rants and raves

daylenbrinkley asked: If you could get rid of any one thing in the world, what would it be?

stupid people, I would get rid of stupid people

I work at Starbucks in a target, super love it, great place to work, and I work with some great people… but I haven’t ranted in a while and feel it necessary sooooooo here. we. go. Being a Starbucks we almost always have a massive line, so I’m gonna start with my first annoyance… if we’re trying to get through these orders quickly don’t be coming up with your coffee order AND 25 items for us to check out as well, we are not an express check out lane for you to take advantage of so that you can skip a couple lines… you’re making me pause to scan your every item and weigh your freaking banana’s… no thanks

Another annoyance… you don’t need to tell me that a venti iced vanilla latte has 3 espresso shots… I know this… it’s what I was trained to do, I swear I have people who come in all the time that act like I have no idea how to make their drink “I want you to double the pumps of white mocha that come in the tall, which would be 6.” no way? thanks for educating me on the job I was trained to do and know like a second language… so thank you for enlightening me. It’s the worst with a cappuccino, I swear they have to watch you when you pour the milk and then the foam to make sure it’s perfect. Every time a guest corrects me on how I’m not making their drink correctly, I feel like politely asking them if they would prefer to make it themselves, but that probably wouldn’t work out too well. WE’RE NOT STUPID! 

Third annoyance… don’t get angry when we run out of coffee or half and half, we have a bajillion people coming through all the time, and we’ll brew you a fresh pot in 5 to 7 minutes, so stop being so impatient. I swear people think that we live and breathe their coffee orders… if you are inconvenienced by us not having your coffee, or if we’re out of something, or we have a line of other people, feel free to leave, because just so you know… YOU came to us, we didn’t knock on your door and say “hey, how can we inconvenience you today?! :D”

high schoolers and their frappacchino orders…. after school every day we have massive line of high schoolers who think their cool for drinking coffee in the form of a frappacchino. A vanilla bean, or a double chocolaty chip, doesn’t have coffee in it, you’re not getting your coffee fix, silly child.

DON’T HAND ME A WAD OF CASH! If I tell you that your total is $10.00, don’t hand me a crumpled up five dollar bill and a wad of ones… because now instead of getting your drink done, I’m straightening out your dollar bills so that they can be put in my drawer… so you just added about 5 extra unnecessary minutes to your waiting, good job! 

Last, but probably most annoying, “Can I pay with my EBT card?” you’re serious right now? you’re using your food stamps for Starbucks coffee… I’m so happy that the government is helping you out with your coffee fix, instead of feeding your family. 

