The rest of Canada apologises

Right, that's why he's exchanging texts with a teenager.

"N-no....no."

Dean Faulkner Wells, who was William Faulkner's niece and raised partly by him (her father died before she was born) had a cute story about that in her memoir, Every Day by the Sun. She was a shy teenager wearing a borrowed dress at a fancy tea party at Rowan Oak, and when they asked if she wanted lemon or milk in her…

I have totally been this idiot and ordered coffee "to go" from a kiosk in the subway station. To be fair though, the reason I need the coffee is to not do dumb stuff like that!

I used to work at Starbucks, and had someone ask me if the prepackaged fruit we got every day was fresh. She got PISSED when I couldn't give her straight answer (aka, "I didn't cut it up myself, but we got it in this morning...")

People would also knock the bananas off the counter and then give me this weird look when…

My dad was at a restaurant I believe it was in Canada. He wanted to order his hamburger medium rare.

It's about objectification. They want women to be dressed up provocatively, but they don't want those women to be people. They want something that exists for no other reason than to cater to their fantasies.

Posts like this really seem to bring out the trolls/MRAs/NotAllMen types. Does the geek community have a higher proportion of these knuckle-draggers? If so, that's pretty sad.

But I love those, especially with a side of fuh-JAI-tuz!

This. If we, as women, quit every activity we like because we were sexually harassed or discriminated against, we'd sit in our homes with the doors locked and curtains drawn. Especially in traditionally male spaces like comic or gaming conventions.

What? She's uppity for knowing orzo isn't rice? She's uppity because she knows how to do her job properly? What are you talking about?

No. No, that is not what he is saying.

I worked for two years at a grocery store prepared foods area, and because I was the ONLY ONE who cared about quality, customer service or giving customers accurate information on the products we sold, my coworkers considered me "uppity" and hated me. We had an orzo dish with chickpeas (not very good IMO, but…

I think the dumbest thing I've ever heard at a restaurant was some lady asking for french fries with no salt (that's not the dumb part). When she was served her huge mound of fries, she started dumping packets of Sweet-n-Low on them. Her fellow diner asked her why she would do such a thing and the woman said "I like…

When I used to work at an electronics store I had a customer come in and ask for a wire. I asked what kind of wire? She said the one for her computer. I asked did you need sata cable, ethernet, phone...? She looked at me like I was an idiot, and said the wire that goes into the wall. I finally figured out she…

Once I was in a restaurant and the table of about 8 people next to mine were giving their drink orders. Most of the people were ordering cocktails of some kind, and several of them ordered Long Island Iced Teas. The woman who went last (who I think/hope was the designated driver) asked for a virgin Long Island Iced…

I remember not knowing what cauliflower was. It was served in a veggie dish and I was like "what the hell??" because my family never served it.

Let's just go with a standard service charge and be done with it. There is way too much bullshit wrapped up in a "tip". People are awful.

It seems like you can't win in the food service industry. If you flirt with customers for a tip, people think you're a 'gross slut', leading them on - whatever else "nice guys" complain about on the internet. If you don't play along with their creepy advances you don't get paid. Lovely.