Fast Food In Southwest Jackson. . .

I had a rant a while back about the less than stellar service that I received from the McDonald's just around the corner from my office. Since then, I have resigned myself to very low expectations on days like today when convenience outweighs quality in food choice. Yet, I am still perplexed at the terrible level of service that I receive from these establishments.

This afternoon I went to the newly renovated KFC at Highway 80 and J.R. Lynch Street and ordered the #5 from the pictogram menu. Two pieces of chicken, 2 sides, a biscuit and a drink. Easy right?

Wrong!

My order came with ONE piece of chicken.

Not to mention the fact that the person at the window never said a single word to me after completing my order at the speaker.

Now, I don't talk down to people. I was raised to speak respectfully to all people, using ma'am and sir, thank you and no thank you and lastly, please. I'll even waste mini-portions of my days holding doors open for unapologetic types. And what do I get from this twit at the window? Cold stares and not a peep. I even said thank you, knowing that this person would obviously rather shit in my mashed potatoes than issue a word of recognition to me. This, all topped off nicely by stiffing me for a chicken wing.

Now, some might say I'm overreacting. Maybe. But I believe in principles and my principles state that if I am working in a service industry, I am going to try my best to exceed my customers expectations. It just seems logical to me. I've basically been in the service industry my whole life, whether cooking or working here with the fam damily business.

I don't know. I was beginning to think that my hippified appearance may have something to do with it. My hair, my hair. Or more realistically, maybe they are just pissed that they wallow in a lowly service job with little reward, can't speak proper English and are too mindfucked to even give a shit what happens outside their own pathetic little worlds.

Fuck it. I guess it's bologna sandwiches with homemade chow chow from here on out.

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It's Official. . .Obama Is A Deranged Idiot. . .

Barracks Alabaster has all the answers and they are so hopey and changey.

Today, the guy floated a new hope. His new hope indicated that he will commit governmental robbery of free-market corporations doing business in a democratic and free county in an effort to corral spiraling energy prices.

Let's think about this for a sec my Merry Men.

If he takes windfall profit taxes from oil companies and distributes said taxes to poor struggling people so that they can "pay for their skyrocketing energy costs", what is going to stop them from easing down to the nearest Best Buy and buying a giant plasma tv or "qwunty-fo' inch rims fo' dey Impala?" And does this really SOLVE the energy problem America is having?

Couldn't this potentially have a negative effect on the price of energy by increasing demand, therefore increasing price because our sadistic "friends" in OPEC refuse to raise output? We just had the first reduction in oil usage in some 25-odd years and what's so wrong with that?

And then there's that other mania about reducing carbon output. Wouldn't distributing windfall taxes to the masses increase consumption and therefore increase the output of those dastardly gases Al Bore is so concerned with? Just sayin.

Then Barracks jumped all over McCain about wanting to extend President Bush's tax cuts for corporations including oil companies. How is taxing the oil companies going to reduce the price of a barrel of oil? Hhmmmm?

Why not allow these companies to use THEIR profits to build infrastructure here in the USA for the exploration, recovery and refining of oil? Now THAT is a solution and it kinda avoids that whole stealing thing by the government.

And what if, in the meantime, we give tax INCENTIVES to the struggling US automakers and outside technology companies to produce hybrid, electric, solar and fuel cell technologies for our transportation systems in an effort to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and IN THE PROCESS reducing our contribution to the destruction of polar bear icicles? Is that a good idea? Kinda leaves out that whole stealing thing again.

Speaking of robbery, it's right here in our face courtesy of OPEC which is run by a gang of hypocritical and thuggish criminals. Every day, hundreds of millions of dollars go right into the hands of this cartel, many if not most of which could give two shits about the future of the United States. Saudi Arabia and Hugo Chavez giving you the warm fuzzies all over? If so, then you are ill in the gray matter.

Barracks Alabaster? Has no gray matter, yet his hope will change it all. And with his hand firmly on the handle of the collective toilet as President, we'll all be grabbing for the deodorant puck on the way down.

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