If anyone here is one of the many people who chased a drunk, vomiting fylgie (Norse mythology, think evil, stripe-y pixie or sprite) off their lawn in Chicago in 2005, I'm very sorry and much more mature, now. I puke on my own front lawn.

Amen! I'm so glad I don't work with the public any more. Someone will probably get stabbed if I ever get pulled out of the kitchen to deal with a shitty customer. Probably safest to keep me in back.

I have a pretty low patience level and several brain/mouth filters missing, so I think they did. I'm not sure everyone would agree, but I usually managed to keep my smart mouth limited to people who knew they would sound like absolute idiots if they complained.

If it puts your mind at ease at all, every single health code/food handler thing I've ever seen specifies that you need to use pasteurized eggs if they aren't going to be cooked.

Worst part is we knew exactly who it was, but our manager wouldn't let us call her out on it. Best I could do was a sarcastic "funny how that always happens to you. Once a month." Didn't stop her, though.

We, the former partners of Starbucks, salute you!

I don't know if this would be a feasable solution for your family situation, but I've had a couple relatives pull the "am I embarrassing you?" crap, and I've found that looking them in the eye and telling them "yes, you're a seventy year old man throwing a temper tantrum. It's incredibly embarrassing to know you right…

When I worked at Starbucks, there was a woman who flushed pads. And the cardboard boxes they came in. Every month. To the point where we'd wave 'bye to the plumber and tell him we'd see him in 28 days.

In fairness, it *is* edible, it just doesn't taste very good. It's a (way overused, imo) decorative element. It is way easier to put a smooth layer of fondant on a cake than it is to smooth buttercream by hand, and also helps keep costs lower because you don't end up factoring as much labor into the cost. Getting a…

...are these people aware that they are supposed to peel off the fondant? "Supposed to" might be a bit of a strong way to say it, but I'm a baker, and it's pretty well acknowledged in the industry that fondant tastes like sugary sewage, and we expect it to get removed before anyone eats the cake underneath.

I can do pretty credible impression of someonewho ddoesn't play the harp very well.

This trailer needs, like, at least 800 percent more Natalie Dormer. I have a gigantic crush on her and she shaved the side of her head like me and clearly this means we should be BEST FRIENDS FOREVER and she's only in like the last second and I AM SAD!

Yeah, it's already in the various news outlets interest to milk the panic for all it's worth to keep ratings up. If she had gone to a station and been like "hey, this is what happened to me. It's ridiculous and wrong and here are well thought out reasons why" it would be different.

I absolutely agree. Like I said, I really feel like there are much better ways. I may not know what they are, but I'm sure they exist. I was just making the point that even if she was being completely rational and not making it an "all about me and my inconvenience" fest, the media would still have a vested interest…

Yeah, kinda seems like a crap situation either way. No matter if she develops symptoms or not, every single case has been so relentlessly dramatized by the media outlets (I live in DFW, every single newspaper STILL has Ebola as a front page story), that even saying that the quarantine is ridiculous is going to make…

You know, she was treated like shit and should absolutely call out the crap policies that led to the treatment she got. I'm just not sure she's going about it the right way. Going to the same media that has been over-sensationalizing every single case of Ebola in this country and saying you aren't going to follow the…

I don't know how true this is, but I've read that quite a few of the accusations before the Salem era were against elderly women who had previously served the area as midwives and healers. The theory I've seen posited is that the accusations were a way to get out of a perceived social debt to these women. Thet had…

I love it. I've been trying to think of a Halloween name for at least a week. Best I've come up with so far is TheQueenof(Rabid)WoodlandCreatures

I have, on a few occasions, been known to sign "please kill yourself" at dudes who stare. At least one of them got it. He was not particularly happy about it but went away when I hissed at him.

There's a woman I work with who gets stared at and creeped on more than anyone, literally anyone, I have ever met. Way more than me or any other woman in the building. It seems to happen with roughly 95 percent of the men who come in. I've taken to standing a foot or so back behind her and just mean-mugging them until…