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Post by Fickle81 on Nov 2, 2008 18:28:09 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
People pronouncing certain words in ways that the words aren't supposed to be pronounced. There are major well known examples of this and there are only slightly known examples of this. Before I get to probably the biggest example of this in history,heres one of those minor examples that I've been hearing a lot lately...people pronouncing the word "restaurant" as "restrent"...what in the fuck is that? It's as if the first a,the u,and the second a in the word don't exist to these people. It seems to be mostly elderly people that use this pronunciation,so it's somewhat forgivable because it's probably some brain defect from age thats affecting their speech,but for anybody NOT in this catagory it's not forgiveable at all...it's annoying and needs to cease.
Now for the big one...the infamous potato/potahto tomato/tomoto debate...hell,it's such a well known discrepency that theres even a song dedicated to it..."You like potato and I like potahto,you like tomato and I like tomoto,lets call the whole thing off." No,lets NOT call the whole thing off,and instead why don't YOU pronounce the words like most normal people pronounce them,which is potato and tomato...it's not that hard,just pronounce them the way they're spelled and don't put any other letters in the words that aren't supposed to be there in order to use your dumb alternate pronunciation,like an h in potato (which makes the "ah" sound) or an extra o in tomato where the a should be (which makes the "moto" sound). The only people that use this alternate pronunciation are people in the British Isles and SOME Southern Americans,in their in such a minority that they don't matter,so they might as well conform to the proper pronunciation like everybody else and stop being so fucking agitating.
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Post by Fickle81 on Nov 2, 2008 18:29:17 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
Asshole cameramen that talk during a porn video shoot and try to be a indirectly direct part of it. Just because I subconciously know a porno is shot with a camera(s) by people in the room doesn't mean I want the illusion of mood disrupted,assholes! If you wanted to be part of the action in any way,you should have thought about becoming a porn star yourself instead of a cameraman...but then again,the reason why you're a camera man is probably cause you didn't have the skills nor pack the gear/have the equipment to be a pornstar so you had to seattle for being a cameraman. Sorry,but your personal flaws don't entitle you to be actually be a part of whats in front of the camera from behind the camera of the shoot...so just shut the fuck up,do your job,and film the sex as if the partisapants are doing it in an intimate,private,and natural setting.
But it doesn't end with just the camera guys talking. In some porn videos,you'll occationally see and hear the flash bulbs from asshole cameramen taking still images of the sex to put on websites. Again,just like with the talking,seeing that directly confirms that there is somebody else in the room for porn distribution purposes,which breaks and mood and feel of authentic sex which directly interferes with arousal (at least for me). Whats particularly infuriating about this is that it's easily avoidable...either take snapshots in a recreated photoshoot session or use a digital snapshot camera without flash bulbs (I don't even know why you need a flashbulb anyway seeing as how most porn videos are ADEQUITLY AND PROFESSIONALLY LIT). Stop ruining potentially great porn action with that shit.
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Post by Fickle81 on Nov 2, 2008 18:29:23 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
Filling out government forms for something like getting a student loan (which requires you to fill out something called the Free Application for Federal Aid,or FAFSA for short) or applying to be a part of a government institution (like say,applying for a position as a security screener for the TSA,which requires you to fill out whats known as an eQIP SF86 to allow the government to do a background investigation of you). Now,I understand that since it's the government that a little bit of extensive background information is required,but holy fucking shit do they ever take it too far.
At least one of the government form examples I've given (most likely the SF86),or perhaps both,requires you to list EVERY SINGLE address you've lived throughout YOUR ENTIRE LIFE...when I was a young child,around 4 or 5,I lived in Florida for about a year or 2,so since I was that fucking young when I lived there to the point where I barely even remember ANY of it,how in the hell do they expect me to remember the full address for where I lived there? Hell,my father was the one that moved us out there in the first place and EVEN HE doesn't remember the exact fucking address for the place that we lived in when we were down there.
