My wife and I were were talking the other day and, I don’t remember what we were even talking about, but the idea came up that we would need an oreo for. I joked about getting one from my secret stash. This is where she made her mistake. She said “oh right, like you could have an Oreo stash without me knowing about it.”
I’m sorry?
That’s a challenge.
Oreos aquired.
I’m going to hide them in a super simple place at first
But be sure to follow this post while I chronicle all the ways and places I hide them and also how I plan on taunting her with cookies while she can’t find the package
She is out of the house for a moment so it’s time to enjoy a few cookies
And find a new hiding spot
Hehehe
They up there
Normally I’m a Oreos with milk kinda guy, but I’ll take coffee if coffee is available
Now to hide them right under her nose
She never looks under the TV for anything. Tonight when we are watching Halloween Wars I’ll have a big dopey grin on my face
Time to up the stakes. It was fun having em here and hiding them around her while she didn’t know what was happening. Bit now it’s time for her to be in on the game she is playing
Four cookies packed in her lunch. Game on
I’ve been cleaning house today and feeling like I’ve done a pretty good job. Time to reward myself with some delicious Oreos
Aaaaand put them where she would never find them in a million years
🙂
Got up early this morning and helped pack everyone’s lunch. Pulling a damn Oprah over here
You get some cookies! You get some cookies! Everyone gets cookies!
Then a devious idea struck me…
I put the remaining Oreos in a baggie to hide by themselves. Now to “hide” the package where it will probably be found…
And pin the actual stash to the inside of the closet wall
If you two weren’t already married I’d beg you to marry her because you two are obviously perfect for each other and I love this post with all my heart
This guy’s dopey grin at his success at hiding oreos is exactly what I’m here for
You like that eh? Well you are going to love today’s installment
Look at that. So sad. So few Oreos left
Guess I’ll just pin em right to the middle of the wall in the middle of the living room. She’ll never find em there
Oh, guess I should put this back up
Bwa ha ha ha! You guys! You guys don’t understand! I was planning on doing this and when I got home and looked at it I was like “aww, it’s too thin. They won’t fit.” I even TOLD my wife this and how I was disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to hide them back there.
But then I looked again. They dooooo
Thank you all so much for the love. I knew y’all would like this, but I had no idea you would like it THIS MUCH. People calling us “goals” and stuff… Man…. It’s kinda hard to take in ya know? Anyways: if this post gets Over 9000™ before I get off work today I will pick up Halloween Oreos on my way home and this will not stop
I honestly don’t really know that your wrong I mean I’ve certainly eaten a piece of cold ravioli before but 1. Canned just sounds.. weird and 2. I think it’s a bit ridiculous that that was ever a way a way you were given it. Peak laziness. Just.. why serve something cold that’s meant to be eaten warm that isn’t pizza when plenty of things can be served cold/at least not warm? I don’t get it. It’s probably fine honestly, but it’s still. An unsavory concept.
And listen I was looking for a post earlier and I didn’t find it but if I can post a picture of marinara and a spoon with a caption having to do with “lunch” I think eating cold ravioli is probably a reasonable sin.
Mother even admitted it was laziness. But after eating it from childhood cold, I’ve developed a taste. I can’t eat it warm without feeling a little sick.
I mean I haven’t had ravioli in a long time but for some reason I’m having a hard time imagining eating it warm. It’s really hardly probably even bad that way honestly. It’s still weird though.
It’s really the “canned” aspect that bothers me. Seems somehow like that should not be good. Out of all pastas ravioli is probably the best to eat cold. Cold spaghetti is really not that great.
Meu amor ❤
I just have a hard time imagining that sauce as edible in any form. That’s the hard part, not the ravioli.
God ordinarily that would probably look decent but right now my stomach is still a little fucked
Like I keep saying it’s probably fine.
A fool and her cold sin have found comfort in one, so I’m thinking of cracking open a cold one of my second love.
God please don’t
I honestly can’t decide if that sounds better or worse than it warm
God abandoned me long ago. There’s no going back.
