[merylsilverburg]

That makes the two of us, MAD...yes, I'm mad too (by the way, that really would piss me off too if someone had told me to just let go and write whatever I want only to tell me later that I should think about "toning down the violent imagery"...ugh...)

I'm mad mostly because of work-related irritations, but still makes me angry nonetheless.

Like, oh, this situation for example:

There's this group of Asians who come in. One of the guys orders first and I take this guy's order and hand back his change. I happen to have the new 2005 Minnesota quarters in my register and when I handed back his change, he saw it and showed his friend, whom I'm guessing, is fanatical about coin collecting. After looking at it, the fanatic gets this glaze/shine in his eyes and looks at me and says "After you take my order I would like to get quarters, okay?" Sure, no problem I thought to myself. Only here's the problem: this guy refuses to place his order with me only because I don't speak Mandarin. He places the order with my mom. My mom runs up to me and, instead of speaking to me in Taiwanese which I understand and she knows I do, she says to me in broken English, "He wants to order "House Beef" (Now before anyone reading this gets confused, she says "House Beef" only because, at the moment, she forgotten how to say "steak" so she says "House Beef" when she really meant to say "House Steak" which is our special dish that night. Now, we have another item on the menu that's called "House Special" but it's a soup with beef and most people say to me "House Special" when they want to order that dish. So, I thought my mom forgotten how to say "special" so when she say "beef" I thought she meant the "House Special" dish). So, I write down "House Beef" and charge the guy. Now, if he weren't such a dumbass or being so infactuated with getting his new 2005 quarter, he could've, oh I dunno, paid more attention to the price difference (the steak costs $7.99 and the special costs only $6.50) and oh, maybe just ordered from me in English. But no....after he gets his dish, all the while checking out his new quarter still...he comes ups a few moments later and asks my mom in his annoying meek voice (when he really isn't like that) "Um...is...that my steak that I ordered?" and my mom goes "Wait...that's not the steak you ordered?" and he goes "Uh...well...no...not exactly...I got this weird soup thing...I wanted steak" and my mom goes "Ohh...my daughter (me) must've heard it wrong"
Oh well, gee, thanks mom...so you can imagine the irritated glare I received from the guy after my mother said that. Now before any of you are ready to defend this guy saying stuff like "Oh, maybe he just doesn't know how to speak English that well" and all that, this guy speaks English just fine...because the chick he's desperately is trying to hook up with was ordering in English and he goes on and interrupts with "Don't forget, this place only takes cash, geez, I don't know a place where they don't accept credit card, that is just so stupid." Hmm...if you don't speak English that well, I don't think a person can spew out "stupid" and "geez" and any of the other words in a perfect English context.

So, the poor guy had to suffer with the wrong order and continues to glare and roll his eyes at me the whole entire time he was dining. What a night, not to mention the fact there were other annoying situations that I don't care to mention nor relive. This one just pissed me off.