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WOT RANT
I have a new rant from the trip home. I was in customs in Calgary.
You have to go back through the US's metal detectors and such even
though it was a connection and you have arleady done this crap once.
I get up there and put my work computer in one bin and the toshiba
libretto in the other bin. The Libretto was in a neoprene sleeve and
I pulled it out and set the sleeve flat next to it, both are small
enough to comfortably fit without touching each other. The lady grabs
my laptop bag and says Do you have a laptop in here?
I have two friggin bins in front of me with a laptop in each and she's
asking me if there's a laptop in my backpack. No Ma'am my laptops are
already right here, pointing down to the bins. She looks at me and
says "your laptop is not in the bag right?"
I finally convince her that I wasn't hiding a 3rd laptop in the
backpack nor the crack of my ass, and she points to the Libretto and
asks "is that a portable DVD Player?"
No Ma'am that is a laptop. So she goes and gets a third bin and tells
me to put the Libretto in the 3rd bin. Apparently it must go through
with nothing else in the bin because obviously 9/11 was perpatrated by
someone with a laptop and neoprene sleeve.
Lets hear it for attention to detail. I sleep better at night.
On 9/14/07, LEF <rocco16@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry I'm late on this; I've been in Alberta for the last week, goose
> hunting. (cannot believe how friendly the Canucks are...each and every one
> I talked to was like a long-lost brother/sister)
>
> You went against the grain, Chris. The fast-food franchises have one strong
> suit: consistency. The same food from Naples to Edmonton. Order the #14
> anyplace in the world and it will be the exact same, tissue-wrapped morsel.
>
> BUT....ask for anything other than the standard issue and you are
> short-circuiting the entire system around which these things were designed.
> Expect unpleasant ramifications.....
>
> Sorry to hear of your plight, I can imagine the frustration you were
> feeling.
>
> larry
> sandiego16v
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:47:17 AM
> Subject: WOT RANT
>
> I really hate stupid people. Or at least the ones that are dumber
> than me... go ahead fire away.
>
> So here I sit in the North Concourse of Seatac airport waiting to go
> to sunny Saskatoon, and I thinks to meself that I would like to get
> something to eat now as Customs loves to hang out with me and accuse
> me of stealing jobs. Ok fair enough, NAFTA says I can go up, but I
> wholeheartedly agree with Customs. We need a person in Canada and
> then I don't have to fly sooo much. I like it once I get there I just
> despise the getting there part.
>
> So I go to Burger King... I stand in line for 15 minutes and I get to
> the register and the lady that JUST helped someone tells me that I
> have to go to the end of the OTHER line because she doesn't have
> change. Ok humanitarian that I am, I offer a solution. "I can pay
> with a credit card." No sir I can't take a credit card because I
> don't have change.
>
> You gotta be shittin' me I thinks.
>
> So I go to the end of the other line despite the numerous offers to
> let me from other appalled passengers. I get up front and her friend
> tells me in broken english that she is always like that I shouldn't
> take it personally.
>
> Well shit that makes it ok then. How dare I get pissed off, shitty
> customer service is ok as long as it's consistant.
>
> So I order a couple croissantwich cause I am a fat fucker with NO EGG.
> Pretty simple. Sausage and 1.6 slices of bacon, have it my fucking
> way.
>
> I wait another 10 minutes get my food and go sit. Open it up and
> guess what? Egg and one of the two ordered pork byproducts. So I go
> back up and pretty much throw the thing on the counter.
>
> This is wrong. I would like to have a double croissantwich with no egg.
>
> I am sorry sir, right away. Another good 5 minutes. She hands it to
> me and I can see through the wrapper that something yellow is plaster
> to the wax paper. Egg. I dispise eggs almost as much as Burger King
> employees.
>
> I threw it over the counter. IT'S WRONG, TRY AGAIN.
>
> What do you want then?!? Double blah blah blah NO EGG.
>
> So she repeats back. Double Croissantwich with Egg and Bacon? NO
> BACON AND SAUSAGE NO EGG.
>
> Double Croissantwich with Sausage and Egg?
>
> I completely lost it at this point and started yelling. FOR THE
> HEARING IMPARED I WANT A FRIGGIN CROISANT WITH BACON AND SAUSAGE
> NOTHING ELSE NO EGG.
>
> Why do I have to damn near get arrested to get it my way?
>
>
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