At least I’m not giving you uncomfortable thoughts of me eating a peanut butter and cheez wiz sandwich, and happily enjoying it.
I mean, there is.
That sounds like it taste directly like vomit honestly. Cheese wiz in and of itself is beyond disgusting (though it has been many years so I guess I could be wrong), at least keep it to things it’s meant to go on
That’s nothing, really. I eat stranger things than that.
I mean, a lot of people have preferences. For one, there are people who enjoy carrots in any from. Imagine that.
Buddy do I need to write you an essay I’ve said like 80 times I’m not bothered by it anymore and I can see why it would be fine and if I’ll ever get the chance I’ll try it. I don’t necessarily think I’d like it honestly warm or cold because it’s /canned ravioli/, but. I don’t find it an overly pleasant idea but like.. I’m not as bothered by it as you seem to think I am.
Plus like, it is BY FAR not the most offensive thing you eat.
My name is Kelsey Juliana and I’m suing the United States government
for causing and accelerating the climate change crisis. I’m 22 years old
and I’ve been a climate activist for more than half of my life.
I know that young people like me, and others who have yet to be born,
have a right to a safe climate system. The constitution guarantees all
Americans the right to life, liberty, and property. But how is anyone
supposed to live a life of freedom amid a climate crisis? My own
government is violating my constitutional rights by its ongoing and
deliberate actions that cause climate change and it’s not right.
I, along with 20 other young people from around the country, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2015, called Juliana v. United States.
We’re not asking for money. Instead, we’re asking the court to order
the government to develop and implement a National Climate Recovery Plan
based on the best available science.
This plan should end the reign of fossil fuels and quickly
decarbonize our atmosphere so that we can stabilize our climate system
before it’s too late.
The longer we go without climate recovery, the more we risk allowing our climate to spiral completely out of control.
And the climate is spiraling out of control, no matter how many
politicians claim we’re experiencing normal fluctuations or, worse, a
“hoax.” All of the expert witnesses in our lawsuit say that we are
currently—already—in the “danger zone” and an “emergency situation” with
only 1°C of planetary heating. Allowing the planet to heat up any more
is not safe for our species, as well as so many others. And according to
the Trump administration’s most recent environmental impact statement,
the planet could heat as much as 7°F before the end of this century. We
cannot allow this to happen because we simply will not survive.
We originally filed our lawsuit against the Obama administration.
That administration tried to have the case dismissed, but the judge
ruled in our favor and found that we should be allowed to go to trial.
In 2017, the Trump administration inherited the lawsuit and it has
done everything in its power, employing every conceivable tactic, to
deny my fellow plaintiffs and me our right to present our case in court.
This administration is so fiercely attempting to silence our voices.
At this point, every level of the federal judiciary—the U.S. District
Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court—has
denied the Trump administration’s efforts to have the case thrown out.
Yet it will not halt its efforts to avoid standard legal procedures and
confront us, the nation’s youth, in court.
Our trial is officially scheduled to begin on October 29, 2018 in Eugene, Oregon.
What we’re asking for could change everything.
My fellow plaintiffs and I want you with us as we head into the
courtroom to confront the United States government for knowingly
violating our constitutional rights. Supporters will hold rallies in
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Getting dirty, asking questions, being unapologetically enthusiastic about things, going overboard on projects. These are a few of my favorite things.
This is so heartbreaking, but so true.
There’s something that bothers me about this post and it’s not that I think the message is fundamentally false or unimportant. Even from my own experience alone, I know it’s not, even though I’ve had a relatively positive experience in terms of not being told I can’t do things or be interested in things because I’m a girl, and.. it’s a message I definitely consider important. Hopefully I can be articulate enough to express it clearly.
It’s the statistics and what you’re supposed to think about the statistics that seems fundamentally misleading to me.
66% of 4th grade girls say they’re interested in science and math. 18% of college ENGINEERING majors are girls.
