Medium-Largeish One!!

[customersruinmylife]

This literally happened not five minutes ago. I went to my favourite take out place. The people there are great, they really look after their customers...as long as they are not sucky!

So, SC enters.

SC: Hi, I want a Shish Kebab.
Cashier: OK then, would you like a small, medium or large.
SC: Ummmmmmm....mmmmmmm....

This went on for about a minute.

SC: Ummm...I will have a medium-largeish size.
C: I'm sorry?
SC: A MED-IUM-LARGE-ISH Shish Kebab!
C: I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused, would you like a medium or a large?
SC: Yes.
C: Medium or large??
SC: YES.
C: Sir, you need to tell me medium or large.
SC: For God's sake! The one that's most expensive!
C: So a large then?
SC: Yes! Why did you have to make it so complicated??

[Carolaaine]

SC: Yes! Why did you have to make it so complicated??

Because I love to torment you and watch you fail.

[rerant]

FIRE CLEANSES ALL!

[poofy_puff]

*I* could have TOLD you that size DOES matter!


One of my pet peeves is when there are only two sizes and they are called "medium" and "large" . Now I realize that pizzas are a special case. I'm talking about stuff like orange juice at mom-and-pop diners. I won't even get started on Starbucks, where EVERY size is a word for "large" in some language.

[rerant]

I won't even get started on Starbucks, where EVERY size is a word for "large" in some language.

Except venti. It means twenty and they use it for their large because the drink is 20oz.

WHY someone would ever want or need a 20oz coffee is beyond me...

[Chanlin]

WHY someone would ever want or need a 20oz coffee is beyond me...

Class at 8am + not a morning person = much caffeine needed. Though I'm not a coffee person.

Should also check out www.illwillpress.com and look at the toon titled "small, medium, large" its good for a laugh. (Warning site is NSFW or young children)

[Nyoibo]

Except venti. It means twenty and they use it for their large because the drink is 20oz.

WHY someone would ever want or need a 20oz coffee is beyond me...

Foolish dependancies.

[PepperElf]

20oz too big? hell one of my friends use to carry a 64 oz coffee mug... think he got it from 711

[derangedperson]

Say it with me now...

[Chromatix]

When it comes to pizza, I think it's perfectly reasonable to use inches of diameter. A 9" or 10" pizza is a good meal for one person, so long as the base is respectably thick. A 14" pizza is family-size.

In Finland the pizzas have specific names, though. Plain "pizza" is roughly a 9" thin base - what in Britain would be called "stonebake". "Pannupizza" is a thick base. "Perhepizza" is "family size", and may or may not also be a "pannupizza".

I can never figure out what "small, regular, large" refer to. I'm a fully-grown adult, but not at all tall or wide, so sometimes I find that "small" clothes fit, and sometimes "medium". In two very specific departments - one of which is unmentionable - I need "king size". With food and especially drink, it's even worse.

[wolfie]

WHY someone would ever want or need a 20oz coffee is beyond me...

The chain where I fuel up most often, the free coffee (or soda) with a minimum 50 gallon fuel purchase (get 2 with a minimum 150 gallons) is 20 ounces - unless you bring your own mug. Then, you can get the small refill (depending on the branch, it's either up to 56 ounces or up to 64 ounces) instead of the 20 ounce cup.

[poofy_puff]

The chain where I fuel up most often, the free coffee (or soda) with a minimum 50 gallon fuel purchase (get 2 with a minimum 150 gallons) is 20 ounces - unless you bring your own mug. Then, you can get the small refill (depending on the branch, it's either up to 56 ounces or up to 64 ounces) instead of the 20 ounce cup.

Sounds like your gas tank was made by Starbucks too! 50 and 150 gallons? Do they issue a card where you get stamped for every 10 gallons, or something like that?

[BookstoreEscapee]

I used to work with a guy who would get a Venti coffee and put in 18 packs of sugar. I measured it one day...that's 1/4 cup of sugar.

[McGoddess09]

Gah! I hate when people do that! People will tell me they want a regular sized drink, so it narrows it down to medium and small, so I just give them the more expensive one. Can't tell me what size, then I will take more out of your wallet.

One time,when I worked at an ice cream stand, a lady ordered a rootbeer float and when I asked her what size she wanted, she said any size. That doesn't help me. So, I told her the three sizes. Again, she said any. I told her that there are three different charges and that I need to know which one so I can actually give it to her. Finally, she said "Fine! Just give me a medium! Make it so difficult why don't you?"

I wa sin a horrible mood that day. I was working a double and one of my friends was in basic for the army and I was missing him like crazy, so I said "I'M making it difficult?"

Heh.

[Chromatix]

Fifty gallons is a heck of a lot of fuel. I think 50-litre tanks are not too uncommon, but a gallon is a lot more than a litre.

So is this a truck stop or something? Trucks do have big fuel tanks, and truckers do have a need for coffee.