Used to be about weaseling free stuff from Pizza Hut, now about more trifling matters
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May not qualify as a WTF, but still.
Decided to go to Pizza Hut bring to eat while I was working. While I was walking out of the store I realized I had not paid. I went back in and informed them. At first they told me that I had paid in cash. I was like umm ... no I didn't. I haven't paid. So they said ok and told me my total. While paying I asked if I could get a free Coca-Cola. Not that I felt I needed to be rewarded but it was the least they could of done. They would have been short on cash at the end of the night if I didn't speak up. I bet Taco Bell or McDonald's would have given me a free drink.
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You didn't pay for a thing you bought and then you went back and said "oops" and you expect them to give you free stuff?
TDEMSYR
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PlotTwist: You actually did pay before and to this date they have problems with accounting because there is too much money in the register...
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If you wanted free stuff, then why did you go back and force your money on the confused Pizza Hut employees?
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They insisted that I already paid. Almost didn't let me pay. I basically had to push them to take my money. I thought it would have been a kind gesture.
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I didn't even have any cash on me.
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Because I am an honest person
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Here's how this scenario played out in my mind:
@GigaBitWare: Haha! I have returned!!!
Pizza Hut Drone: Uh. What.
@GigaBitWare: It is I, GigaBitWare!!
Pizza Hut Drone: OK.
@GigaBitWare: I had a free pizza!
Pizza Hut Drone: Eh?
@GigaBitWare: My pizza, sir! I did not pay for it!
Pizza Hut Drone: Sure you did, sir.
@GigaBitWare: No, no, no! I did not, sir! *throws loose change at PHD*
Pizza Hut Drone: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave...
@GigaBitWare: To leave?! But why?!
Pizza Hut Drone: Sir...
@GigaBitWare: Very well, then. There is just the small matter of my free beverage?
Pizza Hut Drone: Uh-huh.
@GigaBitWare: You don't wish to reward me, your most honest of customers.
Pizza Hut Drone: You just ran back in here and started throwing loose change around...
@GigaBitWare: *runs to drinks dispenser, takes a sip directly out of the Coca-Cola spout'*
Pizza Hut Drone: Get out.
@GigaBitWare: GOOD DAY SIR! *runs out*
Pizza Hut Drone: Uhhhhhghh.....
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Did you online order? Because I'll bet you paid.
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It's missing a critical piece of information. (Did they give you the free drink?)
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TRWTF is trying to get a Coke from a place that's owned by Pepsi!
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TRWTF is trying to get a Coke from a place that's owned by Pepsi!
Coke is a synonym for "drink".
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Maybe in the deep south. I thought you were an aussie.
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Maybe in the deep south. I thought you were an aussie.
I was actually trying to be stupid because TDWTF. People really use Coke to mean any drink?
Also, see my hat!
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Nope.
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My hat is a QR code tophat.
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Maybe in the deep south. I thought you were an aussie.
You can't get much further south than that. (At least not that is actually inhabited to a meaningful extent.)
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You can't get much further south than that.
The name Australia is from the latin Terra Australis, land of the south. If I remember right your latin is quite good so you probably know this already.
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The Deep South is north of South America.
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The West and the East both have Eastern and Western sides, so the Westernmost point of the East is going to be closest to the Easternmost point of the West. Either that, or the Earth is actually flat, and we'd just fall off the edge if we tried to go from one to the other...
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But the midwest is between the easternmost east and the westernmost west. The middle east is too, but it's on the other side.
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I'm in the West, but on your drawing I'm south of "The East".
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You actually did pay before and to this date they have problems with accounting because there is too much money in the register...
I actually had a (minor, in the end) bank issue many many years ago when my dad went to deposit some cash in my account. The transactions was entered, and shortly thereafter voided for some reason.
We went in a week or two later after noticing to clear it up; they were able to pull up the register records for that day and see that they were over by that amount on that day.
The Deep South is north of South America.