Even if literally every 4th grader at the time of whatever study gave that statistic was surveyed.. it’d be a bit stupid to expect that 66% of women entering college would be entering STEM fields. Liking something doesn’t mean you’re interested in it as a career. Also, 4th grade science and math is a lot different than even high school science and math, so, assuming absolutely no bias against women (which.. while there definitely is, at least to some degree, I’m not going to argue the severity because I don’t really know), it’d be reasonable to expect that some of that number would lose interest in STEM due to difficulty or just general loss of curiosity due to the pressures of school.
The statistics also don’t mention the ratio of men. Obviously, at least according to these statistics, 82% of engineering majors are men. That might be a concerning ratio, it might not be. Obviously, both men and women are discouraged from certain fields because it’s not manly/feminine enough, respectively. But it doesn’t say what percentage of 4th grade boys say they’re interested in science and math.
That presents a problem, because if more boys are interested in science and math (though, 4th grade isn’t really before “I can’t do that because I’m a girl” biases can take hold anyway), then it would make sense that there would be more men in STEM fields.
The 18% statistic also doesn’t account for the fact that some of that 66% of women could be going into other STEM fields. In fact, it seems to me like you’re not supposed to see the “engineering” part and assume the 18% applies to ALL STEM fields, which regardless of the actual percentage of women in STEM fields, is not true.
Fundamentally, there is bias against women. It is incredibly heartbreaking. But these statistics are meant to cause you to come to a conclusion that the statistics themselves don’t really support in and of themselves. And that seems a little insidious to me.
But yeah, it’s definitely important to encourage people to do what they want and are interested in regardless of gender because gender roles are stupid and arbitrary. It’s so stupid to destroy people’s dreams and such because of something so subjective. It is really, really sad. There’s no reason anyone should be discouraged from any harmless interest and I think it’s really important that we make that clear to children as they’re growing up, regardless of what that interest is. Probably especially if they’re in a group unrepresented in said interest historically.
what she means: the words “christmas tree” are used in the hobbit, and since we know that bilbo is the author of the hobbit, hobbits must have christmas which means there must be a middle earth jesus. but hobbits seem to be the only ones who have the concept of christmas which means it was probably a hobbit jesus. but frodo says in return of the king that no hobbit has ever intentionally harmed another hobbit so who crucified hobbit jesus?? were there other hobbit incarnations of religious figures?? was there hobbit moses?? did jrr tolkien even think about this at all??
Wait wait I might actually have an answer
Tolkien wrote The Hobbit like waaaay before he even dreamed up the idea for Lord of the Rings, so when he DID dream up LotR, he had a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t make sense. Like plotholes galore
Like for example in the first version Gollum was a pretty nice dude who lost the riddle contest graciously and gave Bilbo the ring as a legit present and was very helpful and it was super nice and polite and absolutely nobody tried to eat anyone because this is a story for kids and that’s very rude
But that doesn’t work with LotR, so Tolkien went back and re-released an updated version of The Hobbit with all the lore changes and stuff to fix everything that didn’t work
This is the version we know and love today
BUT rather than pretend the early version never existed, Tolkien went and worked the retcon into the lore
If you pay attention in Fellowship, there’s a bit where Gandalf is telling Frodo about the ring and he mentions how Bilbo wasn’t entirely honest about the manner in which it was found
To us modern readers, this doesn’t make a ton of sense, so mostly we just breeze by it–but actually that line is referencing the first version of The Hobbit
The pre-retcon version of the Hobbit is canonically Bilbo’s original book. The original version with Nice Gollum is canonically a lie Bilbo told to legitimize his claim to the ring and absolve him of the guilt he feels for his rather shady behavior
Then the post-retcon version is an in-universe edited edition someone went and released later to straighten out Bilbo’s lies
So it’s 100% plausible that the in-universe editor who fixed up Bilbo’s Red Book and translated it from whatever language Hobbits speak was a human who knew about Christmas Trees and tossed the detail in to make human readers feel more at home, because that’s the kind of thing that sometimes happens when you have a translator editor person dressing up a story for an audience that doesn’t know the exact cultural context in which the original story was written
Tolkien was a medieval scholar and medieval stories are rife with that sort of thing, so like… yeah
Not only all that, but Tolkien was also working within a frame narrative that he wasn’t the real author, but a translator of older manuscripts; so, in-universe, the published The Hobbit isn’t actually Bilbo’s book, but rather Tolkien’s copy of an older copy of an older copy of an older copy of Bilbo’s book. So when errors and anachronisms came up, he would leave them there instead of fixing them, and he may have even put some in intentionally; what we’re supposed to get from the “Christmas tree” bit is that the first scribe to translate the book from Westroni to English couldn’t come up with an accurate analogue for whatever hobbits do at midwinter.
