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Things that made me look twice.

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It’s not every day you see a sleeping opossum hugging a crocheted opossum while wearing Crocs, but here you are.

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I remember having Barbie Dolls when I was a child. I never really liked them but people always gifted them to me because, ya know.. girl toy.

Back in my day there weren’t many varieties of Barbie, maybe Malibu… and that seemed exotic at the time. Now? There are hundreds.

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Damn. That sure beats a suntan.

And lest you think these versions are cheap, Barbie with psychotic birds will set you back $399…. which I thought was outrageous until I saw this –

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Yikes!

The title of this next photograph I took when we went out to lunch the other day should be Are we doing this now?

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How about you just pay your kitchen staff a decent wage and not expect the customers to pay extra to keep them happy?

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18 thoughts on “Things that made me look twice.”

  1. Add 55 cents to the price of the Reuben and you got your money without ticking off your customers. Then again, if your competition can make money selling them for $18, why can’t you?

    Yeoman Barbie and Red-shirt Ken – looks like she’ll be coming home single.

    The opossum is flat-out adorable.

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  4. Opossum holding a crotchet mini version of itself, cute as a button. The Birds Barbie, not so much. The Star Trek Barbie and Ken are collectors items that came out in the mid 80’s I believe, hence their ridiculous selling price. And, wtf is up with adding fees to everything now a days!?! It’s bad enough shrinkflation is killing us left and right!

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  6. Dear restaurateur,
    The kitchen appreciation fee is just plain stupid. Raise your prices, it’s honest. The price of everything else is going up so you can easily justify that. Rolling out that wagonload of bullshit and expecting everyone to just accept that it’s going where you say just isn’t going to work. I’m betting the farm that everyone who looks at that menu is going to be blowing the bullshit whistle, loud and proud, hardly conducive to a successful work environment. Or maybe not. They may decide to reduce the size of the tip that goes to the server. I’m sure they won’t mind.
    As for the kitchen staff, whom I feel sure had no part in cooking up this very bad idea, other than applying the pressure to put it on the menu, consider this: Three things that have been consistent across all the many jobs I have had over the years are that I knew what the job paid, what the job entailed and that I was going to have to do it. If the labor market was sufficiently robust to afford me other opportunities, I could and sometimes did explore them. If not, I’ll stay where I am and campaign for a pay increase based on my own merit, which is how I think it should be done.

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  7. Kitchen Appreciation Fee? I remember when, as a busboy, my “appreciation fee” was that each waitress gave me a quarter (25 cents) from her tips at the end of the night.

    There is a restaurant in my neighborhood with a no-tip policy because they pay a living wage.

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  9. For the reastsurant: i sit, I read. I ask to see the manager. I ask, “So who is getting the profits? Obviously not your working staff!” And I walk.
    Done this three times in my life so far. Cannot see why anyone would eat at such a place. Total bullshit!
    I’d rather eat with the possum.

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