you MUST be joking

[Peppergirl]

So, where does a nice single-gal find one of these so-called 'men' who do whatever they say?

I know they exist, because I see them out-and-about in SC land..holding purses, silently witnessing their wives berating store clerks, shuffling along with their heads down, etc. I've just never actually MET one who would let me boss them around.

[protege]

Play nice, OK?

I also get warm after having some alcohol. Depends on what I'm drinking though--wine doesn't do much, but a Crown Royal + coke will

However, even if it's cold out and I want ice cream...I'm going to get it. I want my damn ice cream, and don't care what people think

[gunsage]

The sad part is I was referring to wine. Bacardi 151's more effective, though, especially when room temp.

[Sableonblonde]

Oh God...the flashbacks. Somebody make it stop. At my job over the summer we had fountain drinks and then frozen drinks, which were just frozen Kool-Aid but maaan were they good. (Okay that isn't relevant). The frozen drinks had to come in a certain cup, of course, we were not allowed to put them in the fountain drink cups. Oooooh goooood the headaches...people arguing over why they couldn't get the slushie drink in the fountain drink cup...because you just AREN'T ALLOWED, I don't make the rules, I could not care less, please just SHUT UP. Best ever was the crazy flipping-out woman who bought the slushie drink, and then bought the largest size fountain drink cup, then poured her slushie into the fountain drink cup while giving me the evil eye the whole time and acting like she had totally won. Like I care. You're the one who just spent $6.00 on 12 ounces of Kool-Aid dipshit.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Alcohol does not make you warmer. It DOES, however, open up your blood vessels a bit. If, say, your hands and toes are numb from cold, it's because blood leaves your extremities when it's cold. It goes to your vitals. To keep your blood vessels open, and thus keeping warm blood circulating in your fingers, a few very moderate sips of something like a liquer will help to that end. This does not mean to drink till you are feeling the booze. This means finding a fine line and treading it. When it's very cold and I'm out trying to hike, work, or even play in the snow, I keep a flask of liquer in my pocket. I'm extremely cold natured, but very careful nips of alchohol keep me from going numb and having to go inside.

I can't speak for other types of booze, I imagine they'd work well enough, but they might go to your head before something like a liquer, and you dont' want that.

My sister suffers from Reynaud's Syndrome. That's where the blood leaves your extremities in even mild cold and your hands and feet turn grey. It's not life threatening, but it does put you at risk for cold related injuries more than the average person. The blood vessels tighten up too quickly and too soon at the slightest sign of cold. When learning about this condition, we learned that a few very well rationed hits of alchohol can really keep those blood vessels open better. I wouldn't say I had Reynauds, but I actually DID have one episode of something like it. And I do get cold before anyone else. Keep my flask handy, all is well. I can stay out as long as everyone else.

[Tria]

I could go into the street and get all the slushie I want for free!

Yeah but it only comes in unflavored and.... "Yellow".

[Rapscallion]

So, where does a nice single-gal find one of these so-called 'men' who do whatever they say?

The recipe is simple - take one vaguely amenable chap of vaguely average appearance and so forth. Grind down over the course of a decade to a creature that realises that the course of least resistance, while making him look like a weakling, is the only one that lets him get away with his wallet intact.

It's a DIY operation.

Rapscallion

[PorkChop]

I think ice cream taste better in the winter time than in the summer. In Arizona, the temps are in the 100's so ice cream melts real fast (really messy) and it feels like a lump in my stomach.

At my C-store, we have four sizes, 16oz, 32oz, 44oz and 54oz (really big cups, they are like mini trash cans). These cups can be used for soda and for slushies, which are the same price for both.

What bugs me is that a person would grab a 44oz cup and fill it up with water and walk out the door.

Me: Excuse me! You have to pay for that cup.
SC: What! It is just water!
Me: I understand that, sir/ma'am. You still have to pay for the cup for inventory purposes. That will be $1.18, please.
SC: This is redicolous (don't we all love this word)! I want to take to your manager. *pays for drink*
Me: He'll be in in the morning. If you save that cup, you can come back and get more water for free. Soda refills is 96 cents.

Correct me if I am wrong, does cups cost more than soda?

[smileyeagle1021]

Correct me if I am wrong, does cups cost more than soda?

i don't know if it is still true, but at one point in time the cups were so expensive in relation to the soda that companies had no problem giving soda away as long as it got people to pay for the cups.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I find that on coming back from the pub after getting drunk, I feel freezing cold and just have to have a hot water bottle when I get in. I've never gotten that warming effect. -.-

As for the OP's post, I personally would have made her pay for the slushie she chucked away.

[bigjimaz]

From doing a bit of research, I see that a lot of (500) 32 ounce cups with lids costs $167.00 or about 33.3¢ per cup/lid. A single 32 ounce serving of pepsi served from a soda fountain with separate co2 tank and boxed Pepsi syrup would cost about 22.3¢ per serving. So indeed the cup is more expensive than the product.

[Mr. Security]

all I got say is wow over $2.60 for 32oz of slurpee. That's a lot. where I live( 8 time slurpee capital of the world ) 1.8L of slurpee cost $2.25(new cup)/ $1.47 refill of said cup and currently I am sucking on my 52oz slurpee mug that is $1.11 for a slurpee refill and oh yeah it's currently -28C outside also at the 7-11 wear I am they don't care if you use the slurpee cups, or the fountain regular/super/double Gulp cups for slurpees it pretty much all cost the same

[blas]

Bella lives in Wisconsin, just to clarify....and yes, even us arctic dwellers still buy ice cream and cold drinks in winter.

Wisconsin is one of the coldest states in the country. We're used to it. Nothing is too cold for us.

[Mikaiyawa]

Darn it guys .. Now you have me craving ice cream.

It's only 37 degrees F. here in Texas but it's wet and windy. Think I'll snitch one of my hubby's popsicles rather than try and deal with idiots on wet roads.

And I think I'd have been tempted to charge her for Both cups and the tossed slushie, just because she'd been Such a Brat!

Mieka

[Bella_Vixen]

so you were charging for 2 cups but she only used one (until the "dump out").

Yes and no. She had 32 oz. of slushie, so I charged her for 32 oz. of slushie. It's not my fault she tried to be slick and steal extra slushie without having to pay for it.

There is a sign right on the machine listing prices and sizes. (No, I'm not new...still optimistic that sucky customers will figure it out and not be sucky anymore.)

























Woooooooooooo! Wisconsin rules!!


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