Another example is that forms like this usually want you to list all previous places of employment from anywhere in the past 7 to even 10 years...what the fuck? I could understand maybe in the past 5 years,but 7 or even 10? Don't you think thats a tad excessive? I mean,my first job was being a janitor for a contract janitorial company that had a contract with this insolation warehouse/office building...the only reason I even still remembered the janitorial company is because I was able to track down an old W2 form,and even that didn't give me all the information the form was asking for,such as telephone numbers and the name of my supervisor which I had LONG forgotten,and it DAMN SURE didn't give me any information about the seperate insolation warehouse/office building to wit I've LONG forgotten the name for and never even fucking knew the address (my mother always drove me there,so I didn't have to know). It's as if they assume of expect that I'm keeping every single fucking paystub and W2 I've ever gotten,even if they're from many years ago and therefore no longer matter in the present time. Hell,I don't even know if EITHER of the aforementioned companies are even in business anymore seeing as how it was so damn long ago. Oh,and if there is a time period in those 7-10 years that you are unemployed,you have to list the EXACT period (meaning specific dates) in which you were unemployed. Give me a fucking break man.
And yet another example is that they require personal information,such as home address and home telephone numbers,for human references that knew you during times you were going to certain educational facilities (high school,college,etc)...are you fucking kidding me? What if I wasn't close enough to the individuals I list as references that knew me when going to these schools to the point where I would know their personal information (and as it turned out,I wasn't for my college reference)? Did you schmucks that came up with these ridiculous form information requirements ever considered that? I doubt it.
I could go on,but I think I've made my point quite adequitly. They really do expect you to waste precious time out of your day to extensivly research all this personal shit,some of which you probably won't be able to find no matter how deeply you look into it. I mean,with how extensive they get with this shit,I'm surprised they don't make you calculate the average amount of naps you've taken a year based on the amount in each month for the past 10 years...or exactly how many months/weeks/days/hours it's been since the last time you had a bout of diarrhea before returning to normal solid bowel movements. Nobody is expected to remember any of that shit,just like nobody is expected to remember some of the personal shit (some of which date back so long ago that they don't even seem relevent) they ask for on these overly intricate forms. Knock that shit off and give me forms that can be completed with a minimal amount of effort and time.
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Post by Fickle81 on Nov 2, 2008 18:30:56 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
This trend of putting extreme restrictions on unregistered guests that read messageboards. I've hinted at this before when I mentioned not being able to use BD's search feature without logging into a registered account first,but this isn't the only case of something like this that I've experienced. It pains me to say this cause I enjoy the board,but I See Dead has become one of the most restrictive sites when it comes to this,with only Fangoria and Ite's Saloon messageboards,which don't even allow you to READ any posts or access any of the forums without registering an account,being more restrictive. Fucking ISD not only doesn't let you use the search feature without being a registered member,but it also doesn't allow you to access member profiles,search the number of posts a member has made,or even access the member list to see how many registered users there are...and what makes this all even more fucked up is that before I was banned,unresgistered users were allowed to access all of this. What the fuck changed and why?
Seriously what is the fucking point of all these stupid bullshit restrictions? Logically,it would have to be some sort of security issue because what other reason could there be? And what possible security issue exists with unregistered users using the search feature or accessing a board member profile? Would could they possibly do? They would have to register an account just to be able to ATTEMPT to do anything. Really,what is the purpose? Do you really think that shit makes the board inviting? Cause I love to be the bearer of bad news,but it does just the opposite.
Lets say I'm reading a board and I decide to search for a thread or posts about a particular subject that really interests me to seal the deal and motivate me to register an account on said board...then when I try to use the search feature to do this,it tells me that I need to login/be a registered member in order to use this fundemental search feature. What do you think is gonna happen? Do you seriously expect me to waste my time combing through pages of forums hoping to find the particular thread/posts dedicated to the subject I'm looking for,or do you just expect me to take the plunge and make an account just to be able to find out if there is a thread or posts dedicated to the subject that I was gonna use to make the decision to join in the first place HOPING that I do indeed find it (cause I wouldn't feel comfortable creating a thread for it if it didn't exist until I got some response posts under my belt)?
