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  • #16
    Where I used to live, 15 miles to get to a decent place to eat wasn't uncommon. Outside of the mall and other fast-food places, it wasn't hard to take in that someone would have to drive a good 20-35 minutes to get something good to eat.

    So if anyone wants to complain about drive time, let me at them. Usually it takes a minute or less for a customer to understand that I really just don't give a damn about length of driving.
    Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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    • #17
      Dave, where do all your crazy-ass customers come from?

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      • #18
        Quoth AccountingDrone View Post
        hell, we used to drive from Norfolk VA to just near Williamsburg to get BBQ at this little shack .... I really miss that bbq =( up north they dont understand good bbq

        Oooh where? I'll be down that way next week to see my mom....I LOVE BBQ!

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        • #19
          Mmmmm BBQ I miss Texas

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          • #20
            Quoth vacation_rentals_suck View Post

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            • #21
              What a moron. If she wanted that kind of service she should've stayed at a 4 star hotel. Lazy moron.
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              • #22
                Quoth Reyneth View Post
                Sounds like someone thought they were in a 4-star hotel with room service, not a rental house!

                If 15 miles was too far, I guess they really didn't want good local BBQ, they just wanted a reason to complain.
                I am sorry but room service <> good BBQ anyway you slice smoke or grill it. She should be happy there was a good BBQ place 15 miles away.
                Tamezin

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                • #23
                  Quoth smileyeagle1021 View Post
                  slight nitpick... BBQ and grilling are two different things... BBQ is a slow relatively cool cook while grilling is a very fast hot cook.
                  You are correct, if you MUST get technical about it.

                  In local parlance, however, the BBQ is the thing that you grill on, and 'grilling' means everything from burgers to steaks, temperature adjusted to suit the result you wish to achieve.

                  And I just used the word 'parlance' to describe the version of English spoken in this part of Nova Scotia. Where the Latin vulgate word for copulation is used as the most common adjective.

                  *sigh*

                  Now I want BBQ.
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                  • #24
                    I wouldn't take a strangers advice on good BBQ anyway. You might like Kansas City style or something. Memphis all the way!

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                    • #25
                      Quoth Barracuda View Post
                      What did she expect you to do? Build a transporter and BEAM them to the ribs place?
                      It's like someone expecting you to call a cab for them when you don't have a phone. "What should I do? Scream, and pray that Dispatch can hear me?"
                      Either that or build a BBQ place across the street so they wouldn't have to travel so far.

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                      • #26
                        Quoth Catwoman2965 View Post
                        Oooh where? I'll be down that way next week to see my mom....I LOVE BBQ!
                        um, from the pottery factory, get back on 64 headed back to norfolk, ignore the next exit south on 64, it goes to the bus entrance of williamsburg and take the next exit. There is a road paralleling 64 on the west, follow it south until the place pops up on the right. No idea what the name is, or if it is still there. This was 20 years ago. It was a low shack painted barn red with a bbq pit in back and a few picnic tables out front.

                        I would also kill for some no shit for real pork cracklings from 21st street farm fresh's meat department. they used to repackage ones from smithfield ham company. the unseasoned ones =(
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                        • #27
                          I was thinking, vacation rentals suck, on how people come off very harshy with you on a high average. Where I work we are taught to basically never say "no", and I mean the word "no". There are many ways to say it without ever saying it. People seem to be more smoothed over with a comment like, "Oh I am sure sorry but that sure is the closest BBQ place to where you are staying."

                          Eh, it's an idea. LOL Not saying all of them will cease...God knows...
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                          • #28
                            Quoth thehippie777 View Post
                            People seem to be more smoothed over with a comment like, "Oh I am sure sorry but that sure is the closest BBQ place to where you are staying."
                            That's actually true. Even if you don't actually care about whatever petty shit they're moaning about, pretending to care has a way of getting all but the most determined whiners out your face without actually giving them what they want.

                            It also leaves them unsatifisfied because they probably had a good rant all built up inside them and your being sympathetic (by faking it) and practical takes the wind right out of their sails. It's hilarious.

                            I actually learned that technique when somebody used it on me.
                            The best karma is letting a jerk bash himself senseless on the wall of your polite indifference.

                            The stupid is strong with this one.

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                            • #29
                              Quoth AccountingDrone View Post
                              I would also kill for some no shit for real pork cracklings from 21st street farm fresh's meat department.(
                              Dammit, now you've reminded me of my desire to try this stuff just once... now I'm hungry... ROAD TRIP!
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                              • #30
                                Quoth AccountingDrone View Post
                                um, from the pottery factory, get back on 64 headed back to norfolk, ignore the next exit south on 64, it goes to the bus entrance of williamsburg and take the next exit. There is a road paralleling 64 on the west, follow it south until the place pops up on the right. No idea what the name is, or if it is still there. This was 20 years ago. It was a low shack painted barn red with a bbq pit in back and a few picnic tables out front.

                                I would also kill for some no shit for real pork cracklings from 21st street farm fresh's meat department. they used to repackage ones from smithfield ham company. the unseasoned ones =(
                                Got it, Pierces Pit BBQ - been there, and there's another one in Toano, a bit further up 60 - Hog Wild....their stuff is AWESOME! Hoping to get some while I'm down there!

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