Yes. Another example of tolkien doing this is him using, for instance, Old High Gothic to represent Rohirric – not because the people of Rohan actually spoke that language, but because Old High Gothic had the same relationship with English that Rohirric had with Westron (Which is the Common Language spoken in the West of Middle-Earth). There’s tons of that stuff in the book.
Like, Merry and Pippin’s real names (In Westron) are Kalimac Brandagamba and Razanur Tûk, respectively (to pick just one example of this). Tolkien changed their names in English to names which would give us English-speakers the same kind of feeling as those names would to a Westron-speaker. Lord of the Rings is so much deeper than most readers realise.
tolkein’s entire oevre is just one epic in-joke with the oxford linguistics department imo
No that’s right! The basic point still stands and is neat but a lot of Rohirric names are translated as Old English, like Theodred and Eorl and so on. Another interesting thing is that he sometimes modernized them to modern English because, apparently, those names were intelligible to Westron speakers, either because Gondorians knew them or because the Hobbits recognized them from their dialects (they once lived near the Rohirrim and borrowed a bunch of words, including their name for themselves). Here’s a good link about it from Tolkien Gateway, it’s SUPER cool.
Also if I correctly recall (it’s been a while so I might not) there was a draft of TTT where Tolkien intended for Theoden to greet Our Heroes in Old English. This was in The Treason of Isengard and I have a very distinct memory of reading it at about fifteen and being completely floored and baffled by the fact that he just…wrote an entire speech in Old English for Theoden to say. Like, can you even believe. I absolutely love how much flavor and care he put into the languages in LOTR.
There was a great deal of discussion about this, in academia and even in parts of the mainstream media immediately following 9/11. It was sort of a guilty secret kind of discussion because nobody wanted to appear unsympathetic to the victims of terrorism, but it was there. Then it got shut down by the whole Pearl Harbor cultivated patriotism effect that was getting everyone to accept the Iraq and Afghan wars (which are still going on), where you aren’t allowed to say anything negative about the United States or its past or how that past contributes to its current problems, and by the destruction of decent corporate journalism that occurred in 2002-2003.
It sounds dumb to say that people know these things but won’t talk about them, but the people with enough education and experience to know are part of professional frameworks, and those frameworks and career paths are heavily ideologically and financially gated, and so people with knowledge don’t speak up or talk about things like this because people who do that don’t stick around or advance. And the people who know but are outside of “respectable” career positions, civilian or government, aren’t relevant and nobody listens to them because there’s nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing so. That’s how it has worked in the United States since World War II. That’s why no one learns, and why government has turned into a patriotism purity feedback loop of destruction.
I learned about a lot of this stuff (US destabilizing the middle east) in school last year but I understand most people aren’t which I find abhorrent. If you’re going to teach US history, actually teach US history. It’s really nothing to be proud of.
Getting dirty, asking questions, being unapologetically enthusiastic about things, going overboard on projects. These are a few of my favorite things.
This is so heartbreaking, but so true.
There’s something that bothers me about this post and it’s not that I think the message is fundamentally false or unimportant. Even from my own experience alone, I know it’s not, even though I’ve had a relatively positive experience in terms of not being told I can’t do things or be interested in things because I’m a girl, and.. it’s a message I definitely consider important. Hopefully I can be articulate enough to express it clearly.
