OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[FearlessF]

I doubt you could find another cool dude like yourself ...

you are right again as per usual

[FearlessF]

The crosses we bear.....weren't you supposed to be working though???

Dude, I worked from 8am to 12:30pm

[betarhoalphadelta]

Ugh. Will be at the office a little later than planned today, so I figured I'd go down to the cafeteria to buy a crappy overpriced lunch. But their stupid tablet-based ordering system is terrible. You can't order fries. You can order a burger and make it a combo (fries+drink) but you can't even order a burger and then add fries (no drink). And they want to charge me $1.25 just to put cheese on a $13.25 smash burger, plus another $4.50 to make it a combo--that I don't want. I don't need soda. I miss the days when you could actually order from a human. In those days, you could even order garlic fries--if not officially on the menu, they could add it for a small upcharge. Now you only get to order what's on the tablet. 

So... Eff it. Walked away without completing the order.

Guess I'm not eating anything until dinner today. 

[utee94]

Ugh. Will be at the office a little later than planned today, so I figured I'd go down to the cafeteria to buy a crappy overpriced lunch. But their stupid tablet-based ordering system is terrible. You can't order fries. You can order a burger and make it a combo (fries+drink) but you can't even order a burger and then add fries (no drink). And they want to charge me $1.25 just to put cheese on a $13.25 smash burger, plus another $4.50 to make it a combo--that I don't want. I don't need soda. I miss the days when you could actually order from a human. In those days, you could even order garlic fries--if not officially on the menu, they could add it for a small upcharge. Now you only get to order what's on the tablet.

So... Eff it. Walked away without completing the order.

Guess I'm not eating anything until dinner today.

I'm sure it won't be around much longer, but right now we still have a full cafe' with 4 different stations (Pizza, grill, salad/wrap/sandwich counter, and "special of the day") where you can not only get your food ordered and handed to you directly from a human, but at the grill they can short-order pretty much anything you can think of, and they carry a pretty wide variety of ingredients.  OAM would be delighted to know that you can even order an egg sandwich at 1 PM if you like.

[FearlessF]

wasn't able to get a tee time yesterday - my fault should have called a few days in advance
wasn't able to get a tee time this afternoon - usually wide open on a Monday but hosting a 36 hole college tournament

grumpy!

[FearlessF]

Ugh. Will be at the office a little later than planned today, so I figured I'd go down to the cafeteria to buy a crappy overpriced lunch. But their stupid tablet-based ordering system is terrible. You can't order fries. You can order a burger and make it a combo (fries+drink) but you can't even order a burger and then add fries (no drink). And they want to charge me $1.25 just to put cheese on a $13.25 smash burger, plus another $4.50 to make it a combo--that I don't want. I don't need soda. I miss the days when you could actually order from a human. In those days, you could even order garlic fries--if not officially on the menu, they could add it for a small upcharge. Now you only get to order what's on the tablet.

So... Eff it. Walked away without completing the order.

Guess I'm not eating anything until dinner today.

I've walked out of a couple different places because of this
I did order that way at a Portillo's in Texas - I regret it 

[CatsbyAZ]

Ever since signing up for AAA Roadside Assistance a few years back, several times a month I receive in the mail membership forms from AARP hoping that I sign up even though I am not exactly eligible.

[MikeDeTiger]

My phone number has somehow fallen into the hands of a political machine.  I've been getting annoying texts all this week.  I reply "stop" and the stop is confirmed, but it doesn't matter.  They spam me from an endless supply of fresh numbers, so that I'm still getting like 10 of the things per day.  I think this happened the last time it was an election year.  

If there's a DNC registry but for texts, I wish I knew it.  

[MikeDeTiger]

^^^  Yesterday at 7:30 pm I got another one of those texts, except this one was more worrying.  Instead of harassing me to do a survey, donate to a campaign, or whatever, this one said "Thank you for your donation of $33.28 to Kamala Harris.  If this is a mistake, please click here:  *Link*  stop=end"

I haven't donated any amount to anybody--and such an oddly specific amount either--and I ain't clicking that link.  It's probably bait, but now I have to go check all the credit cards and bank accounts anyway, because we've been scammed a couple of times in the past couple of years and I'm scarred by it.  

[FearlessF]

evil SOBs

[SFBadger96]

Yeah, the ubiquity of sharing mobile numbers for a variety of things makes it difficult to avoid. The spam sucks. 

[847badgerfan]

Surgery got aborted due to an emergency with the guy before me.

All hooked up to IV, EKG crap and all the machines.

All for nothing.

[utee94]

Dang sorry to hear that bf.

[utee94]

Today's a tough one for my family.  We had to put down our dog Lucy, she's a black lab mix who was a rescue dog that we adopted as a puppy 9 years ago.  The kids have basically grown up with her and it's especially tough on them.

She presented last week with some alarming symptoms, she couldn't keep any food down, was clearly in discomfort, and then we saw that her eyes were getting yellow-tinged with jaundice so we suspected liver issues.  We took her to the vet after a couple of days, and although they were unable to come up with a specific diagnosis, the imaging showed that it was potentially cancer around her liver and/or gall bladder.  She descended pretty rapidly over the past couple of days and we made the decision last night to take her in to be put to sleep this morning.  

Sucky day, but we're all just trying to focus on the nine years of happy memories.  She was a good dog and she loved the kids, and they loved her.