Yes, yes, I know....
Ok, this is a silly little peeve of mine, but it's something that I noticed a few years ago and it shows no signs of relenting. I'm talking about signing the credit card receipt.
I've had credit cards for what, 20 years now? Longer? How about you? How long have you been using credit cards routinely? A long time, I'll bet. So,
why do clerks at stores, restaurants, and just about everywhere else think they need to tell me to sign the receipt? Can they
possibly believe that this transaction is my very first with a credit card and I don't know that I have to sign the receipt? Do I look
that naive??
Like I said, it's a small peeve, but I'll bet you think of it next time someone hands you the receipt and tells you that you need to sign it!
Labels: pet peeves
Waffle House
One of our stranger family traditions is to have breakfast at
Waffle House on Thanksgiving and Christmas mornings. We also go there a few other times a year, but the "for sure" days are those two.
One might expect a rather surly staff to be working those mornings, grumpy because they aren't home with their families and basically taking it out on the customers. NOT SO! Even on those special days, we are greeted with a hearty "Hello!" and treated as welcome friends by the staff.
It would be easy to drive by Waffle House in search of the next Bob Evans, or take seriously the jabs at "Awful House," but we have yet to have a bad experience with ANY Waffle House. The food is good and filling, and the prices are very reasonable.
Waffle House: highly recommended!
Labels: good service
Custom Framing
I take a lot of pictures, and the best of them get framed and hung in the office or home. As anyone that has had custom framing done can tell you, it is both expensive and slow. It can take a couple of weeks to get the framed photo back, and easily cost in excess of $100 for even the smallest, simplest framing job.
Enter
HobbyLobby. Every custom frame in my house comes from HobbyLobby. It is the rule rather than the exception for their custom framing to be 50% at any given time, and that's 50% an already relatively low price. I can typically frame a 16" x 20" picture, with a mat and glare free glass, for under $50, and they will do it while I wait! My last framing job was two 13" x 19" photos matted into 18" x 24" frames, and it only took 20 minutes. The total cost for both was under $70. The people working there are always pleasant and cheerful, and I never fail to have an excellent experience there.
HobbyLobby: Highly recommended!
Labels: good service