It’s the statistics and what you’re supposed to think about the statistics that seems fundamentally misleading to me.
66% of 4th grade girls say they’re interested in science and math. 18% of college ENGINEERING majors are girls.
Even if literally every 4th grader at the time of whatever study gave that statistic was surveyed.. it’d be a bit stupid to expect that 66% of women entering college would be entering STEM fields. Liking something doesn’t mean you’re interested in it as a career. Also, 4th grade science and math is a lot different than even high school science and math, so, assuming absolutely no bias against women (which.. while there definitely is, at least to some degree, I’m not going to argue the severity because I don’t really know), it’d be reasonable to expect that some of that number would lose interest in STEM due to difficulty or just general loss of curiosity due to the pressures of school.
The statistics also don’t mention the ratio of men. Obviously, at least according to these statistics, 82% of engineering majors are men. That might be a concerning ratio, it might not be. Obviously, both men and women are discouraged from certain fields because it’s not manly/feminine enough, respectively. But it doesn’t say what percentage of 4th grade boys say they’re interested in science and math.
That presents a problem, because if more boys are interested in science and math (though, 4th grade isn’t really before “I can’t do that because I’m a girl” biases can take hold anyway), then it would make sense that there would be more men in STEM fields.
The 18% statistic also doesn’t account for the fact that some of that 66% of women could be going into other STEM fields. In fact, it seems to me like you’re not supposed to see the “engineering” part and assume the 18% applies to ALL STEM fields, which regardless of the actual percentage of women in STEM fields, is not true.
Fundamentally, there is bias against women. It is incredibly heartbreaking. But these statistics are meant to cause you to come to a conclusion that the statistics themselves don’t really support in and of themselves. And that seems a little insidious to me.
But yeah, it’s definitely important to encourage people to do what they want and are interested in regardless of gender because gender roles are stupid and arbitrary. It’s so stupid to destroy people’s dreams and such because of something so subjective. It is really, really sad. There’s no reason anyone should be discouraged from any harmless interest and I think it’s really important that we make that clear to children as they’re growing up, regardless of what that interest is. Probably especially if they’re in a group unrepresented in said interest historically.
Getting dirty, asking questions, being unapologetically enthusiastic about things, going overboard on projects. These are a few of my favorite things.
This is so heartbreaking, but so true.
There’s something that bothers me about this post and it’s not that I think the message is fundamentally false or unimportant. Even from my own experience alone, I know it’s not, even though I’ve had a relatively positive experience in terms of not being told I can’t do things or be interested in things because I’m a girl, and.. it’s a message I definitely consider important. Hopefully I can be articulate enough to express it clearly.
It’s the statistics and what you’re supposed to think about the statistics that seems fundamentally misleading to me.
66% of 4th grade girls say they’re interested in science and math. 18% of college ENGINEERING majors are girls.
Even if literally every 4th grader at the time of whatever study gave that statistic was surveyed.. it’d be a bit stupid to expect that 66% of women entering college would be entering STEM fields. Liking something doesn’t mean you’re interested in it as a career. Also, 4th grade science and math is a lot different than even high school science and math, so, assuming absolutely no bias against women (which.. while there definitely is, at least to some degree, I’m not going to argue the severity because I don’t really know), it’d be reasonable to expect that some of that number would lose interest in STEM due to difficulty or just general loss of curiosity due to the pressures of school.
The statistics also don’t mention the ratio of men. Obviously, at least according to these statistics, 82% of engineering majors are men. That might be a concerning ratio, it might not be. Obviously, both men and women are discouraged from certain fields because it’s not manly/feminine enough, respectively. But it doesn’t say what percentage of 4th grade boys say they’re interested in science and math.
That presents a problem, because if more boys are interested in science and math (though, 4th grade isn’t really before “I can’t do that because I’m a girl” biases can take hold anyway), then it would make sense that there would be more men in STEM fields.
