Foot-long hot dogs

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (kcmjester) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:36:26 PST

That's what she said.

Oh. She did.

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (darlingal) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:55:51 PST

I'd like a good foot long.

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (kcmjester) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:17:26 PST

Blzbub667 wrote:
Check it again later - when we run credit cards at the restaurant - it is pre-authorized for a certain amount and we have the anal-retentive types call and bitch and think they have been robbed. When the closed out bill hits their credit card the real amount of the charge is shown.

You sir, are correct. I'm an anal-retentive type. But luckily, I didn't call.

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (incrediblegobstopper) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:13:10 PST

So the church ladies aren't behind it?

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (Blzbub667) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:46:47 PST

Check it again later - when we run credit cards at the restaurant - it is pre-authorized for a certain amount and we have the anal-retentive types call and bitch and think they have been robbed. When the closed out bill hits their credit card the real amount of the charge is shown.

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (incrediblegobstopper) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:13:19 PST

My favorite band is from Ireland (The Saw Doctors), and I've seen them in concert several times and have a DVD of theirs that includes interviews.

Other than them saying "cares" and "stares" (etc) instead of "cars" and "stars" (which can be figured out by context), I have no problems understanding them.

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (lordoftheprance) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:49:24 PST

I don't get how people can't understand Irish accents. It pisses me off when History and Discovery channel shows put on subtitles when an Irish, Scottish, or English person is speaking. And the asshole pretentious ads on BBC America telling us to turn on closed captioning so we can understand it. Yeah, it's a different country, but they're still speaking fucking English and it's no different from going to a different US geographical area and dealing with the local accent.

I was with a group of people at a restaurant once, one Irish and one Scottish and the Scot asked for no tomato on his hamburger. The waitress couldn't understand it. Now, this was in Missouri, so I can understand her lack of awareness that other countries exist, but it was in St. Louis, not some podunk farm town. And if nothing else, she should have figured out what "to-mah-to" was from the context of the conversation since he was ordering a freaking hamburger that came...

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (tadpolelives) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:27:24 PST

yep, I'd call the cc company, AND the restaurant. no, wait, I'd GO to the restaurant, with my copy of the slip in hand, showing the line through the tip section, and a print out of the actual charge showing the extra $8.00.

I wouldn't bother explaining the foot long story, unless the waitress herself brings it up. I would just state the facts: you left a cash tip, and explicitly indicated on the slip that no tip should be added, and the waitress either made an error or deliberately stole the $8.00 from you.

that kind of shit shouldn't be allowed to go on. misunderstanding or not. and it really wasn't a big deal, IMO, what your brother said. I think more damage would have been done if the server was a guy, to be honest! then it might have been misconstrued as a come on or something!

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (incrediblegobstopper) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:27:15 PST

43% tip. Not bad.

I would probably call the restaurant and bitch. I don't think I'd bother with the bank over the $8.00. Hopefully the manager of the restaurant will make it right with you somehow.

Re: Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (guyrhymeswithwee) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:43:54 PST

jester...i'd call the bank and the restaurant.... it doesn't matter that the misunderstanding happened...
its fraud/stealing whatever they call it these days.... and her employer should know the y have a dishonest employee....

i lknow i always leave the tip in cash when i use my card.... maybe i'm getting ripped off too

Foot-long hot dogs

feeds@yuku.com (kcmjester) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:32:41 PST

Long story...

My brother and his family from Ireland are staying with me for the week. Last night, my brother, my two nephews and myself went out to dinner at a local diner while his wife and daughters were shopping. My seven year old nephew loves American hot dogs. He said that the hot dogs in Ireland are shite. He heard that we have foot-long hot dogs in America and couldn't wait to get one and has been talking about it for weeks.

The diner did not have foot-long hot dogs, but had a hot dog meal on the kids' menu. We told him it wasn't a foot-long, but he wanted us to ask any way. When the waitress came to take our order, my brother ordered the hot dog meal for my nephew, who asked the waitress if it was a foot long. With his Irish accent, she did not understand him. My brother wanted to appease him and was seeking to have the waitress help him in this endeavor. He looked at her (she was late teens/early twenties and attractive) winked and...