WorldWide Munchies

So the other day I went to the Subway drivethru to get a couple of sandwiches. A 6″ turkey for myself and a deli for the wife, this time she saw steak on the menu and decided to try that. I place my order and drive up to pay, the total was about $2 more than I thought it should be so I asked why. The conversation went something like this:

:That’ll be $9 something please.
:Why so expensive? Isn’t the steak only $3.19?
:We don’t have a deli steak so I had to charge you for a 6″ steak.
:But your sign says a deli is $3.19
:Oh, that’s a deli steak and egg, you asked for a steak so it’s the price of a 6″.
:Well how about you sell me a deli steak and egg without the egg.
:Oh… uhmm… sure, that’ll be $6 something please.

This happened 3 times before I smartened up and started ordering a steak and egg without the egg, which for some reason they get a kick out of.

Are you stupid? Do you belong on this website? I thought I did, at least a little, and it turns out I was right. I’m a little stupid, but not too much. I think the questions I got wrong were mostly the ones relating to the US.

: Really quiet night huh? Must be just the way you like it.
: No actually I love to see the store full of people spending money.

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: Brings up movie with big orange “Rented” tag on it.
: Looks at customer.
: I’d like to rent this please.
: It’s already rented.
: Oh that’s what that means.

This was without a doubt one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.  I never laughed once throughout the entire thing!  Normally I like this sort of thing, Naked Gun, Hot Shots and Ace Ventura are among my favorite comedies.  Even the original Scary Movie was pretty good, but this, Epic Movie, was a steaming piece of dog shit (and just as funny).  If you haven’t seen it, DON’T!  If you have seen it, you have my condolences.

I used to own a Dreamcast, like a lot of people, and for it’s time it was a great console.  The graphics were great and there were some decent games on it that haven’t been seen since.  Armada was one of my all time favorites and despite rumors of an Armada 2 showing up on XBox, PS2 and newer generation systems, it never came to be.

What killed this great console?  Sega’s last foray into the console hardware market?  I believe piracy had a strong hand in it.  Don’t get me wrong, normally when the corporate big-wigs start blaming piracy for the loss of billions of fun bux in the entertainment industry I just roll my eyes.  A lot of pirates wouldn’t buy the item anyway, even if that was their only choice, the ‘industry’ loses nothing from those people.  But in the case of the Dreamcast it was just too easy to play copied games and I feel that it really hurt their software sales.  You didn’t even need to install a mod chip or run any kind of crack on the console itself.  Download a game, run a little file to crack it, burn it to a CD and you normally had a perfectly working copy of the game.

I could be wrong in all of this of course, but I’m too lazy to bother doing more in-depth research into SEGAs reasons for letting such a good piece of hardware die an early death.  I think I’m right (at least somewhat) and that’s good enough for me.

This particular idjit I had the pleasure of seeing personally.  A guy came into the store I work at and wandered around a bit, he kept looking at the counter and we quickly got the whole ‘this guy’s going to steal’ vibe from him.  Sure enough, he bent down behind a shelf for a moment at which point one of the counter girls called over to him “Can I help you sir?”.  He stood back up right away and said no, he was just browsing.  He finished his walk around the aisle and promptly left.

Thinking that something was amiss I went over to check on the stuff he had walked past and after several minutes figured out that something was in fact missing.  I went down to the office to review the security footage and sure enough, at the time when the girl shouted over to him, he was in the middle of putting a box into his jacket, but he put that back on the shelf.  The item he stole, he stuffed down his coat sleeve, was a 10 pack of blank cassette tapes.  Yep, it’s hard to enough to believe that we still have such a thing in stock let alone someone wanting to steal them.

After being picked up 20 minutes later by the police, stolen goods still in his possession, he even said to the cops “yeah it was pretty stupid to steal that, I should have taken something better..”   My immediate reponse to that was “He shouldn’t have been stealing anything in the first place!”  What an idjit.