The 18% statistic also doesn’t account for the fact that some of that 66% of women could be going into other STEM fields. In fact, it seems to me like you’re not supposed to see the “engineering” part and assume the 18% applies to ALL STEM fields, which regardless of the actual percentage of women in STEM fields, is not true.
Fundamentally, there is bias against women. It is incredibly heartbreaking. But these statistics are meant to cause you to come to a conclusion that the statistics themselves don’t really support in and of themselves. And that seems a little insidious to me.
But yeah, it’s definitely important to encourage people to do what they want and are interested in regardless of gender because gender roles are stupid and arbitrary. It’s so stupid to destroy people’s dreams and such because of something so subjective. It is really, really sad. There’s no reason anyone should be discouraged from any harmless interest and I think it’s really important that we make that clear to children as they’re growing up, regardless of what that interest is. Probably especially if they’re in a group unrepresented in said interest historically.
If you work in a movie theater and you do this I have no respect for you.
My younger brother is Type 1 Diabetic.
When we go to a movie theater, we always get him diet soda. If he were to get regular when we asked for diet, we would not give him the insulin he would need for it. If that happens, his blood sugar level could go so high he could go into a coma, go blind, or even die.
If somebody gave him regular soda instead of diet without telling us, that person could be responsible for a nine-year-old being killed or blinded.
Just thinking about that makes me so angry. I get scared every time we take him to a movie in case the people working there saw this picture and decide to do the same thing.
Please signal boost this so people know.
This also applies to baristas
Fun story about the baristas doing this kind of shit.
I am very sensitive to lactose, not Lactose intolerant but because of stomach ulcers that are still healing. A couple years ago I went to Starbucks right after my classes with some friends and asked for a green tea latte with soy milk. The barista, for some reason out of malice and/or hate for her life so she took it out on me, gave me whole milk in my latte.
5 minutes after my first sip of latte, my stomach cramped BAD. Not the “Oh! time to poop!” kind of cramp but it felt like someone had stabbed me with a knife and twisted it. Now I’ve had this happen before so I knew the cause of it. I went up to the barista clutching my gut screaming at her that she put dairy in my latte rather than soy LIKE I REQUESTED. She denied it and called me a “pretentious white girl for wanting soy”and so my friends got the manager. I had to explain that I had stomach ulcers that were still healing and if I were to go to the hospital for this incident, they would be responsible for it.
Manager flipped his shit and the barista was terrified out of her mind. Pretty sure both thought i was gonna sue. Manager actually fired her on the spot because of the negligence. My friends managed to get me home in one piece while I stayed home for 3 days in absolute agony and missed my midterm.
So remember kiddies, if someone is asking for Diet or “Skinny” or “soy” or anything that is not regular, give them what they requested because it may not be them being healthy, but a dietary need that can possibly be life or death
also if they ARE trying to be healthy you should give it to them to!! Its not your decision to police or question others food choices!!!
also im lactose intolerant AND ive had stomach infections/ulcers so i feel this.
I have Celiac Disease, so I’m very gluten intolerant. When I go out to eat at restaurants a lot of people just assume that I asked for my food gluten free because of the gluten free diet fad (which is usually a bullshit diet btw).
Last month I went out to dinner with a friend at an italian restaurant that had a small gluten free menu. I had been there once before and had their gluten free pasta and it was great! I think one of the managers had been there and was super helpful when taking my order to make sure that everything was gluten free for me. When I ordered the gluten free pasta again this time though, the waitress who took my order all but rolled her eyes at me. I didn’t think much of it at the time, because the restaurant was so accommodating before, I just assumed it would be the same this time.
But sure enough, they brought out my pasta, I ate it, and about an hour later I had extreme stomach pains and was throwing up (in a movie theater no less).
Barfing and agonizing pain aside, eating gluten when you have celiac causes a lot of internal damage that’s hard to notice. The biggest thing is that it damages your intestines, preventing your body from absorbing nutrients properly, which can take months to heal.
So PLEASE, if you work at a restaurant or anything with food and someone asks for something a certain way, please listen to them and don’t just disregard someone’s order. It’s not funny and it can have serious consequences.
