DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
When I was young and broke I used to unscrew the shampoo in the store and fill them up to the brim with a second bottle and then buy them. So I may be the reason one can’t take the lid off.
Sorry about that
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Can we discuss pet peeves here? (5 Viewers)
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Sorry about that
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Valet, restaurants, hotel staff, car service, hardware store, bars, hostesses, etc.
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belljr
Footballguy
Asian nails
offdee
Footballguy
Restaurants, hardware stores and bars all take credit card.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
This is the kind of insight that keeps me coming back to this forum.
jhib
Footballguy
Hardware store?
The rest seem like tipping scenarios, but that one?
Although I guess there's Snoop and her, "You earned that buck like a mfer, man. Keep that ****." (such an awesome scene)
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Smaller hardware store like ACE, I usually throw the kids a few bucks for loading my truck with mulch and lumber.
jhib
Footballguy
Ahhh, makes sense. The guys at our local place have always refused to take anything when helping load, so it's been a long time since I even thought about that.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Shopping a the local ACE is like going back in time. The local ag boys and girls all offer help inside and outside the store. Mr R loves that place. It's very customer friendly.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Sometimes they’re a little more expensive but everyone is willing and *gasp*, eager to assist.
They also have the odd things HD/Lowes doesn’t. Lumber is actually cheaper and better quality than HD at mine right now. It’s always been better, but usually more expensive.
jhib
Footballguy
Yeah, that's our Agway here (which actually recently switched to getting their hardware from Ace now). Other local stores complained when big box stores opened in our town, but Agway just differentiated themselves from the HD & Lowes that both arrived by their level of personal service. No wandering around lanes looking for help or anything like that. They are seriously helpful there, so even though there are times when one of HD/Lowes is the easy choice bc of selection, there are plenty of times when I just prefer to go to Agway.
And I agree that the service makes you want to tip (especially the young workers), but they are trained to just walk away quickly when they're done and refuse any tips, which makes me like the place even more.
the moops
Footballguy
That seems nuts to me. I love my local hardware store, and they have a particularly wonderful fastener section, but I would never consider them for lumber because it is like 4 times as much as the big box stores/
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Our ACE is pretty rural, so it has a good selection of the bigger items like lumber.
belljr
Footballguy
Laughing reaction
belljr
Footballguy
Never tip on the CC .. servers get screwed
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Cash tips are king. Venmo ain’t bad either.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
How so?
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Just went to a local cash only bar on Friday
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Yeah they will take card for payment but not for tips so I always have to Venmo my wife’s nail lady
“But lamb, why doesn’t your wife have her own Venmo?”
This is a good question with no good answer, although it does keep her from asking why my friends are sending me payment for Hot Rear Action or things like that (for fantasy football)
Keerock
Footballguy
Would not patronize. Outside of tips at my son's wedding, can't tell you the last time I used cash on anything.
3C's
Footballguy
Went to a brewery in CO that was cash only but they had an ATM on site. Guessing there's a chance they get some ATM fees? It was fine though as it's well known that they're cash only.
Local weed store is cash only but debit card is okay.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I don’t use it too often, but I’ve been going here for years and know the drill so I always come prepared
Our kids HS football games are cash only too for entry
Funny enough I was out to dinner on Sunday when the place lost power. They were able to finish our order and would have done a manual credit card entry later but luckily I had $100 stashed for emergency so was able to cover it
All our HS sports are app only. You can't pay cash. You have to use the app to buy the tickets and then the app charges $1 per ticket on top of the charge for the ticket. It is absolutely ridiculous.
ETA: The worst part about it is that it ends up screwing the schools because the app takes most of the money. The school would get much better returns if they just handled it. However, I do understand that it then requires a school official to man the gate and handle the cash. That is the biggest draw back to the school who is already undermanned.
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I’ve been to a few away games that have that yeah it’s pretty stupid
offdee
Footballguy
Exactly. I just wouldn’t go to the small niche of places that only take cash. Get with the times.
And giving tips on credit card works just fine.
Mookie
Footballguy
Speaking of apps, needing an app for everything is starting to be a major pet peeve.
For example, an environmental club at our high school is trying to get a compost program off the ground by having a bin behind the school, which is close to our house. My wife wants to support it so she saved up all our food scraps and coffee grounds for the week and we walked over to drop them off last night. When we get there, we learned that in order to open the bin, you need to (1) download the app; (2) open an account; (3) verify your email; (4) read and agree to the rules; and (5) send a message from your phone, to space, and then to the bin 18" away to unlock it.
This whole process took 20 minutes just to walk over and dump our food scraps, and because my wife had left rice on the stove (another pet peeve - why insist on this outing when you have something on the stove?), it led to us eating burnt dinner.
For example, an environmental club at our high school is trying to get a compost program off the ground by having a bin behind the school, which is close to our house. My wife wants to support it so she saved up all our food scraps and coffee grounds for the week and we walked over to drop them off last night. When we get there, we learned that in order to open the bin, you need to (1) download the app; (2) open an account; (3) verify your email; (4) read and agree to the rules; and (5) send a message from your phone, to space, and then to the bin 18" away to unlock it.
This whole process took 20 minutes just to walk over and dump our food scraps, and because my wife had left rice on the stove (another pet peeve - why insist on this outing when you have something on the stove?), it led to us eating burnt dinner.
offdee
Footballguy
I’m gonna guess you carry cash.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
one of my favorite dive bars in San Francisco is cash only with an atm on site. unfortunately, it has not been a secret for quite some time.