I mean it really pains me to say this,but fucking Dreamin Demon doesn't have any of these problems at all...I can freely use the search feature,access member profiles,and more WITHOUT having to be a registered member. Why is it that they do it but a lot of other boards I've been to don't? The only things that NEED a created account are for posting and accessing some of the board's more complex features,such as the arcade or flash/java chat rooms (but even with some flash/java chat rooms,like mine for example,you don't need to be a registered member of the board to use)...not fucking basic standard features like forum searching and access to member lists,profiles,and number of posts. I can't be the only one that gets annoyed by not being able to use these basic features which would cause me to decide to pass on joining the board...but if you wanna continue to lose potential registered users,I guess thats on you.
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Post by Fickle81 on Nov 2, 2008 18:31:45 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
The plastic wrap method that grocery stores (my local Krogers at least) use to contain heads of lettuce. They sell you heads of lettuce in plastic with the twisted up thread taped to the large body of plastic so that the lettuce doesn't fall out and is secure inside the plastic. Thats great and all,but heres the problem...because it's taped to the plastic,theres an extremely high probability that removing the tape will cause the plastic to rip,which means that the plastic used to house the lettuce will no longer work when storing in the refridgerator,which means that you'll have to find something else,like say,a large ziplock bag that it will BARELY even fit into in the first place,which means you'll have to struggle and fight with the lettuce in order to get it in AND out of the ziplock bag.
And as if the fact that grocery stores use tape on plastic at all wasn't bad enough,guess what? They use CLEAR tape,which blends in so well with the plastic that you likely won't be able to tell where the tape begins and where it ends. Utterly fucking brillient...exactly just what is the fucking point of using clear tape to seal the plastic anyway? Is there some sort of need for child/idiot proofing of the lettuce that I'm not aware of,or do you think your customers want to spend their precious time trying to find the tape on the plastic to peel it off like it's some kind of Wheres Waldo-esque game? Cause all thats gonna do is frustrate us to the point where we'll either rip the plastic up by hand or with scissors to the point where we won't be able to use it to store in the fridge,so we'll have to find something else that will most likely not be completely adequite to the point where we'll have to fight and struggle to cram the lettuce in,pissing us off even more.
I mean,if you ABSOLUTLY MUST use tape,AT LEAST use a fucking tape that isn't the same color as the plastic so customers will at least be able to SEE where the tape actually is...but guess what? You don't even need to fucking use ANY tape,cause I've got a simple solution to the problem. Since there is a twisted up thread part of the plastic like you'd find in the plastic that houses bread,hamburger and hotdog buns,heres an idea for ya...just use one of those twisty pins that are use to seal the loafs of bread...or better yet,one of those small hard plastic close pin thingies that are also used to seal loafs of bread if the twisty pins aren't used...problem solved,ditch the motherfucking tape already.
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Post by Fickle81 on Jan 1, 2009 17:21:53 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
Automated things...particularly,everyday things we use with "automated" sensors in them. Most of the time they don't fucking work like they're designed to. The 2 biggest examples of this automatic urinals and sinks. Sometimes when you step up to an automatic urinal to take a nice releving piss,the urinal flushes eventhough it's not supposed to do that until you STEP AWAY from it...and sometimes when you step away from it,it doesn't fucking flush. Thankfully people have gotten wise and have start putting a flushing button along with the sensor just in case the sensor doesn't work right.
Oh,but the sinks are the absolute worst...you have to pratically hold your hand over the damn sensor to get it to work for only a few seconds before it shuts off again. It's bad enough that I have to hold one of my soaped up hands right up to the sensor and delay getting the soap washed off of it,but the fucking thing shutting off midway through DISPITE the fact that I have my hand right in front of the sensor where it's supposed to be in order to make it work is utter bullshit of the highest infuriating magnitude. And whats worse is you can never really control the temperature of the water.
Bullshit like this just proves that using advanced technology to make things seemingly more convienent isn't always the best idea cause most of the time it won't even work right,cause more headaches than convienence,and show that you could have just turned a handle or pushed a flusher in the time you spent fucking around with the automatic shit. Stop trying to promote a society of lazy ass sloths and just do things manually like they're supposed to.
