Apr 10 2006
best buy’s bling
solving one of my shopping cunundrums. How did I resist it’s sparkliness? Impenetrable packaging helped…
2 of your thoughts on best buy’s bling
Apr 10 2006
confrontational server*
Wendy: “a pint of Bass please“server: “we don’t have any Bass“Wendy: “it’s on your menu?”
server: “that Bass is in a bottle, it isn’t draught“ (Wendy winces at the tautology)
Wendy: “then I’ll have Bass from a bottle please’ (looks at server over the top of her glasses while toying with asking why Bass in a bottle is not Bass)
This has happened 2 times in different places. I suspect that quantities are different for draught and bottled beers. My specifying a pint implied draught. I didnt know this.
* The word server is used because:
- it is gender neutral.
- it provides potential for ironic euphamisms based on computing vernacular.
- the term ‘wait staff’, though gender neutral, is actually an instruction given to a rod used to aid walking.
- ‘wait staff’ doesnt afford opportunities for silly comparisons with computers.
- sounds similar to the retiring word - ’servant’
2 of your thoughts on confrontational server*
