RBCA said:Pete. (l33t FS) said:As the other half of "we" in this story, I feel obligated to point out that this happened in 1998, over 25 years ago, and Pete is still crabby about it.
Hey, I still have one particular pizza that I complain about, 38 years later and 900 miles away.
stuart in mn said:1) It asks if I want to use their 'app'. No, I don't, and stop asking me.
2) It doesn't have one touch buttons for combo meals. If I want a #4 which is a plain chicken sandwich, fries and a drink I first have to push the sandwich button, scroll down to find the chicken sandwich, click on that, then it says "Add to your order?" Yes, that's why I pushed the button. I then have to go through the same procedure for the fries and drink, and then it finally asks, "Oh, so you want the #4?"
3) Step #2 is dependent on whether the touch screen even recognizes my finger when I try to push on the buttons. My limited experience shows I have to press each button five to ten times before it clicks (if it clicks at all.)
4) It asks me what kind of drink I want. What does it matter, I'm going to walk over to the drink machine and fill up my cup myself.
5) It asks if I want to round my payment up to the next dollar. No, I don't.
6) No, I never use credit or debit for buying fast food, so stop asking me that too.
1) Agreed, that's annoying. We sometimes hit the DQ drive-through and the first thing the nice young lady asks is "Will you be using our app today?" Well, no, if I was, why would I be talking to you?
2) I don't really go to McD's, but are you sure they are not just on a separate screen?
3) I haven't noticed a real issue with that, but I assume it's a maintenance item, and the touch screen needs replacement or calibration.
4) I assume that's for inventory management, but my cynical side tells me it's to just there to stop morons complaining that the kiosk didn't ask them what kind of drink they want.
5) Lots of places have that "round up for charity" thing, even with live cashiers. That's completely independent of the fact that you're ordering on a kiosk.
6) 90% of customers probably do use a credit card. Do you expect it to remember that you personally don't? If so, how? If you want to bring facial recognition or fingerprint scanning into this, that adds a whole new level of nope.
The only kiosk style ordering system we use regularly is at Panera or occasionally Wawa. Both of those systems seem to work pretty well, with minimum inconvenience. And with half a dozen kiosks available at any given time, it's nice not to have to wait to order and then wait again for your food.
In reply to Recon1342 :
I am now in the ER, waiting to see if I do in point of fact have another kidney stone. Miserable Monday, indeed.
Construction next door has been running a giant earth packer for the past week. So about every 30 seconds, there is a low rumble that makes half the building vibrate. It's maddening.
Duke said:6) 90% of customers probably do use a credit card. Do you expect it to remember that you personally don't? If so, how? If you want to bring facial recognition or fingerprint scanning into this, that adds a whole new level of nope.
That's the advantage of ordering at the counter from a human being. I tell them what I want, they tell me how much it costs, I hand them money. When they force me to use a kiosk it's just one more step I have to take in an unwanted experience.
Recon1342 said:In reply to Recon1342 :
I am now in the ER, waiting to see if I do in point of fact have another kidney stone. Miserable Monday, indeed.
Damn, sorry to hear that brother. At least they have good drugs!
Left one item off my curbside pickup grocery order. Realized almost immediately.
Less than a minute after placing the order, it is already too late to cancel or edit. So I will have to go into the store just to get cereal for my wife.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
If I were having a veggie sub, I would definitely want mayo, mustard, oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. If they're not going to ask for all details at the drive-through, I think it probably makes more sense to default to "everything" than "nothing" (where "everything" is all the "normal" condiments). IMHO, YMMV, SNAFU, BBQ, IANAL and didn't stay at a chain hotel last night. "Everything" does not include BBQ sauce.
I'm more bothered by places where the default for the veggie burger is to also have vegan "cheese," "mayo," etc... I don't always want meat, but I am not a vegan, and I do not consider any of the substitutes to be reasonable substitutes (not to say there isn't some vegan food that isn't fine on its own merits).
Anyhow, on an unrelated footnote that's not worth its own post since it's just a follow-up, our stolen/abused/recovered truck just left on a rollback. It's weird not having a truck.
Once our church was doing a Saturday workday and they took Subway orders. I just blurted out to get me a turkey sub.
I got 5 pieces of turkey put inside a 12" long piece of dry sub sandwich bread. Nothing else.
I'm an idiot!
'Subway' is to sandwiches as 'MRE' is to meals.... and that might be throwing a little shade on MREs.
Recon1342 said:In reply to Recon1342 :
I am now in the ER, waiting to see if I do in point of fact have another kidney stone. Miserable Monday, indeed.
Hope all is well and you get all the good drugs
Recon1342 said:In reply to Recon1342 :
I am now in the ER, waiting to see if I do in point of fact have another kidney stone. Miserable Monday, indeed.
How's it going, man?