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Post by Fickle81 on Sept 20, 2009 10:35:54 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
Hotel housekeeping service...these assholes just won't take no for an answer...not to mention that a good majority of the time,the housekeeping employees are foreign,which means you can barely understand their broken grasp of English whenever you tell them to go away. What piece of shit asshole motherfucker came up with the universal hotel policy for the housekeeping department to disturb their own guests,who are PAYING CUSTOMERS,on a constant basis with their bullshit? I was in a hotel room with my girlfriend 2 weeks ago (oh yea,we interupt this rant to bring you a special bulletin...I have a girlfriend...those that were so convinced that I was a virgin and/or would never have a girlfriend because how I carry myself and my attitude probably shouldn't read that last part and this next part coming up) and we were lying in bed together with no cloths on. There was a knock at the door promptly followed by the individual identifying themself as a housekeeping employee. I told them in a stern,want to be left alone type of voice that "we're fine"...so then what does the stupid bitch do? She starts to open the fucking door,causing me and my girl to quickly cover up in a panic. This situation was even more bullshit for 2 reasons:
#1:This was NOT a foreign person so there was no language excuse. #2:There was a FUCKING "DO NOT DISTURB" LABEL ON THE FUCKING DOORKNOB!!
Seriously,you've either got to be a fucking retard or a complete inconsiderate fuckbag to utterly bypass a sign like that to fuck with paying customer's privacy. I'm glad my girlfriend got a laugh out of it,but I was moritifed and pissed. The next time a housekeeping employee pulls some shit like that,male OR female,god fucking help them because I'm gonna light their asses up...and if their foreign,I'm gonna be making a little phone call cause I'm sure immagration would have a field day with them.
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Post by Fickle81 on Nov 29, 2009 4:27:22 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
Taxi drivers giving you business cards with their own personal cellphone numbers on them. Now you may be thinking what exactly the problem with that is...afterall,they're just trying to increase their quota and/or make extra money...I've got no problem with that and what they're doing sounds like a good idea in theory. However,there's just 1 problem...in all the cases in which drivers have given me these business cards,the number to the actual taxi service company is NOWHERE on there. Gee,thats just wonderful...so what if I need a cab and happen to call you when you're not on shift (yes,I'm speaking from personal experience). I end up looking like a jackass and YOUR dumbass has to give me the taxi service's number anydamnway. If it was on there in the first place,I wouldn't have any problem with it...but then again,if it WAS on there to begin with,there would be no need to call the individual driver,now would there? And that's why they don't put it on there.
Last time I checked,I'm not fucking psychic (eventhough I often display ahead of the curve powers of perception that make it look like I am...man,I just came at how awsome that sounded while rereading it and how self satisfying it was,but back on topic) so how the hell am I supposed to know when you're on shift and when you aren't? Way I see it,since they would rather give me just THEIR number as opposed to the cab service number with no indication or idea as to when their shift scheduals are as if I can call them anytime,they should have no problem taking time out of their day off to drive me somewhere. Either that,or how bout just give me the number to the taxi company and just hope that you're my driver? The way I see it,me not getting annoyed is more important than you making a few extra bucks...and if you think I'm being a prick for thinking like that,I don't care...flutter tongue my dick.
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Post by Fickle81 on Feb 27, 2010 4:53:53 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
I was walking around the Seattle airport the day after Christmas (I was there to visit my girlfriend),looking for a vending machine so I can get something to drink...what I found was your average vending machine that sold your typical 20oz bottles of pop...typical except for the fact that it cost fucking $3.50 for one of these bottles! Why is it everything in airports is so expensive? Who's brillient idea was it to follow the Woodstock 99 economic model? Cause afterall,using said economics of overcharging people on items that are nomally 2 times cheaper has NEVER aggrivated the fuck out of people to the point where they resort to doing rash things like rioting,right? ...Right?
I guess these douchebags think that they can overcharge people on everything they sell because a lot of times, people will have to be stuck at the airport for long periods of time on things like layovers,so they've got these people by the balls,especially when it comes to food. Well I say FUCK THAT! Next time you're planning a trip,do some research to see if there are restaurants nearby that you could hit up instead of giving your money to these overcharging greedy fucks...and if there aren't any,then bring your own food in your carry on. Show these assholes that you're not gonna put up with their bullshit and hit them in their wallets where it REALLY hurts.
