>   Now, I'm craving a root beer float. :P

At my A&W, we didn't have separate ice crean for tge floats, we just poured in
a half cup of unflavored milkshake mix (semi-liquid ice crean, essentially.)

Now they have frozemn pre-cut oblong portions of hard ice cream.  Umm, no. .
it's suposed to be a ball so the root beer hits all sides of it, crteating a
milky root beer-y foam that makes it so good!

 >   If you're wondering why I'm up at this hour, I was having leg
 > cramps (not to mention nature called). So, I figured I'd take an
 > Ibuprofen, and worked at the computer until I could feel it kicking
 > in.

I do t hat when my kidney stones act up & Nature hollers (she never merely
calls any more *sigh*)

 >   When I worked at Burger King for 5 years over 40 years ago (I had
 > done every position, including in management for a time), my favorite
 > one was cashier...and the managers trusted me. One time, there was a
 > stretch of a lot of cash shortages, and the franchise owner thought
 > there might be some embezzlement going on. So, he set up a polygraph
 > test for the employees...but they had to sign a statement saying they
 > weren't being forced to take it. Yet, if they refused, they were fired;
 > sounds like coercion (sp?) to me.

It's along the linmes of all 3 siblings being locked in a room together until
one admits to breaking the lamp. (typically it's a bully fest on forcing one to
admit to it, to get all free)

In my family, it was all 3 of us denying it to eaxchy other & demanding the
guilty person fess up (even the guilty one was saying the same demands to all);
listening to us talk would not identify the perp.

My bosds would charge us the cost ofg overages & underages.

I complained wshen he took $1 out of my tipos because I was over $1; he said,
"if there's more in the drawer than we sold, you stole $1 from one of my
custyomers, & I need it handy in case they ask for it back."

I accepted that, knowing it was likely a $1 tip I forgot to separate out.

Now this is illegal here in BC.

 >   If they let me count the drawer at the start of the shift, and do
 > every transaction, then I'd take responsibility for it. But, it never
 > occured to me that one of the managers was possibly dipping into the
 > till. Several cash shortages resulted, and I got put on a 2 week
 > suspension without pay. Well, several days in, I showed up to get
 > what paycheck I had, and the franchise owner asked where I had been.
 > I replied "2 week suspension for cash shortages...your directive".
 > He replied "Consider it cancelled -- I need you". That spoke volumes
 > to me, as he thought so highly of my character.

Yup, I'm not takling flak for a shared money drawer. Because I love
numbers/math & I make them do their job accurately, always. I set new standards
& records for accuracy.

I learned a lot from a retired bank teller (had done it 40 years) whom I worked
with at the casino, in t he cash cage.  We were the first one in many years to
cash out 100% balanced (not even one 50c chip unaccounted for); darn tootin' I
kept her teachings in mind ever after!

Always establish accuracy in counting systems & adhere to them 100% every time,
without slippage or failure of any kind.

I like to know where every penny is, because even a lousy 1c is indicative of
an error & one error could mean others.

OCSD is an asset; I don't have it, soi I have to fake ity, just when working
with money.

I makle my bank teklers count out my cash with all heads facing one way.

My ex-teller coworker said in the '50s if they had even one bill no aligned in
their drawer, it was a $5 fine (lots of money for a front line worker in the
'50s you mayt recall?)

 >   But, back to cashier, we'd get some "live ones"...who were "not
 > the brightest light in the fixture", or "the sharpest knife in the
 > drawer".

I called those "entertainment" :D 

 > 1) One guy wanted a Whopper Junior with cheese, just ketchup only.
 > I told him "I'll sell you a cheeseburger with ketchup only instead.
 > It's the same thing, but cheaper". He was adamant..."No, I want
 > the Whopper Junior with cheese just ketchup only". So, I said "As
 > you wish". Burger King has 2 sizes of their burgers...the Whopper,
 > and the smaller version. I still remember one of their original
 > commercials and slogans from 50 years ago.

I did that, too -- save them money. If they asked for a competotor's item, I
pointed out they were at the wrong place, but can I suggest some tghing similar
rtghatr'll be even better? (e.g. a Teen Burger always kills a Whopper for real
food taste & a thicker more flavorful meat patty(or 2 or 3)

Most of these came back again, asking for whatever I gave them last time. I'd
ask, "Want to try the double this time, if you're extra hungry from a busy
day?"; I usualluy got my upsale. Because I knew when to ask, whbn to pushj, &
when t o back off & not be annoying.

I refused to reply to a request for a soda with, "Will. that be a large?"
because that's stupid to assume most people want a large, or can be talked into
a bigger one just because you ask it that way."; I find it borderline offensive
when done to me (implying I'm stupid & gullible)

I might ask, "Will that be a small or medium?" on non-super hot days, on which
I'd include large as an option.

When people complained we don't have ice (we keep our syrup & soda water cold
enough) I explain this & say if they're unhappy with the temperature half way
through, I'll replace it with a free one.

 > 2) We'd have folks who would order sexually oriented items, and 
 > I told them "the red light district is downtown". And, that had
 > a double meaning...for all the stoplights, and where "the world's
 > oldest profession" took place.

