Comments for Magic Pork

Comment on Diet Dr Pepper by kevin (admin)

kevin (admin) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:52:26 +0000

I would never attempt humor on this site, dry or wet. Rest assured, Dr Pepper marketing slogans and the design of their cans is of the utmost importance to my life.

BTW, you will know how much time I have on my hands because it is an inverse relationship to the frequency of my blog posts. Unfortunately, you can’t determine anything about the time on my hands by the quality or subject matter of my blog posts.

Comment on Diet Dr Pepper by Christo

Christo — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:30:03 +0000

If I only had the same complaints in my life as this blogger. You have too much time on your hands, sir. Although, I was somewhat entertained by reading your various complaints against Dr Pepper products. So, if dry humor was attempted on your part, then “Bravo” to you.

Comment on Pixies by Steve

Steve — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:42:07 +0000

One time… really… just one time that you beleive yourself to have been wrong. I would agree that your deductive reasoning skills are fairly more advanced than most. At the same time I would say that infallible is a bit of a stretch. I will certainly not point out any of the occassions when you may have been just a little outside of what most would conisider to be correct, but I am sure that it has happened.

Comment on Bathroom key by J.

J. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:14:06 +0000

Starbucks is a bit touchy on this just see the response from customer service and from an “employee”

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=12359&post=66604&uid=22092443056#post66604

Comment on Bathroom key by suicide_blond

suicide_blond — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:57:15 +0000

yeah… what he said…
xoxo

Comment on Bathroom key by kevin (admin)

kevin (admin) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:58:24 +0000

Re: Jim - Good point. That leads me to another thing I wish they had at Starbucks: a separate line for people that just want a cup of coffee. I hate waiting in line behind all these people ordering fancy drinks then finally getting up to the counter and saying “tall coffee”. But I think their method works because there’s been a couple of times that I ordered a fancy drink just BECAUSE I had waited in line so long. I had to get something more to convince myself it was worthwhile.

Comment on Bathroom key by Jim

Jim — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:41:23 +0000

The only issue i’d take with this very impressive rant is “This wasn’t a bar on a Friday night, it was a coffee shop on a Sunday afternoon. ” Um a Startbucks in this town is as busy as bars on friday night…. Of COURSE they staff should keep the bathroom clean, but when they have a line out the door of yuppies ordering extravagantly made concotions its probably tough to do anything but…

Comment on Bathroom key by kevin (admin)

kevin (admin) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:10:47 +0000

Re: Alex - I don’t have a problem with Starbucks in general, but I do miss that aspect of Rochester (where I moved from). Rochester had a lot of coffee shops within a few miles of each other: Spot, Spin, Starry Nites, Java’s. I’d forget there even was a Starbucks.

Re: Grossed Out - I also hate when bathroom attendants will have a $5 bill in the bowl, and then when you put your $1 in, they pocket it so that it looks to the next person like there’s only a $5 bill in there. Do you really think that will prompt someone to tip you $5? The only reason I’d tip $5 is if I only had a $5 bill and I planned on making 5 trips to the bathroom that night.

Re: Jamie - Doorknobs and public transportation don’t terrify me. It may not make complete sense why I’m more concerned about hotel remotes, but there are a couple differences I would like to highlight. One, I have seen doorknobs and escalators, etc being cleaned so I can convince myself that it happens (even though it probably rarely does) but those remotes never ever get cleaned. And two, as I said above, I picture some of the things that may be going on in that hotel room prior to or while touching the remote. I still use hotel remotes by the way, but it just amuses me that some people that are paranoid about germs will just pick up the remote like it’s nothing. Same with money - it never ever gets washed and is handed off from person to person, dropped on the ground, shoved in a stripper’s G-string, you name it - yet the same people that are paranoid about touching a doorknob will handle it like it’s nothing.

Comment on Bathroom key by Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:52:02 +0000

You might be a germophobe. If remote controls in hotels freak you out, doorknobs must terrify you and public transportation must terrify you. Just sayin’…

But tolerance for things that people other than you use aside — i agree with the other part of your rant. Bathroom keys suck. Almost every time I’ve had to use a bathroom in such a place, it always seems like you spend more time trying to track down the key than you do in the bathroom. I admit I will gladly use the wrong-sexed bathroom if that’s all that’s easily available. Of course germs and such archaic conventions as non-unisex bathrooms matter little to me.

Comment on Bathroom key by Grossed Out

Grossed Out — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:42:00 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree about the bathroom attendants who don’t actually keep the bathroom clean. This summer I ended up in a bathroom with one, walked into a stall, and immediately walked about again because someone had been sick all over. For some reason the bathroom attendant had not even closed off that stall, nor had she notified anyone else who worked there that it needed immediate attention. Aside from the disgustingness, that is a clear health threat to everyone else!!! If your job is really to just hand me a paper towel and soap, I’m going to start tipping you with a quarter instead of a dollar.