Dealer transposed a number on value I paid for my car so taxes were about 1000$ less then I expected. I knew it was way to cheap when I walked out but could not figure out why.
Goodbye 1100$, fee's, that I was not expecting to spend but also saved over a year ago. Between this and the AAA increases I swear I am out at least 5k this month in unexpected expenses.
Kinda self checkout-Flying J. I refuse to buy gas there, because I don't want your points, I don't want a car wash, I don't want a coupon for a free banana. I just want to put my credit card in the pump and get some berkeleying gasoline.
It can be a 90 second ordeal. I suppose it might be better now, but I'm with Pete. You wrecked my life 15 years ago, I'm not giving you a second chance.
My wife agreed to coach my younger daughters fall softball team. Last year, she made some comments about not enough moms stepping up to coach and this year she was asked to so she did. I was really happy she's going to coach. We joined a new league this year and the schedule has taken some work. No big deal, we have two weeks until the games start. My wife has been a fire ball of anxiety for two days now over the schedule for no reason at all. And when my wife is anxious, she's sure to take me along for the ride and raise my blood pressure. It's honestly nothing to stress over. There is plenty of time to sort this out. But no, now I'm talking her off the ledge on the phone and being held hostage at home while she agonizes over this.
Duke said:Recon1342 said:In reply to Recon1342 :
I am now in the ER, waiting to see if I do in point of fact have another kidney stone. Miserable Monday, indeed.
How's it going, man?
Two 4mm stones on my right side.
If I don't move too fast, it's OK.
I feel like I got kidney punched by the Hulk...
In reply to Recon1342 :
Owch. Best of luck to you - medical science is just kind of along for the ride here.
A couple weeks ago I got the BMW legal and on the road again. Day two of driving it and the oil cooler popped off and started dragging on the ground. I got it back on more securely and realized that the difference between a $150 BMW part and a $40 failure-causing not-BMW part is a fraction of a mm of plastic production molding flashing. The cooler was on snugly but not perfectly and I almost lost the engine because of it. I used a box cutter to whittle down the excess and put it back together and drove it home. Success!
Happy at my prowess, I was puttin the top back up and the main interior trim piece broke in half and fell down. Why? Because berkeley P3PPY, that's why.
Some interior screws had taken to flight so I traced down similar screws in Lowe's that night and got it going again.
I finally bit the bullet and bought a genuine BMW $100 radiator hose and $150 expansion tank bracket since that's where my two remaining leaks or threats of leaks were coming from. I put it together and all is well.
but this is the rant thread, right?
Taking my middle child for a drive on Sunday we heard a little scraping sound which was reminiscent of the oil cooler assembly that was dragging the other day. With dread in my heart I got out and it's the fog light connector dragging. Relieved, but still with no confidence in the car, we drove on. We had a great evening at the beach, my car self-destruct fears notwithstanding.
Yesterday it was another child's turn to spend the day with daddy. AC went out recently and it was super hot and the drive was demotivating, but we were sitting side by side for the drive and we had fun at the park together.
After we got home I looked out and saw yet another small puddle under the front of the car.
I'm just done. I'm done with noises and worries and things breaking one after another. The juice is officially not worth the squeeze.
Same with the Saab. Too many noises, too many rattles, too much failure.
I don't have the time or motivation to fix things on my own and shop repair costs being what they are, it's time to get a boring appliance. So long, fun car activities, I don't have the bandwidth to handle the lows these days.
Waiting for a car transporter driver who's lost. Overshot our interstate exit by 20 miles, apparently because Google told him to. And that isn't even the hard part about getting here.
What semi driver even puts the truck in gear without double checking the destination, and the route?
In reply to P3PPY :
The HVAC blower fan went out in my Mazda CX-3 recently...$45 for a good quality replacement from Rock Auto and 27 minutes all up to do the R&R job.
Ultimately, it's just a little FWD, automatic $hitbox but man is it ever easy to live with.
OK world, that's enough. It's only Tuesday. How about some good news for the rest of the week.
For the better part of 2 weeks, I've been battling hemorrhoids (asteroids?) I can handle a E36 M3load of paid. But not this. Not anymore.
It's time to see a gastroenterologist. My family doctor checked me out, but I don't expect them to be experts on everything.
It hurts bad enough that I'd rather have kidney stones again.
In reply to Appleseed :
Tucks berkeleying WORK man. Only thing I found that does for me.
What's your address I'll ship you some from Amazon! Because I know you're berkeleying pain!
In reply to Appleseed :
Wifey had a thing last winter and I was the one to be part of a process with some special prescription medication.
Remember when I was 24 years old and easily threw down those "for better or worse" wedding vows? No problem, I'm here for whatever....!!!!
At age 61 she and I found out about the true love for each other.......
In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :
Tucks and creams ain't fixing this. I'm basically growing a human ear inside my ass. But I appreciate the offer.
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