I had one guy who kept trying to order the one waitress; I'd repeat his tinged
requests to her cus she'd just laugh & rtespond in kind, which I'd relay.

I think they eventually got married.

 > 3) We'd have folks who would order items from another restaurant.
 > I'd say "this is Burger King". Then, I'd tell them that restaurant
 > is located down the street.

I knew the town well & could direct people anywhere, but I'd make them order
some thing first! *LOL*

 >  GP> I was good at my job (all the jobs, as often I was the only one taking
 >  GP> orders, cookinfg, & serving, being as teej lasbour is so hit & miss
 >  GP> (brokenm fingernail on Monday -- off work for the week, at least! Don't
 >  GP> ell anybodyt you won't be there, of course -- let that be a surprise as
 >  GP> a rush comers in! *LOL*)

 >   Most folks nowadays want to work from 12 to 1, take an hour off for
 > lunch, and get a full check. Never mind paying folks more to stay home,
 > than to come to work...no wonder there's a labor shortage.

Yup, my buddy, a customer from the A&W, owned an excavation/backhome company, &
had a half dozen machines plus flatbed ofor transporting to a job, told m e of
the time the big city next door hireds him as outsourcing to help with a street
/pipe job; giving him several sheets of the part of the job he was to do
(excavate this wide this deep, at these locations on these streets. . .)

He arrived at 7:00 (due at 8) & found nobody there. He lkmew he was early, so
kicked bacxk waiting for 390 minutes, then decided the hell with it & started
the job, as he was bored; he had it all done by 9 or 10.  Still none of the
city boys had arrived.  They file in after noon somet ime anmd the gf orenman
lit right into my buddy for doing what they had planned on stretching out for 3
weeks of union weage work, in one morning.  Told him they'd blackball him from
getting city contracts again.  My buddy laughed, told them the direction in
which to F (that direction being 'off')

Our taxdollars at work, yup! *sigh*

My biddy had plent of work; he had to shuffle jobs to do this one, as a favour
to the city manager who requested him.

Union or not, I don't care, but do the job you agreed to do at the agreed upon
wage for the agreed upon hours(schedule).

I do t his, normally for non-union comp[anies.  One year the city workers were
on stri8ke for many weeks, ending up with a 5% raise soplit overt he next 3
years. At the same time, I'd been at my job for 2 months & my boss offered me a
20% raise all at once (wasn't my last spontaneously offered raise either)

I've never had to ask for a raise in my life because I give good value, & my
bosses, not wanting me to be headhunted, offer me regular raises.

 >   This may be "a borderline no-no", but one Bible verse notes "if a man
 > will not work, he shall not eat". Now, for those who have a physical
 > disability that prevents them from working a regular job (especially at
 > 40 hours per week), that does not apply. It applies to the lazy, who are
 > fully able to work, but choose not to.

Yup it's not worded, "If you do not work, you shall not eat"; it means if you
can, but refuse, then suffer the natural result. Nade perfect sense to the
agrian culture he was addressing, as if you don't go out & pick some potatoes &
wheat, you'll not have spuds & bread for dinner.

 >   I was born and raised that "the man is the breadwinner, to provide
 > for the family". But, one day, my body basically said "you're not going
 > to do this anymore". And, they keep finding stuff wrong with me...most
 > recently, atrial flutter. The medication, and cutting out caffeine with
 > iced tea, candy, chocolate, etc., has stabilized the heart rate and the
 > blood pressure...but it has aggravated the migraines.

That was my example, too, but in the above example Iu'd say the man & wife were
partners -- he went out to work9or hunt), bringing home some meat & paying for
the hometyhey lived in, & she prepared the spuds, bread, & cooked meat for them
both & their kids.

Mariage was never top-down -- it's a partnership of equals, with God above
both.

People have long misunderstood the teaching of Paul: Wives submit to your
husbands. . . by ignoring the second half (& husbands love your wives as Christ
loved the church); the original Greek uses "advice tone" for the first half,
but the secoind is a hard commandment.

Women, it is good that you vote on issues with your husband, & good when you
grant him the tiebreaker vote when needed.

Men, you MUST sacrifice your entire life (time, energy, even life itself, if
required) for your wife.

Big difference in meaning from how tradition only quotes that first half.

 >   There was even a pinball machine with that. However, my favorite pinball
 > machines were Paragon, Space Invaders, Silverball Mania, The Black Knight,
 > Xenon, Fire Power, and others I can't recall. The main brands were Bally,
 > Williams, and Gottlieb (those are the only ones I can remember). No telling
 > how many quarters I dropped in the college game room 40 years ago. I was
 > never much for video games, though. I even played one called "Lost World
 > Pinball" on the comnputer awhile back. I used to have Train Simulators on
 > the computer...first Microsoft Train Simulator, then Auran Trainz. But, I
 > would run them in "Silver Streak Mode"...just using it to "explore the
 > route", and if I got bored, move it up to notch 8, and ram it into the
 > dead-end bumper at the station. 