I will reblog this with every single story about someone getting sick because of an asshole giving them the opposite of what they ordered until it sinks in for everyone.
Recently on the news a 16 year old boy with a dairy allergy had gone to eat at IHOP with his family. The specifically asked if they could make dairy free pancakes and they said yes. Not too long after he had a reaction and was rushed to the hospital. This kid died because the was dairy in his pancakes that they asked for no dairy. His epi pen that his mother had wasn’t enough to help him. I know working in fast food or any job that’s serves food and beverage sucks but not as much as causing someone to get sick over negligence.
My youngest cousin – who is now five, he just started kindergarten – has Celiac’s disease. You would not BELEIVE the amount of times I’ve heard my aunt say she’s ordered something gluten free, only to watch the waiter or waitress’s eyes go huge when she gives it to my cousin – my cousin with the medical id band on his tiny five year old wrist proclaiming I HAVE CELIACS and have to take it back.
Shit like this could kill my cousin. Knock it the fuck off.
I cannot tolerate caffeine–it makes me have chest pain and a racing pulse, and also gives me horrible body pain, so I always ask for decaf if I order coffee when I’m out, and doublecheck with the waiter/ress when they bring it. but instead of saying “is this decaf like I asked for?” I always say “oh, did I remember to order decaf?” I shouldn’t have to act like I’m the forgetful one (because I know damn well I asked for decaf) but it seems to work better than implying that they screwed up when I take the blame on myself like that. and if there’s any hesitation when they answer, I tell them, “if there’s any doubt, please get another one, or just give me water–if this is regular, it’ll mess up my heart” and lots of times when I say that, they look alarmed and go change it or get another one.
but I shouldn’t HAVE to share my personal medical history with strangers just to get my order right! no one should! how is it their business? it makes me really uncomfortable to have to do that. JUST GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY ORDER!
I’ve reblogged this maaaany times before but there’s a few new stories on here so i’m doing it again.
cut this shit out
don’t be that kind of asshole.
As a diabetic, this would make me so beyond angry. Skinny doesn’t mean they don’t have a life threatening illness. Skinny doesn’t mean they can process sugar the way you do. People that do this are the worst kinds of people. DO NOT DO THIS!
Me and my family went to a restaurant a few years back and one of the dishes we ordered was made with wine vinegar, which I am allergic to, so we asked the waiter to skip it, and he said sure, no problem, that’s fine.
So my food gets to the table, and I start eating and then my throat closes and I can’t breathe and then I start coughing and throwing up right there in the middle of the restaurant and it was very fortunate that I was with my family and they knew what was happening to me.
I had to be rushed to the hospital, and admitted, and I came damn near close to having my throat cut open so I could breathe through a whole on my neck.
Because they put wine vinegar in my food when I explicitly told them not to, because they were assholes, and I could have died.
They probably didn’t mean to hurt me but they did. I missed class, and work, and, again, I COULD HAVE DIED.
i have cyclic vomiting syndrome and can’t tolerate dairy or red meat. violating my dietary restrictions triggers an acute episode, and i have to be hospitalized and given iv saline, ativan, and anti-emetics to stop the (extremely painful and incapacitating) vomiting. if somebody put regular milk instead of soy milk in my latte and i didn’t notice the taste immediately, i could wind up in the er and then spend several days in bed recovering, eating nothing but saltines and dry toast and clear liquids until my body was able to tolerate food again, unable to work or go out or do anything besides rest. whenever i go to starbucks, i WATCH them make my drink. cvs episodes are horrible and i hate them, and i can prevent them if i do everything right, but that means my damn barista has to cooperate. if somebody decided i was a stuck up white girl and gave me whole milk instead of soy they could put me in the hospital and cost me days of income. give ppl the food they fuckin order. it’s not that hard.
Reblogging because it’s so important. I’m “lucky” I don’t have any food allergies or intolerence, but it makes me mad when people take them not seriously, think you are picky or just following a “white girl diet fad”.