……. the end

Dear customers, we love you, but we hate you more. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about something that annoys me but I feel that’s it is time for a post so what better to rant about than customers? I work in an ice cream shop on the beach, and I am blessed to have that job, we’re almost always busy unless it’s raining. But ,I’m pretty sure that half of our customers think that they’re the only customers we get, and they’re still rude, picky, and take forever to pick what they want. So here we go…
Number one, if you’ve been standing in line for over 15 min and you still have no clue what you want when you get to my window, MOVE. Especially when it’s a massive family. Sweet baby Jesus I want to punch you in the mouth, it’s ice cream, not your future home. So pick and move on, there are 10 other families behind you and I’d really love to go home sometime tonight.
Number two, if I have three cones in my hand and am in the middle of scooping some ice cream, don’t bang on my window to give you a napkin, is it really that hard to see that I have things that I’m doing? Why do customers think that we have 4 hands? “excuse me, I see that you are clearly in the middle of something and you have 4 ice creams in your hand but I need a napkin and I need it now, so chop chop” its annoying and it makes me want to smash your face into my window. I also hate when I’m in the middle of taking someone’s order and someone from behind them interrupts to ask for a spoon and a bowl because their two scoop cone is melting faster than they can eat it. Am I not talking to this customer right here? Do you not see them? No I am not going to stop and get you something that you so desperately need, you can wait two seconds…
Number three, hey I don’t know if you know this or not, but ice cream is cold and it melts when it’s out in the humid florida air, so don’t be surprised by the artwork on your hands and arms because you ordered two scoops on a regular cake cone and now it’s melting all over you. I constantly have people asking me for bowls and spoons at the most inconvenient times. And it’s like the customer doesn’t even care, I am doing something! You should have ordered a cup if you had used your itty bitty little brain of yours and realized that you couldn’t lick it as fast as the ice cream melts. Is it so hard to think a little?
Number four, don’t hand me your trash through the window for me to throw out for you, you can walk two steps and throw it out yourself, that’s what we put them out there for! Amazing huh?
Number five, bang on my window one more time and see what happens… I see you! I check the window every thirty seconds for customers while I do my other duties in the shop, if you’ve been standing there for a whole 30 seconds, just wait longer, I will eventually see you and take your order. But as soon as you bang on my window, I will pretend that I don’t see you and I will take my sweet precious time because you now pissed me off, so good job.
Number six, if your ice cream came out over $20, tip. Because if you don’t, we will spit in your ice cream. We have to feed the kids too…
Number seven, when you’re done ordering and I tell you that it’ll be up at the next window, don’t smash your face up on the glass to see what we’re doing, it’s not that spectacular. Also if there were people in front of you, don’t stand right in the window, other people ordered before you, we didn’t skip people so that you could get your ice cream faster.
Number eight, when customers start off their order with “I need…” you don’t need ice cream, pretty sure you could live without it.
Number nine, when we’re handing out your massive $600 order, we don’t make it all at once, so when I hand out your first two cones and you tell me, “oh we’re missing 5 more ice creams, a shake, and a flurry” I kinda want to hit you… They’re being made! Calm down, go for a run in the mean time, you need to work off the calories that you’re about to consume anyway…
Number ten, don’t give me an attitude if I can’t understand your accent… Or the mouse voice that you’re speaking in…. We have 5 freezers, a soft serve machine, and a fryer going in here. SPEAK UP.
I’m not bitter, no, never.

ummmm, were any of you raised to be the pursuer? Girls want to be pursued. We don’t want to be flirted with and then ignored because we didn’t make the first move. Guys it’s your job to ask us out. The most unattractive thing is when you wait for us to make the first move. It gives the impression that you’re a coward. Seriously what’s the worse that the girl could say, “no,” ? It happens all the time. But seriously if you treated her like the lady that she is, she would probably be head over heels and wouldn’t know any other answer but “yes!” But you guys just hint around, and it’s annoying because if you just asked us out, we might just give you a chance because  you gave an effort! I’m sick of guys hinting around that they like me but they never do anything about it. But what they don’t know is that I would probably give them a chance if they just asked and if they showed me enough respect to ask me instead of hinting around and expecting me to make the first move and set up the first date. It doesn’t work for us that way. So boys, become a man and ask her out!

See, this kinda stuff drives me crazy….. I understand love and heart break because I have gone through it. But just because you don’t have a so called boo to complete you, doesn’t mean that life stops. I feel so bad for the girls who only post stuff like this, about their hearts breaking and how their lives will never be the same because their one true love doesn’t love them anymore. Girls, I promise you that life eventually goes on. I’m not saying it won’t hurt, because trust me… It’ll hurt. But life doesn’t end there. You have so much life ahead of you, take advantage of it. just be happy, because if you’re happy to be alive, good days become of it. Life is so much more than crying over a boy. Smile, because you are so worth it and no matter how many stupid boys break your heart, you will always have the generous and comforting love of Jesus Christ. In the book I’m studying right now entitled “Lady in Waiting,” it explained to me a new way of thinking. It said that, “a man doesn’t complete you, only God completes you, man was made to compliment you.” and it’s seriously so true. A guy will not complete you, because he will fail you, and you will fail him, therefore he compliments you. God completes you because He will never let you down. So relax, be happy, He knows what He’s doing. So stop worrying about your next relationship and focus on the only one that can truly satisfy you

At what point do you stop hurting others? At what point do you stop and realize that the ones that love you most are the ones you hurt the most? At what point did you think it was ok to throw sex around like it’s nothing, like it wasn’t something God created to be between a man and a women in a marriage. At what point did we stop thinking about others and only think about ourselves? At what point did we think it was acceptable to think of ourselves as “better” than a certain person? At what point did we stop doing things just because? At what point did people loose respect for themselves? At what point did the world think that it was ok to destroy what being a human being should be all about? At what point are we going to stop and realize that there is purpose for our life? At what point are we going to stop feeling sorry for ourselves? At what point are we going to look past our troubles and look upon our blessings? At what point did God leave the picture? Do we care? Or are we only consumed by ourselves and things of this world…. I don’t get it, Maybe because I’m not supposed to.

