beth_parker's Blog

Y3Y3, you left out,
DMV/MVA employees.
And 100 percent agreement with your whole list, ESPECIALLY number 4

Jadeddude...property value decrease but property taxes increase? Wow!

I'm not suprised about the cable company and the airline company!

That's why I don't blame that old lady for brining a hammer to the cable office! I don't think anyone blamed her. They are awful.

I would have to say my consumer complaint is against the fast food industry. The service can be lousy and many of the workers have this attitude that my presence coming into that establishment is a major inconvenience.

Today I was at Sam's and purchased a tomato plant and a pepper plant...both already loaded with tomatoes and peppers. I searched the plant and pot of the pepper plant, but no bar code. I thought the huge grouping of both "would most likely" have the same price, so I took both inside to pay. A woman turned the pepper pot and said, "There's no bar code." Interested in how she might handle this, I said, "I know." She tried to stare me down. I stared back. She repeated, "There's no price on this." I repeated, "I know." We studied each other. I broke first, by saying, "Maybe you'd better call the manager to ask the price." She stared at me. She repeated, "There is no price on this plant. You should go get another with a price on it." I said, "Nope, can't do. There isn't another like it...the others are jalapeno plants and I don't want a jalapeno plant." She stared at me. I pointed at my pepper plant, and said, "I want THIS pepper plant." Finally, she said, "Well, GUESS at the price." My son who had been silent said, "Well, the jalapenos are $15.88 for the large ones." The woman rung up $15.88. The sales clerk hated me. I didn't care...I ALWAYS walk away from an unmarked item...but now THIS time.

The thing that irritates me most are crying and noisy kids in a restaurant...the little boogers ALWAYS find me..the entire family is ALWAYS seated at a table beside me, and, little Johnny or Mary proceeds to scream while mommie and daddy seem to be deaf to the screaming. In the meantime, I have ordered a meal which I am swallowing in gulps and am filled with abject misery. I arrive home with indigestion and wish I had had the courage to tell the idiot parents that they are inconsiderate twits for bringing their rotten kid(s) to a restaurant and allowing them to ruin everyone's meal. When my son was small I established rules of behavior...it was simple. If you misbehave, you will be removed from the restaurant, store or shop...and you will never set foot in one until you are old enough to drive yourself there. I was lucky...When my son was 4 I caught him staring at a screamer in the grocery store. He turned, walked up to me and asked what was wrong with "that kid." I said, "Well he is having a tantrum. What do you think I would do if you behaved like that?" He said, "Oh..I'd be dead!" I turned so that he could not see my smile. It was humorous that he considered a screaming tantrum in a store grounds for such big time trouble. He was always a little gentleman. Only once in a restaurant, at age 2, did he leave his chair to lean his back over the seat of the chair, speaking to himself, said, "Help, I can git up...Then..git...up!" I think he had been studying the commercial on TV. He understood my "look" whereupon he climbed back into his chair and became the perfect gent

An incident came to mind as I read foxfan333. Back about 8 years ago I sat in a McDonald's drive thru line behind a car with two elderly men. The driver placed his order...loud and clear in english. A woman's voice thick with an Indian accent at the other end of the speaker system cut him off and began to repeat an order he had NOT placed. The elderly man said, "No...no.." and repeated his order. The woman, again, cut him off in mid order, repeating an incorrect order. Beginning to tire of the repetition, the elderly man raised his voice and said, "No. Please do not say anything until I finish with my order." He proceeded to place his order and was, again, cut off. Finally, the elderly man said, "Shut the F*%k up and let me place my order, PLEASE!" Whereupon the woman said, "You will not be served..get out of line right now." I thought the elderly man was going to have a heart attack. He was screaming at the woman by this time and did leave the line. I left the line as well, went home and called the McDonalds and filed a complaint. THEN I called the national headquarters and filed a complaint about this employee who was waaaaaay out of line to the elderly gentlemen. If I could hear him loud and clear, there was no excuse for the employee NOT to hear him. I have not been back to that McDonalds since...some things are just a matter of principle.

Hispanics who believe they are a "race" of people. They are a cultural heritage, races are much better defined by physical characteristics NOT language and culture!

Maybe that is why there are White Hispanics and Black Hispanics? Because they are confused about their roots and need to be boosted by other races to help them define themselves?

Makes me wonder, after all these years...

Health insurers who find any excuse to deny coverage for people who are too misinformed to assert their rights. It's not that the companies are careless---these insurers behave badly on purpose. For profit.