90% of people don’t take my cats and dog allergies seriously when I tell them I’m allergic and wondering if a cat or a dog is present at X place. They think it’s just watery eyes. Nope. Well yeah, watery and itchy eyes, but I start wo wheeze and have trouble breathing. They don’t give epi-pen for those (anyway you have to go to the hospital after) just inhaler. It’s no miracle, specially if I didn’t take other meds before.
When people tell you about their allergies or restriction, trust them!
Reblogging for all the stories here because this is sooo important!
I have a severe allergy to gluten and relate to MANY of the stories above. My daughter has a severe allergy to milk fat, and I have had to hold her hair many times while she vomits on the side of the road because we couldn’t even make it home from the “accidental” whole milk instead of skim.
I’m super lactose intolerant so accidental milk is always fun. Severe diarrhea, stomach cramps, bloating, and gas like you wouldn’t believe. Better than death you might say but, I have other medical conditions, so that diarrhea could lead to vomiting(it’s so bad the vomit comes out my mouth AND nose) and dehydration that in turn becomes low cortisol and adrenal crisis. A bitchy barista can land me in the hospital with an intramuscular shot and saline iv. Hun, it takes no time to listen and follow my order. It takes me at least 24 hours to get out of the hospital. Be nice.
I’m allergic to pork. Legit allergic. I can’t count how many times I’ve had to ask it off my food only to receive it with bacon or ham or something on it.
Please respect peoples food requests. It costs 0.00$ to not be a dick.
I actually have customers who say they’ll only eat at my restaurant when I’m there, because they know I require all policy to be followed, as in “I will kick you the fuck off your shift if you skimp,” if someone says the words “I have an allergy.” I developed our allergy policies, for that matter, because what we had in place before was “I guess you shouldn’t change your gloves … . ?” On my shifts your gloves get changed, that line gets wiped down with a new cloth, paper under EVERY ITEM for the person with the allergy, bag their food separately to prevent contact. If there’s a risk of cross-contamination with an allergen, like tomatoes in the guac because stuff spills when you’re moving as fast as we do, I’ll open a new bag of food. I learned the ingredients in every item we serve so I could advise people on hidden allergens (e.g., there’s a small amount of wheat in our beef as a thickener; we fry with safflower oil). We have a grease pencil to mark special builds and I use it liberally on allergy orders. If all of this sounds like overkill, you’ve never watched a child suffer from anaphylaxis. I don’t play around.
Like, I bitch about my job a lot, but food allergies and special needs are not something I will ever bitch about. Even if you’re a complete asshole I won’t risk contaminating your food. (Although people with allergies seem to be way nicer than the general population, I gotta say.) Don’t do it. If someone’s a petty asshole to you, give them too much ice in their drink. Don’t play with their health.
DO NOT FUCKING SCROLL PAST THIS P L E A S E
Reblogging this again because it is important. Doing the right thing has no cost but doing the wrong thing can cost a person’s life. Don’t be a dick, give the person what they ordered
Reblogging always. I especially hate that things that are legitimate concerns for people, EVEN LIFE AND DEATH SERIOUS, are taken as some kind of “fad” or “trend.” The benefit of a something becoming a trend is that it becomes more readily accessible.
The downside is when you actually need it, people assume it just for the trend.
Please don’t be this person. I beg you. Don’t sink to that level. Please.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD P L E A S E DON’T BE THIS PERSON.
I used to have a milk and eggs allergy as a child (as a baby to about kindergarten age). Both resulted in my having breathing issues and fainting. My parents had to always be watching what the hell went near me so that I wouldn’t have to go to the hospital because they weren’t sure what would happen when I fainted.
I don’t think you would want to be the one responsible for a toddler being sent to the ER, because a) you’d probably feel bad and b) the parents might sue.
Luckily I’ve grown out of it. But as a white bitch I don’t want to know what could’ve happened if I hadn’t grown out of them and had a negligent server at at restaurant…
Don’t question people when they order. It’ll save everybody the energy.
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