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"Emergency Exit Only"
Background info: At my school, there's a lot of construction and has been for about the past year. The old student center was torn down and, thus, three things that used to be in it were moved out of it: The campus bookstore, the cafeteria, and the cafe. The bookstore has since been moved into the new student center (which is nice and shiny. *heart*), though two things remain in what is affectionately referred to as the Tent: The cafeteria and the cafe.
Since the cafeteria has a $6 entrance fee for all-you-can-fit-onto-a-plate-without-stuff-falling-off-of-it and I don't eat *that* much, I go to the cafe instead. For fire safety/emergency reasons, though, part of the screen separating the two eating facilities has been removed so, if there's an emergency, students have two possible escape routes. *end background info*
The emergency exit between the two facilities is very clearly marked with signs that say 'For Emergency Use Only'. However, students will *constantly* walk through it anyway. Today I saw something that just...well, it annoyed me because of what happened.
Me: *sitting there, reading the last several chapters of a book, but occasionally glancing over to see if the lunch rush is over*
Rude guy (RG): *walks through the emergency exit to get to the cafe-side door*
Cashier lady (CL): Excuse me, you need to turn around and go back the other way.
RG: *without even stopping or looking at her* Ok. *keeps walking and leaves the way he's not supposed to*
Me:
CL:
This is probably the first time I've ever seen anyone just openly blow the cashiers off when they tell them to go the other way. Usually, they get the catbutt face and go stomping back to the cafeteria side, though a few of them do apologize and look genuinely shamefaced about not seeing the signs posted on both sides of the emergency exit marking it as such.
Bonus: A few minutes later, when CL was helping another customer, some guy snuck past her through the emergency door while she was too busy to notice.
TMI. O.o Very much TMI (This one is more a 'Whiskey-tango-foxtrot' moment than a Sighting.)
Ok, so after I determined it was safe to go get some food, I disappeared into the back to forage for whatever was available for the day. One of the soups was chicken and corn chowder. Usually very good, so I decided to maybe get that. One problem, though- I can't eat things that have very large pieces of onion in them, so I asked for help from the woman who works behind the Pizza Hut Express counter.
Now, this woman is very nice, but she will talk your danged ear off if you give her the chance. The minute I mentioned the onion issue, she starts talking about how she gave up on eating onions and garlic because they cause really bad flatulence, though she's starting eating them again and just lives with it. She then told me how she eats "very little meat and lots of beans and stuff with high fiber so..." and then she began making this motion with her hands that made it terribly obvious what she was trying to say.
I try not to be rude, but...how the heck do you gracefully bow out of conversations like that? Seriously, I want people's advice on that.
Background info: At my school, there's a lot of construction and has been for about the past year. The old student center was torn down and, thus, three things that used to be in it were moved out of it: The campus bookstore, the cafeteria, and the cafe. The bookstore has since been moved into the new student center (which is nice and shiny. *heart*), though two things remain in what is affectionately referred to as the Tent: The cafeteria and the cafe.
Since the cafeteria has a $6 entrance fee for all-you-can-fit-onto-a-plate-without-stuff-falling-off-of-it and I don't eat *that* much, I go to the cafe instead. For fire safety/emergency reasons, though, part of the screen separating the two eating facilities has been removed so, if there's an emergency, students have two possible escape routes. *end background info*
The emergency exit between the two facilities is very clearly marked with signs that say 'For Emergency Use Only'. However, students will *constantly* walk through it anyway. Today I saw something that just...well, it annoyed me because of what happened.
Me: *sitting there, reading the last several chapters of a book, but occasionally glancing over to see if the lunch rush is over*
Rude guy (RG): *walks through the emergency exit to get to the cafe-side door*
Cashier lady (CL): Excuse me, you need to turn around and go back the other way.
RG: *without even stopping or looking at her* Ok. *keeps walking and leaves the way he's not supposed to*
Me:
CL:
This is probably the first time I've ever seen anyone just openly blow the cashiers off when they tell them to go the other way. Usually, they get the catbutt face and go stomping back to the cafeteria side, though a few of them do apologize and look genuinely shamefaced about not seeing the signs posted on both sides of the emergency exit marking it as such.
Bonus: A few minutes later, when CL was helping another customer, some guy snuck past her through the emergency door while she was too busy to notice.
TMI. O.o Very much TMI (This one is more a 'Whiskey-tango-foxtrot' moment than a Sighting.)
Ok, so after I determined it was safe to go get some food, I disappeared into the back to forage for whatever was available for the day. One of the soups was chicken and corn chowder. Usually very good, so I decided to maybe get that. One problem, though- I can't eat things that have very large pieces of onion in them, so I asked for help from the woman who works behind the Pizza Hut Express counter.
Now, this woman is very nice, but she will talk your danged ear off if you give her the chance. The minute I mentioned the onion issue, she starts talking about how she gave up on eating onions and garlic because they cause really bad flatulence, though she's starting eating them again and just lives with it. She then told me how she eats "very little meat and lots of beans and stuff with high fiber so..." and then she began making this motion with her hands that made it terribly obvious what she was trying to say.
I try not to be rude, but...how the heck do you gracefully bow out of conversations like that? Seriously, I want people's advice on that.
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