More a response to the map, and barely a response to that, but for a long time (and even occasionally now!) my brain's sense of east-west would always break when looking at a map of Europe or Asia. I am pretty sure that instead of learning "east = right", for some reason my brain built a mental model where "east = towards the Atlantic" and "west = towards the Pacific" and reverted to that model when the oceans were visible.
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At least most countries can agree that north is up on a map.
most.
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At least most countries can agree that north is up on a map.
That also rather depends on the projection. North is not at the top of this map, despite it having come from a country that "agrees north is up on a map."
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Have you ever liked circles so much that you cut the entire continent of Africa in half?
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Stupid eurocentric maps you think north is the top just because you're on top, Australia is the top mate!
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cut the entire continent of Africa in half
Just about any attempt to map the (approximately) spherical surface of the Earth onto a flat two-dimensional surface cuts something somewhere. (The only one I can think of off-hand that doesn't so distorts shapes that a single point — typically, the South Pole — is stretched to become the entire perimeter of the map.) Often the cutting can be done mostly or entirely through water. However, in this case the cartographer chose to project the Northern and Southern Hemispheres individually, necessitating cutting along the Equator. The Equator passes through both Africa and South America. Technically, South America is also cut in half1, with the two pieces touching at only a single infinitesimal point. He could have chosen to touch the pieces of Africa and separate those of South America instead. Would that have made you happy?
1 Not half; the pieces are clearly of unequal size. The same is true of Africa.
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Crazy Aussies. The blood rushing to their heads from hanging upside-down off the bottom of the world does some serious damage.
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the midwest is between the easternmost east and the westernmost west
And Northwestern University is just north of Chicago, which isn't really north or west... but it was by the northwestern frontier of the U.S. at one time.
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Coke is a synonym for "drink".
Colloquially, maybe, but :wavy_lines: when I worked at McD's and they had their own cola before they started using Cola-Cola, staff on the tills were required to say "that's McDonald's cola..." if someone asked for "coke" or "pepsi"
Also, see my hat!
It's missing some corks
</stereotype type="casual">.
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Maybe in the deep south. I thought you were an aussie.
You can't get much further south than that. (At least not that is actually inhabited to a meaningful extent.)
You call this uninhabited?
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The waddling
thread is this way: 
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Coke is what is owned by Coca-Cola company. On the other hand a coke, or cola is a colloquial for the caramel colored bubbly stuff that dissolves teeth.
I'm usually a nice guy at the register, but when the store charge me the medium size (500ml) price for a case of the large size (633ml) beer, I kept my mouth shut. Plus I think they already slid the credit card through, and canceling that is usually a PITA.
The Pizza Hut I went to as a kid would always have deals for 2-liters of Pepsi included with the pizza. No coupon or anything required. I'd be surprised if they couldn't just punch something into the register and hand you one.
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You could order for collection then take it into the restaurant?
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You could order for collection then take it into the restaurant?
Dare you order for delivery, then follow the delivery driver back to the restaurant and take it in?
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Go in store, order for delivery, ask the driver to give you a lift. Sometimes cheaper than a taxi (especially if you wanted a pizza anyway)
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45 posts in and I still don't know if GigaBitWare got the free drink or not.
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From the story, I'm pretty confident he didn't. This seems like a new setting today, though. Not terribly aggressive, but unwilling to make obvious conclusions. Not sure what it should be labeled.
Stubbornly Obtuse?
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From the story, I'm pretty confident he didn't.
So am I.
But I'd hardly be in a position to complain about people finding unspoken "implications" in my writing if I did it to other people. So I don't.
The story is missing a critical detail that makes judging whether it was a WTF or not impossible. And I'm calling him out.
It doesn't help that yesterday we covered like 47 things on this forum that were all the result of fucking terrible "requires psychic skills" communication, and I hate that shit.
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The story is missing a critical detail that makes judging whether it was a WTF or not impossible.
It's pretty obviously not.
And I'm calling
him outattention to myself.FTFY
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It's pretty obviously not.
Ah well fortunately I don't give a shit what you think.
FTFY
I wouldn't have to if he'd answered the first time I asked yesterday.