I only played a few ingball machines, as they were alreay on the wane in my
gfenerations. in my pre teens they had only pinball at our local arcade (above
the bowling alley); then, about age 13 a New Thing appeared! I forget which
game it was, likely space invaders.

I got hooked on plaing lots of video games in my teens --0 I weas good at any
where there's a pattern I coluld identify & crack. On thwe old Atari, I could
play until bladder demandfed I stop , mamy games: Asteroids, Donkey Kong,
Pacman, Space Invaders, Defenders(?), & others,. My fave arcade one was Galaga
-- I loved getting over 900,000 then intentionally dying so I don't flip the
score back to zero, them put my initials in to say I was supreme commander on
this game!  Eventually others got good & I had to push closer to a million, & h
ope I didn't go over, else I'd be stuck racking up another 999,000 before I
could hit the head. . . or spend time accepting female adulation. . .

I was at Disney in '83, I think it was, & in the Sisneyland Hortel they had the
biggewsrt arcadre I'd ever seen.  Minimum of 20 of any game, & over 40 Galagas!

I waited in line for one, only to see all ten high scores were over 999,000.
Little punk from Canada kept one low point ship alive so I could get closest to
1M points before dying & entering my initials.

Oh, that was a red letter day for this little punk from a smaller town!

Now I prefer word games, like crosswords & word scrambles(on my phone); just
rediscovering BBSing, but only really playing LORD2, & occasional LORD. &
trivia sometimes--I'm more about the messaging--always have been. nmot much
local ghoing on, for he boards I call. . . but none but one are local to me
anyway.. . .



 >  GP> My apology, I thoght West was south of Virginia itself. Or is this one
 >  GP> of those vagaries of the civil war era & politics?

 >   The Mason-Dixon line is the difference between "You All" and "Youz Guys". 


 >  GP> Yeah, I've noticed that, but I've always been a rebel, so I even went
 >  GP> on Facebook, prior to our big national election this past Monday, &
 >  GP> stated my opinions on all 5 parties running.  My choice is NOT the
 >  GP> groupthink's favourite, or even allowable one. . .

 >   Former comedian Bill Cosby noted about rebels with "kids wearing their
 > pants on backwards". Now, they wear them below their hips, showing their
 > underwear -- and that's another kettle of fish .

 >  GP> I figure if I convinced even ONE voter not to vote for the incumbent,
 >  GP> I'd have succeeded (in changing nothing; we just spent $600M on a
 >  GP> pre-emptive early plague times election that changed absolutely
 >  GP> nothing!)

 >   Except enhanced the politicians pockets. For all the money that's spent
 > with the local, state, congressional, and presidential elections...with 
 > ads for radio, TV, print, online, etc. -- as well as things like signs,
 > bumper stickers, T-shirts, etc. -- we'd have enough to pay off the national
 > debt.

 >  GP> I don't care what people call themselves, or if they play dressup with
 >  GP> clothes or surgery to be a different sex, in appearance; I'll call you
 >  GP> he or she,. whatebver you prefer, but I'm well-read in my native
 >  GP> language & I refuse to use a plural pronoun to refer to a singular
 >  GP> human.

 >   I joke that "square dancers do it on the floor, in groups of eight, with
 > no sex, in all positions". Now, to a non-square dancer, it sounds kinky.
 > But, when you dance what's known as "Dance By Definition" (DBD) or at the
 > Advanced or Challenge levels, you're not a male or female...but the end,
 > center, point, etc. of a particular formation. I refer to this as "a quick
 > and dirty sex change". 

 >   At a national singles dance in Nashville back in 1997, I was dancing to
 > national female caller, Dee Dee Dougherty-Lottie. She could yodel the paint
 > off the side of a barn, but her pants were so tight on her, that it looked
 > like she was melted and poured into them...and I thought if she farted, she
 > would blow her britches off!!

 >   Well, with one "tip", I basically "became a girl"...and with knowing 
 > both parts, I just kept going, but I turned my cap on my head, to backwards.
 > She stopped the music, and said to me "I've got enough trouble without you
 > giving me hell". Everyone roared in laughter. 

 >  GP> "just 'you'; I'd rather you talk TO me, not ABOUT me!"

 >   Sounds opposite to the song done by Toby Keith. 

 >  GP> everyone, I have an opinion & a rectal orifice & I know how to use
 >  GP> both.

 >   And, sometimes, the opinion and RO both stink. :P

 >  GP> A political argument not involving only the principals involved in an
 >  GP> election is as meaningful to real life as is a farting contest between
 >  GP> the same two people!

 >   Only if you choose between varieties of baked beans.  Believe it or
 > not,  a friend's dachshund prefers Bush's Baked Beans, but refuses the
 > generic
 > store brand. I guess it wasn't sweet enough for him, but I wouldn't want the
 > dog dropping green haze methane bombs. :P

 >  GP> I want to see a political debate operate as we used to do debate
 >  GP> originally, in grade school!

 >   Debate is what you put on Defishhook -- hmmm...possible tagline?? 

 > Daryl

 > ... Lead me not into temptation -- I'll find my own way.
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