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BY MARK BROWN
Minor Annoyances Add Up To Big Beefs
JUNE 2015
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
Isn’t it peculiar how the little things can bother us to
distraction?
Recently, I was in a restaurant, and the place was so
cold I had to go out to my car and get a jacket. It wasn’t
simply cold in the restaurant; as we ate an arctic wind
blasted down on us.
We should have left, but didn’t have time to find another restaurant, wait to be seated, and then order. It just made
me wonder why they would keep their restaurant miserably
cold. I’ve been told that the people who work in restaurants
tend to feel warmer than their patrons, because they have
to rush around, run in and out of kitchens and carry hot
plates; so they all like to work in a restaurant that’s colder
than the customers would like.
OK, I get that. But, look guys, we are the customers,
you know, the goofballs who spend their hard-earned cash,
the money that you live on. Aren’t you supposed to do
things to please us?
Having your restaurant colder than your freezer doesn’t
make customers want to come back. Besides, it’s not
conducive to repeat business if the food gets cold before
the customers take that third bite.
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Annoyance No.2
We were watching television the other night, having a
nice time, didn’t DVR this particular show (which I almost
always do), so we had to sit through the commercials,
which by the way, seem to get longer and longer, but that’s
beside the point. About the third commercial in, they play
one about some acne product. Now, I have never been a
fan of commercials in general, and especially commercials
for medical drugs, they tend to have disclaimers a mile
long. They will say something like, “This drug is great for
treating some Irritable Athlete’s Foot Syndrome, but consult
your doctor, because if you’re pregnant or have high blood
pressure, allergies, or ears or feet or you breathe, there
could be some side effects; you may bleed from the nose
and ears, you could blow up like a balloon, your head
could explode, you might forget where you ƗfR