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Post by Fickle81 on Feb 27, 2010 4:55:03 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
People who play music loud music in an enclosed area for everybody to hear. Hey assholes,I'm not sure if you're aware of this little nifty invention known as "headphones",so allow me to tell you about them. They are these devices that you wear over your head,with speakers over your ears,that you plug into whatever source you're using to play your music,and what these things do is only allow YOU to hear this music or whatever sound(s) you're playing so that everybody else around you doesn't have to be subjected to listening to whatever it is you're listening to. I know,it's awsome ain't it? It's just so fucking great how far we've come with technology.
I mean what on earth motivates these people to think that everybody around them wants to listen to what most of the time is crap? Most of these individuals seem to do this when they're listening to Country music...it's as if they know the hated reputation Country music has,so they're gonna force other people to listen to and like it. Wrong answer,fuckhead...not only does this make me hate Country EVEN MORE,but it makes me want to beat the everloving fuck out of you...but instead,since they think I wanna listen to their music,I automatically assume they wanna listen to mine,so I just unplug my headphones and drown out their crap with my kickass music...which usually results in them getting the message and shutting their shit off,but not while sending me an evil glare. What are you looking at fuckstick? It ain't MY fault that I you had to learn a lesson in humility,respect,and consideration of others...that's why you don't see me playing the music I'm listening to without headphones even if it's something good,cause what if there are people in the room who aren't in the mood to listen to any music,are trying to concentrate on something,or even trying to fucking sleep?
Oh,but it doesn't end there...the most common form of this bullshit is when you're at a stop light in your car and you're next to some douchenozzle who is blaring rap through their $896,000 bassed out speaker system. Usually this is when you can try to give them a taste of their own medicine and blare YOUR music even louder,but usually when you're going up against a $4,692,000 tricked out sound system,you're not gonna win...so that's when you take their liscense number,call the police,and HOPE that a cop car pulls them over when they're still polluting the city with their rap music through their $8,234,000,000 subwolfer system and gives them a nice big fat ticket (too bad they don't automatically confiscate their $5,867,543,000,000 sound rig).
I swear,the level of inconsideration that human beings are capable of are murder inducing.
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Post by Fickle81 on Feb 27, 2010 4:56:33 GMT -5
You know what I have a beef with?
People who leave shopping carts in the parking spaces of the parking lot of grocery stores...and most of the time when these cocksuckers do this,the goddamn shopping cart dropoff area is 10 feet or LESS away from the parking space they leave it in. Are you fucking telling me that people are so goddamn lazy that they can't walk a few measley feet to leave the shopping cart in the right place? Oh no,it's a MUCH better idea to just leave it right smack dab in the middle of the parking spot so they can inconvienence the next person who will try to pull into said spot. Hell,I've sometimes seen this happen with parking spots that are LITTERALLY RIGHT NEXT TO the cart dropoff area!
MAYBE the logic behind this is that the people who do this aren't really lazy,but rather,doing the next person a favour by leaving the cart there so they can just pick it up without having to worry about getting a cart when they get inside. However,the logic behind this completely falls the fuck apart when you realise how inconvienent it really is to push this cart on the cart asphalt and UP the sloped opening to the sidewalk to enter the store when you have to be in the area where all the carts are anyway when you enter the store,so it makes more sense to just get the cart there. Everybody who leaves carts in parking spaces should be forced to gather up all the shopping carts that are in the parking spaces,push them into each other to make one long cart,and then made to run around the entire perimeter of the lot while pushing said cart while yelling "I am a worthless,inconsiderate,piece of shit douchebag!" over and over again.
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Post by Fickle81 on Jan 9, 2011 3:57:42 GMT -5
You know what I have a BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF with?!
Something that I like to call "middle vendors". For those not in the know,middle vendors are little vendor stands LITTERALLY in the middle of shopping mall hallways between all the normal vendors on both sides (hence why I call them "middle vendors"). If you are fortunate enough to live in an area that has a mall completely FREE of these vendors,then feel free to let out a huge sigh of relief that you haven't had the utter dick cringing displeasure of having to deal with these cocksmoking maggots. Unfortunatly the mall near where my girlfriend is stationed in Maryland,Arundel Mills Mall,is INFESTED with these parasites (which is the only real flaw to an otherwise great mall). Seriously,these motherfuckers rank right up there with hotel housekeepers in astronomical annoyance.
