Special Snowflake Stories

[mmswm]

People are quite protective of carts here in the UK. However people don't tend to nick them (as far as I know.) The reason is you have to put £1 in your cart to use it (in most places.) you get it back at the end of your shop when you chain your cart back up.

Not sure if this is an SS.

I worked at a big department store, in there Cafe. We did toasted tea cakes. People would select a cake and bring it up to be toasted.

One lady hands me a cake and I go to cut it. She gets quite snippy with me.
I am "gasp" Handling her tea cake. I think she has not seen my gloves (new set for each customer)
I explain I have gloves on and they are new and this is how we handle all our customers food.
 
No, that is not good enough, they normal use the paper.

We cook the items on a sheet a grease proof paper and yes it is true, If we are busy (or lazy) and we don't have chance to change our gloves or put gloves on at all (trying to get what amounts to lose surgical cloves on damp hands is really very hard), we use the paper to hold the item while we cut it. thus not touching it.
I don't want to argue and don't see any harm in humoring her I offer to do her another one, as she is going on that she doesn't want to get sick with my germs.
 
I did not tell her that all the Cakes had been put in that nice big stack by me, wearing another pair of the cloves.
I just put the cake back on the pile (she had picked it up with tongues) when she was not looking.

Had she just asked me to do her another using the paper as she doesn't like the gloves, I would say she was not an SS. It was the tone she used to talked to me, like I was dirty and stupid.

I've had to ask an employee at a deli to stop and change his gloves, but I was as nice as I could be while getting his attention before he touched my sandwich.


The person in front of me decided she wanted a peanut butter cookie. The register employee asked the employee making my sandwich to put a cookie in the other customer's bag. (Register employee had taken off and thrown away her gloves to take the money).


I quickly said, "I'm deathly allergic to peanuts. Please change your gloves before you touch my food."


The manger who had been cleaning/restocking the drink frigs stepped in and explained this was exactly why they changed gloves between every customer.


She offered me a discount. I told her that it was an honest mistake and no harm done. I'm a regular there now and have told neighbors how careful they are with food safety.


On a later trip a customer questioned them "wasting" gloves by changing the between customers. The employee on duty explained about food allergies and cross contamination. The customer made a "boy it must be hard to live with allergies that bad" comment. (Not a mean comment just a that blows my mind comment)  I spoke up and said, "Restaurants like this one make it easier."

I have a deadly tomato allergy.  In September, I met with a friend at Five Guys for lunch.  Now, I always ask them to change gloves before preparing my food, because I react to even a small amount of juice, like what can be transferred to my food if an employee handled tomatoes on a previous customer's food.  Unfortunately, I was distracted talking to my friend and forgot to ask them to do that.  Sure enough, I had a major reaction involving the paramedics and a hospital visit.  If I ever ran across a place with the policy of always changing gloves, you can be sure I would go there as often as I could.

[RegionMom]

I don't want to argue and don't see any harm in humoring her I offer to do her another one, as she is going on that she doesn't want to get sick with my germs.
 
I did not tell her that all the Cakes had been put in that nice big stack by me, wearing another pair of the cloves.
I just put the cake back on the pile (she had picked it up with tongues) when she was not looking.

Had she just asked me to do her another using the paper as she doesn't like the gloves, I would say she was not an SS. It was the tone she used to talked to me, like I was dirty and stupid.
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I think spell-check should have been picked up with tongs, not tongues!!
picking up a cookie/cake by your tongue is just not right anywhere!
 

[dawnfire]

I don't want to argue and don't see any harm in humoring her I offer to do her another one, as she is going on that she doesn't want to get sick with my germs.
 
I did not tell her that all the Cakes had been put in that nice big stack by me, wearing another pair of the cloves.
I just put the cake back on the pile (she had picked it up with tongues) when she was not looking.

Had she just asked me to do her another using the paper as she doesn't like the gloves, I would say she was not an SS. It was the tone she used to talked to me, like I was dirty and stupid.

I think spell-check should have been picked up with tongs, not tongues!!
picking up a cookie/cake by your tongue is just not right anywhere!
 
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though it would be interesting to see   

[Elfmama]

I don't want to argue and don't see any harm in humoring her I offer to do her another one, as she is going on that she doesn't want to get sick with my germs.
 
I did not tell her that all the Cakes had been put in that nice big stack by me, wearing another pair of the cloves.
I just put the cake back on the pile (she had picked it up with tongues) when she was not looking.

Had she just asked me to do her another using the paper as she doesn't like the gloves, I would say she was not an SS. It was the tone she used to talked to me, like I was dirty and stupid.

I think spell-check should have been picked up with tongs, not tongues!!
picking up a cookie/cake by your tongue is just not right anywhere!
 

though it would be interesting to see   
It would indeed.  I was wondering if the lady was actually a chameleon in disguise.   

