.....we're a GROCERY STORE!!!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Well, that just blows.

It sucks to swallow, doesn't it?

[Pagan]

A long time ago, after Texas broke away from Mexico but BEFORE it became a U.S. state, it was an independent nation. Look it up, it's in the history books. It's a fascinating piece of history.

And I'm all for letting it go back to being it's own country. Then New Mexico seals it's border with it and charges all of the damnTexans stranded here an exorbitant amount to be let out!

That's my dream anyway.

What bugs me though, is that many people seem to be under the impression that hotel=convenience store. I get random people who aren't guests, all the time coming in trying to buy stuff.
Cigarettes is the most common request, and when I tell them they have to go 3 bloocks to the 7/11, it's cat-butt face, every single time. Look, it's 4am on a week night, if you're that desparate for smokes, 3 blocks shouldn't be that big a deal. Most then ask me to call them a cab.

I'm also not a coffee shop, nor an internet cafe, especially if you aren't even staying here.

I've had multiple people come in asking to buy umbrellas and jackets (wtf? Who goes to a hotel to buy a jacket? One time I actually did sell someone a sweater that had been in the lost and found for about 4 months. I made 5 bucks.)

I've had several non-guests come in looking for free 24-hour computer tech support, one guy who wanted to buy a new inkjet cartridge for his printer, and a woman who wanted to rent our photo copier. Not that she just wanted to make a few copies, she actually expected us to rent her our photocopier for a month, and deliver it to her home business.

Ok, those just broke my brain.

Why am I getting some wacky mental image of someone using Uncle Ben's rice in a way that shouldn't even be thought of?

Oh, now that's just wrong!

I second that!

I say "hola", I'm in western MA, and the only "non-white" in my background is some Cherokee waaaaaayyyy back. I think Spain and Portugal are the only European countries not found in my family tree. I'm just strange. Drives my OC aunt crazy(-ier).

I know I get funny looks sometimes. I'm a white girl, and on any given day, I'm using a variation on Spanglish. I sound like a chola when I'm tired, the speech pattern just takes over. But, given the fact that I was born and raised in southern NM and that's what I grew up hearing.... I've actually had people in ABQ ask me if I'm from the South Valley. Yes, yes I am, the Mesilla Valley.

thís thread has officially hit the gutter level.

Took you this long to notice?

When I was working at a TJ Maxx some guy asked me if we do adjustments on clothes.

There's a dirty joke in there somewhere....

Mexican food stores supposedly have sugared Coke, but I've not looked into it, partly because I'd feel out of place in them, being terminally northern European as I am.

They use cane sugar. Which is what makes it too damn sweet for me.

Limited editions are like that though . . .

And now I'm missing the Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry Chocolate.

Three years ago, I got some Coke with lime in UK. I have only ever seen it here in diet and I don't drink diet anything. You would think with lime, it'd be all over the southwest US!

That's better than spitting it out . . . swallowing is the polite thing to do, of course.

Well, that just blows.

[dalesys]

I believe there is also a "Law enforcement" exception clause in the sex toy ban. I'm still not sure how that would work.

Gives a whole new ambience to the phrase "You have the right to remain silent..."

[Dreamstalker]

I believe there is also a "Law enforcement" exception clause in the sex toy ban. I'm still not sure how that would work.

I'm not sure I want to know...

[elsporko]

ugh. That's gross.

Sigh, people just want Walmart Supercenters. They want to get their prescriptions, get their hair cut, buy new tires for their car, eat dunkin donuts, and pick up some toilet paper all without walking more than a few yards.

Anyone who has seen Wall-E knows where we're heading.

Whats wrong with being able to get everything at one location and for a cheap price?


The worst I have is people calling my work and thinking we are a store because our name is similiar to a store. One night I got three calls from the same person asking if we sold shirts between 2 and 3 in the morning.

[AriRashkae]

I believe there is also a "Law enforcement" exception clause in the sex toy ban. I'm still not sure how that would work.

[Dreamstalker]

*starts pondering how far the 'educational aid' definition can be stretched*

*realizes that one of her muses has the same idea*

*watches as the offender gets tackled by the others and somehow tied to the wall*

[Primer]

Sex toys:

Is that legal yet in texas?

Nope, they still have to be "educational aids."

whaddaya mean how would I know??

[DGoddessChardonnay]

But not hard to swallow.

That's better than spitting it out . . . swallowing is the polite thing to do, of course.

[Sheldonrs]

That's hard to imagine.

But not hard to swallow.

[MoxisPilot]

Most European countries I've been to have -everything- in English as well as their primary language. I have never been so grateful for any other convenience.

I'll never, ever complain about Spanish in the U.S. again (yeah, I'm guilty of it). I'll even learn it now.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

That's hard to imagine.

Perhaps we can discuss this deeper over in the Pervfest thread . . .

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Sheldon blows?

That's hard to imagine.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Sheldon blows?

All I can say is that I hope it was as good for him as it was this thread . . .

[dalesys]

Sheldon blows?