Seriously what’s up with these bridal luncheons? Is it a southern thing? My cousin had one the day before her wedding, shortly after my flight got in. My dad, who knows I’m not fond of this cousin and would find hours with her and her future husband’s conservative family...unpleasant, told everyone there was simply no…

I kind of think it’s less monstrous this way, because you’re giving people who couldn’t make it on the out-of-town excursion a chance to party with you locally. It’s all about context.

Thank you for articulating what’s so distasteful about these. Even without the requirement that you spend a lot of money (some people are less awful and pay for shit they’re hosting), and even without the heteronormativity of traditional gender-specific nuptial traditions, there’s something about all wedding-related…

Prefix in this case, but yes. A thousand times yes.

I was mocking Grive; sorry I wasn’t clear.

This is fascinating. Someone should get a grant to study this. “Psychotropic properties of Starbucks Caramel Syrup on individuals with TNAX1* mutation,” or maybe “Affinity for Starbucks Caramel Syrup as an indicator of violent psychosis.” At the very least, perhaps variations on “caramel syrup junkie” can be the new…

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By itself, their massive wealth wouldn’t enrage me. But in the context of them acting so entitled it kind of just makes me despair for all the people they’re going to get to push around, and all the people their children will push around, having grown up in an environment where that kind of jerkish behavior toward…

LOL the tweet you posted even said explicitly that people called Jay-Z greedy, so it’s not like there’s any room for misinterpretation along the lines of “why did Taylor succeed where Tidal flopped?”

Ah, the mysteries of life.

A concrete figure like “3x the normal amount” is also really helpful, because different people have different ideas of what constitutes “a lot.” But if you know their default and you can tell them to multiply that by a factor of whatever, they can give you whatever disgusting quantity your heart desires without…

Was this a place where you order at the counter, or only pay there at the end of a sit-down restaurant experience? Regardless, you don’t need to tip twice. The presence of the tip jar suggests that either it’s a hybrid fast-food/fast-casual place where tipping is not required (but is still very much appreciated, even…

Very true. My mom was a waitress at a Howard Johnson in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, and based on her description and similar things I’ve heard, hosts back then were more akin to maitre’ds, even at casual dining restaurants. They were paid well and given a measure of authority in deciding, for example, when to send a few…

A lot of franchisees are blindingly incompetent. Many of them never worked in a restaurant before deciding to buy one, if you can believe that, nor did they ever study this in school or enlist the help of a seasoned professional to manage their investment. Working for one of these people is the worst, no doubt, but…

Just FYI, it’s depressingly common for people to make a reservation and then no-call no-show on it. Restauranteurs are in a really tough spot with this, because people will be very angry if you

I suspect that in most cases, it’s not really about being picky; it’s about using a restaurant meal as an opportunity to shit on someone who can’t fight back. I base this on several things, including my many experiences with people making requests that make absolutely no sense (e.g. “water with lemon, but I want the…

This is terrible, and you are terrible. But I am also terrible, so here we are.

I missed the whole Tidal debacle—had to Google—but while I think a lot of the people commenting on your post make good points about the differences between these two situations, I also don’t think racism is ever really absent from these things. Some people, for instance, are capable of being fair up to the point where…

I feel like this might be a very limited exception to a general rule I agree with. You saw her struggling with a specific task that you definitely knew the extent of—it’s not like when a host is unable to seat people on the waitlist after the exact amount of time quoted, which could be due to any number of issues…

People are going to respond a lot more positively to someone asking for change that doesn’t require them to put their own money behind it.