Seems like it's a one time thing to load/sign up for the app and now you have it, it should be a quick transaction from now on.
mr. furley
Footballguy
my kid's HS went to this model this year. very annoying.
the concession stands now also no longer take cash, but also don't take all of the various payment apps, so it's a crapshoot if you can buy anything while there. a brilliant plan.
arrow1
Footballguy
why not just have it as open the door and dump the stuff in. App seems overkill and ridiculous.
Because they don't want random people putting crap in there that doesn't belong. If it was just open to everyone then you would end up with people dumping all their trash in the bin and ruining the whole point of having it.
offdee
Footballguy
Exactly this. Also now they don't have to hire people to sit there and give direction and monitor.
ChiefD
Footballguy
It's pretty stout. Mostly good stuff. I have a rake I bought at ACE about 22 years ago still going strong. Bought a second one about 8 years ago so my wife could join the leaf raking party. That one is still like new.
And the best part is if you are in their ACE Rewards club, you get rewards on their app and through the mail pretty consistently. One of the ones I like is the spend $100 and get $20 off. I can always find $80 of stuff I need at a hardware story. Basically I get $20 of free stuff. And on your birthday they send you a reward of just $10 of free stuff.
It's beautiful. And for those days I don't need $80, they always have a $5 off $25 purchased or something like that.
ACE is the place boys.
They don't hire anyone to do that at HS games (at least not the HS's in this area). It's typically a teacher, coach, parent, or student that is doing this. It's not someone that they "hire" specifically for game management.
offdee
Footballguy
Either way, they still have to coordinate and schedule people to do this which is a pain (and non paid people are unreliable). An app removes this headache. Time is money.
But it doesn't remove the headache as you still need someone at the door checking the phones to see the tickets were purchased. It really doesn't change anything other than the handling of money.
General Malaise
Footballguy
I do.
mr. furley
Footballguy
this is a massive pet peeve of mine when trying to get in to Lambeau
no more ripping tickets, or even having someone standing there with a hand scanner, now you need to have the tickets in an app on your phone. which you then have to line up precisely with the scanner that's about waist height.
needing to have the ticket app open apparently surprises a fair number of people, who wait until they get to the ticket verification process to open the app... but they may be too drunk to operate the phone..or there are connectivity issues.. or their wife has the tickets on her phone, which is .... somewhere.
each "improvement" has vastly slowed the ingress process. especially when it's cold outside and people are pulling off gloves to access their phones at the absolute last possible second.
used to be able to pull up to Lambeau at 11:30 and be in the seats by 11:50. nearly exactly every time. now we're there at 11 - 11:15 and sitting down 3-5 minutes before kick.
Pus you don't get the actual ticket as a keepsake. When the LA Kings went to electronic tickets we had an option as season ticket holders to get printed ticket books.......but it costs extra. I actually liked the couple of years where they sent you the nice ticket books but you had the ability to do electronic tickets. It gave you a nice keepsake (if you wanted it) of a full ticket book. Some years they were really nice.
That is all gone now.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Do you work for a credit card processing company?
Or is credit card honk some new creative schtick you are trying out?
Like that guy that tried speaking like one of the knights of the round table for a few weeks?
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Screwed is a relative term. Uncle Sam won’t get his portion. and if the server chooses to not tip the support staff from the cash tip, that’s more money for them.
they also get the money immediately. Many restaurants pay the CC tips out Weekly
nirad3
Footballguy
I *never* do this, but for some odd reason I felt the urge to do so this past Thursday when I took a dip in my hotel's pool. Have no idea what compelled me to do so.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Buddy, this is AWFUL! I bought 3 extra tix to the opening Oregon Ducks game this year using some 3rd rate website to buy tickets. Transferred them to my wife's phone since she was going to be sitting there with 2 of the kids. Figured it would all be fine. Well, getting to the stadium with 60K other people in an area of the state that's not exactly urban tends to jam up phones and so people trying to access tickets on their phones absent any connectivity means all sorts of chaos. It's awful. Bring back the option for paper tickets. Technology is not always your friend.
Oh, and we weren't getting into that game without a kindly security guard taking pity on us - one of my sons was about to cry. He saw my two tickets that I had saved to my wallet (which my wife neglected to do, but still, should have been able to access tickets we paid for) and said 'look, I believe you bought these, I'm going to let you guys on through'.
And because of this nice security guard taking pity on us and saving our day, I gave him a handshake with a $20 bill in the palm of my hand. Why? BECAUSE I STILL USE CASH, OFFDEE. IT IS STILL THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF LOVE!!!!!!!!!!111111111 I'm not bribing a security guard with an AMEX.
General Malaise
Footballguy
I tip servers and bar tenders in cash probably 80% of the time. 
Always have, always will.
Always have, always will.
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parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Well there is also the issue of the CC processing %. So either the restaurant is eating this, which sucks for them, or the server is which sucks.
offdee
Footballguy
Did you turn into a woman for a minute?
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Were there lots of kids? Maybe instinctual reaction to keep kids snot and feces out of your nose.
Mookie
Footballguy
Exactly. It says in big writing on the side "THIS IS NOT FOR TRASH! COMPOST ONLY!" If i wanted to put my garbage in there and be a Richard, I could still go through the app process.