Hello all you beautiful people… Today I’m going to talk about how much I freaking hate, despise, and dislike “Relationships…..” don’t get me wrong, I’m all for true love and the mushy gushy movies and junk but when you’ve been together for less than 28 hours…. You’re not in love!!!! You’re like 12 years old…. Please grow up. Because when you constantly write on each others Facebook walls about how much you love each other, there are other people reading the posts and jabbing pencils into their eyeballs!!! We don’t care how much you think you love each other…. We don’t care that you’re wearing his sweatshirt, because honestly, honey…. If you love each other sooooooooo freaking much…. Then get married, delete your facebooks and move to Alaska…. even if you’re only 14, and still in middle school…. Just do it, and save us all from your obnoxious make me want to throw up, posts. But hey, maybe you are madly in love, I guess it’s possible after 3 minutes of knowing each other, right? “I love you so much baby doll pumpkin roll cupcake boo bear dumpling.” hsbdhdbjebridbriendirbebdidbrhdbdue
Keep your posts off of Facebook…. Truly all of us single people do not care….. And I’m. Not. Bitter.

I seriously hate it when I ask someone how they’re doing with all compassion in the world and their responce is “I’m fine,” when you can clearly tell that they are dying inside. I’m guilty of that too, but sometimes I wish that people would be honest with their response. I want people to know that I really do care about how they are doing, people shouldn’t have to hide their feelings. I also hate when I tell someone “I’m sorry,” and their response is, “it’s ok, not your fault.” and how they get annoyed that you feel sorry for them. Seriously, what else am I supposed to say??!?!?!?! “hah, sucks to be you.” “can’t say that I’m jealous.” it’s ok for someone to care about you, so if someone is willing, let them.

oh wow, DRAMA QUEENS, let me tell you all about them. I cared about your foot the first time it hurt, but after 2 years of hearing you complain about the same foot pain, it get’s old…. girls who freak out over the dumbest thing, “oh my gosh, I wanted brown, this is black/brown.” GET OVER IT, and get over yourself. Our world does not revolve around you, even though you wish it did. If it’s only been a day since you’ve seen a person, it is not ok to sprint, skip, and scream to get to that person. It’s been 12 hours since you’ve seen them and I want to jab you in the eye with a pencil. I had a girl in my English class create a website about herself…. really? You’re not that great. I really am not a big fan of girls, sometimes I can’t stand myself. That’s why my best friend is a guy.

: the state or fact of being ignorant : lack of knowledge, education, or awareness. Why are there so many ignorant parents in this world? Today I went to an Amusement park called Bush Gardens, which is a blog in itself. But I wanted to specify the biggest annoyance of all time (well to me.) ignorance. Today I observed many different ways of how a lot of parents are ignorant. I often wonder if they would realize that if they just tried a little harder in their parenting, that well maybe their kids might not turn out to be brats. Just a thought. Myself and my family ate lunch at a cute cafe’ in Bush Gardens today. As I sat at a table and waited for my parents and sister to get food, I observed a family close by. This little boy around 10 was feeding the birds. Well at first I was like… Ok, no big deal, just a little food, and then the amounts started getting larger and larger, until what I thought could have been this boy’s entire lunch on the floor that he had given to this bird, in huge pieces that, the bird could have easily chocked on. I watched as the parents paid zero attention to their kid, and that when they did, it was an occasional “stop,” but not a stern “stop” a yeah whatever “stop,” they were just annoyed and didn’t want to have to inconvenience their lovely day, so they just sat there. Looking like ignorant pushovers because well that’s what they were, and so that’s what the kid is going to see. Parents need to realize that it is not ok to be a pushover. Don’t pretend to be ignorant in a stupid situation that you would rather not touch because you might just have to put some effort into disciplining your child. Your child will always continue to push you around if you let them, and discipline is not always fun, but if you want your kids to listen. Stop being ignorant, and put some effort into your parenting.