Spellcheck doesn't catch properly spelled words used wrongly.  Google "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" which flies right through spellcheck.

[Sedorna]

I think spell-check should have been picked up with tongs, not tongues!!
picking up a cookie/cake by your tongue is just not right anywhere!
 

though it would be interesting to see   
It would indeed.  I was wondering if the lady was actually a chameleon in disguise.   

Spellcheck doesn't catch properly spelled words used wrongly.  Google "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" which flies right through spellcheck.

Or maybe she bought a couple cow tongues to pick up cake. I'm picturing her (even though I don't know what she actually looks like), getting increasingly annoyed as the flopping cow tongues aren't doing a blasted thing in helping her pick up the cake.

[gramma dishes]

Or maybe she bought a couple cow tongues to pick up cake. I'm picturing her (even though I don't know what she actually looks like), getting increasingly annoyed as the flopping cow tongues aren't doing a blasted thing in helping her pick up the cake.

Now that conjures up a mental picture I never want to imagine seeing in a bakery!!   

[laud_shy_girl]

Sorry

I try and be as careful as I can, but got called away before I could proof read it for the Millionth time. I am Dyslexic.
The funny thing was as I was writing that I thought, check which Tong/Tongue to use. guess I forgot 
 
My best friend always says my FB post make her day interesting.

Totally off topic but etiquette hell has helped me loads with my spelling and grammar, because I care what you lot think, I put loads and loads of effort in to my posts. does mean it takes me an our to write a sort post.

Incidentally thats why I am laud_shy_girl when I meant to be loud_shy_girl

[JennJenn68]

Incidentally thats why I am laud_shy_girl when I meant to be loud_shy_girl

And here I thought that you were trying to speak up for shy people everywhere and celebrate them accordingly... I've always thought that your handle was quite clever!

"Loud Shy Girl"--now I'm thinking of the song by Flanders and Swann...  "She's shy, she's shy, she as sensitive as you or I..."

[Jones]

Incidentally thats why I am laud_shy_girl when I meant to be loud_shy_girl

And here I thought that you were trying to speak up for shy people everywhere and celebrate them accordingly... I've always thought that your handle was quite clever!

"Loud Shy Girl"--now I'm thinking of the song by Flanders and Swann...  "She's shy, she's shy, she as sensitive as you or I..."

I just read it with a Scottish accent

That being said, believe me, Laud, your posts are much more coherent/readable than some of the paperwork I am handed on a regular basis to process at work.

[War_Doc]

Let's get back to Special Snowflake stories please.  Take the cake conversation to another topic.

[MissRose]

On my way to church yesterday morning, it was snowing some outside.  One person flew by me with his large pickup truck that was partly covered in snow and the front window and others part of my car got his residue of snow and ice.  Good thing I had been running my wipers due to the snow coming down.

[Giggity]

For a second, Sis considered just handing her the cart and re-doing her shopping,

Why on earth would she even remotely consider rewarding such bad behavior?

[weeblewobble]

For a second, Sis considered just handing her the cart and re-doing her shopping,

Why on earth would she even remotely consider rewarding such bad behavior?

Because she didn't enjoy standing in a public place having a loud confrontation with a stranger.   

[exitzero]

On my way to church yesterday morning, it was snowing some outside.  One person flew by me with his large pickup truck that was partly covered in snow and the front window and others part of my car got his residue of snow and ice.  Good thing I had been running my wipers due to the snow coming down.

A friend of mine stopped at a red light once and notice the woman next to him had only cleared off a little port-hole sized space in the snow on her windshield. How lazy can you get? He was so furious that he hopped out of his car and took the 10 seconds to clear the rest of the windshield she wasn't a menace on the road.

She rolled down the window and giggled and said Thank you!

He snapped back, "I didn't do it for YOU!"

[RebeccainGA]

On my way to church yesterday morning, it was snowing some outside.  One person flew by me with his large pickup truck that was partly covered in snow and the front window and others part of my car got his residue of snow and ice.  Good thing I had been running my wipers due to the snow coming down.

A friend of mine stopped at a red light once and notice the woman next to him had only cleared off a little port-hole sized space in the snow on her windshield. How lazy can you get? He was so furious that he hopped out of his car and took the 10 seconds to clear the rest of the windshield she wasn't a menace on the road.

She rolled down the window and giggled and said Thank you!

He snapped back, "I didn't do it for YOU!"

This is my pet peeve living in the South - people that don't clean their cars off before they leave the house. I'm not talking totally clear, but the big accumulations on the roof, side and back as well as the entire windshield. I've had several near accidents when a big van or SUV with a three inch thick accumulation of (mostly ice) and snow has had it finally come free when the car warmed up and the while sheet came flying towards me, at highway speeds. it's stupid, it's dangerous, and it's lazy. Come on, a broom (they even make special 'snow brooms' for this purpose) and five minutes will get the worst of it, and that's all that's necessary.