As you might expect,because they are middle vendors,they sell all kinds of stupid shit that no real vendor in their right mind would try to sell...things like e-cigs,game controller packs that have roughly 876,098,736,987,209,394 different old school NES games on them that in reality are only about 20 games in different variations (by this product's logic,holding the button down to rapidfire in Contra counts as a different version of the game),"special" skin lotions and shower products that are oddly not sold in many of the body/shower vendors in the fucking mall (it CAN'T be for the reason that the "special" products are "special" like the occupants of a short bus and are therefore garbage...nah,can't be),and Asian cinema stands where the vast range of Asian cinema these vendors offer begins AND ends with martial arts/kung fu movies (because to the average dipshitted American,those are the only kinds of movies Asians make),among other things...not to mention other stupid shit like psychic and tarot card readings (those speak for themselves).
This wouldn't bother me so much if the vendor workers themselves didn't go OUT OF THEIR WAY to BOMBARD people passing by who are probably just trying to get to a REAL vendor,get something to eat in the food court,or to get to their car to leave...basically WHORING themselves out for these stupid useless products...and a lot of these vendors are foreign,who have NO sense or respect of personal space WHATSOEVER. I shit you not the other day my G/F and I were walking towards the food court,and this piece of shit metrosexual Arab LITTERALLY walks right up to my girlfriend,whom was quite a few feet away from this prick (we were on the left side of the hall,he was in the middle,and the halls are hugly wide...do the math) with his "Hello,would you like to try some of this lotion,try it,put it on!" hassling bullshit. I actually shoved this motherfucker,causing him to fall on his ass,and quickly got myself and my girl out of there before people started to realise what had happened. You might think I crossed the line into overreaction,and to that I say I DARE you to have as much experience as I've had with these assholes and not do the same thing when they get all up in the grill of your significant other. Hell,he could have just CALLED OUT to us to get us over to his little vendor stand...it wouldn't have worked,but at least it would have been better...but no,he litterally walks right up to my girl's face with no respect at all,shoving his stupid lotion in her face and pratically trying to FORCE her to try it.
Let me give you another story...back when I was stationed at the base near this mall (FT Meade),myself and a buddy of mine,who were there working on a photo assignment (his) when we were pratically DRAGGED to a middle vendor stand by this fairly hot Israely chick. She had us both try this gay ass nail polish/shiner,all while building it up as if this is what every female is going for nowadays even going so far as to ask if we had girlfriends,and since I said yes,telling me that she would be more attracted to me if I got my nails done like this (dispite that I know full well that she don't go for guys that do metro shit like that). Eventually we both declined the product she was selling,and she tried to pull out all the stops to keep us these and secure a purchase (even going so far as trying to make us feel guilty for taking her free sample when we already made up our minds not to buy it). The more I think about it,I bet either myself or my friend could have taken her out behind one of the outside back areas of the mall,plowed her pussy senseless till it turned into roast beef,and even given her a creampie if it meant us buying her gay ass nail polish system...cause THAT'S how far she was taking it...she was doing everything shy of pulling down our pants and chomping on our meatwhistles to sell that shit...it would have been like something out of a porno,I shit you not.
Now that I think about it,these fuckers are EVEN WORSE than hotel housekeepers...if these assholes were hotel housekeepers,they wouldn't even both knocking on the door to disturb you before opening it to violate your privacy...they would just unlock the door,run in,jump on the bed while you and your significant other were having sex and just yell "HOUSEKEEPING!! TOWELS?! BLANKETS?! PILLOWS?! SOAP?! HOUSEKEEPING!!" I would tell you to avoid these fuckers like the plague,but chances are if you have a mall in your area that has these asswipes,they won't let you avoid them,so here's what I suggest...avoid the malls they are in. Obviously the owner of said malls have agreed to allow these vendors to operate in their malls,so the only way to send them a message is to avoid the malls themselves. That way the mall owners will have no choice but to either impose stricter guidelines to these vendors on how to deal with patrons,or just eliminate the vendors altogether...personally,I vote for the latter.
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