a white girl, and on any given day, I'm using a variation on Spanglish. I sound like a chola when I'm tired, the speech pattern just takes over. But, given the fact that I was born and raised in southern NM and that's what I grew up hearing.... I've actually had people in ABQ ask me if I'm from the South Valley. Yes, yes I am, the Mesilla Valley.
Mexican food stores supposedly have sugared Coke, but I've not looked into it, partly because I'd feel out of place in them, being terminally northern European as I am.
They use cane sugar. Which is what makes it too damn sweet for me.
And now I'm missing the Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry Chocolate.
Three years ago, I got some Coke with lime in UK. I have only ever seen it here in diet and I don't drink diet anything. You would think with lime, it'd be all over the southwest US!
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