This "Not Always Right" feels faker than most...

BLOT: (09 Nov 2010 - 07:52:10 PM)

This "Not Always Right" feels faker than most...

I'm a fan of [The Customer Is] Not Always Right, the bloggish thing that allows anonymous submissions of encounters with bad customers (many of said customers having greatly aggravated senses of entitlement). Of course, I would guess more than half are altered in some degree to better state the case. In some, you get some implausible faulty logic bits going on for way longer than anyone not suffering from a mental disability would persist in keeping up. And, kind of often, the dialogue bounces in a way that it makes me think they are cutting out exchanges that might be better explain the weird behavior. Then you have ones like this, "In Real Hot Sauce Now," which claims to be from a restaurant in London.

Here are the actions: dude/tte is in line and jackass shoves up to the front of the line and starts berating the "young teenager" smiling behind the register. She does not recognize the order, but is able to "look it up" (presumably, this is some sort of magic fast food restaurant where only one type of each sandwich is ordered every day). Everyone else bolts, excepts the person telling the story, who, in front of the line so right by the register, somehow manages to pull out a cellphone and call the cops. Then, s/he is able to alert the girl behind the counter that the police have been called, without the jackass finding out. The cashier stalls the customer for long enough that the cops come and drag the bad customer away. The manager comes out [of hiding], is chided for being 30 and a male and not defending the poor, young girl's honor, offers said girl a promotion "on the spot", and she turns him down for being a coward and quits, then and there. Takes some money and some food, and the storyteller gets to share in this glorious repast. And, I suppose, they all drink lemonade...

That's either a direct rip from a movie or TV show I haven't seen, or that is some dude/tte's sexual fantasy about the spunky, young cashier that needs to be saved but the mean old manager is too cowardly to do it. I know, I know, complaining about the stuff on that website is pointless, but I couldn't start chuckling at how horrendously fake this one in particular sounds.

BY WEEK: 2010, Week 45
BY MONTH: November 2010