Earth’s Axis Tilts as Consumerist Commenters All Agree on Douchiness of Fast-Food Line Cellphone-Talkers

29Jul08

In a rare show of consensus, practically all Consumerist commenters agree: talking on your cellphone while dealing with retail staff is unacceptably douchey behaviour and we applaud the Subway sandwich outlet which posted the above sign. Consumerist commenter flamewars are expected to resume with the very next post.

And, elsewhere…

(courtesy FailBlog)

(un Cuil )

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8 Responses to “Earth’s Axis Tilts as Consumerist Commenters All Agree on Douchiness of Fast-Food Line Cellphone-Talkers”

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1 sam on Jul 29th, 2008 said:

Cuil may be the stupidest search engine I’ve ever seen. From the too-cutesy name to the fact that it can’t find my blog even when I type in the FULL URL in the search box, it’s pretty much just a FAIL all around.

I know my blog isn’t particularly popular - generally read by my own friends and family and that’s it, but google manages to find it just fine.
2 cb on Jul 29th, 2008 said:

meh- I like talking on my celly while in line AND while ordering. Most of the time the people waiting on me have lost all passion for their job and only serve me with the barest modicum of cordiality.

So why should I give them anything more than my order?
3 bstewart23 on Jul 29th, 2008 said:

@sam: Of course, the very first thing everyone does when trying a new search engine/tool is to search for their own, online identity. Searching CUIL for this very domain produced results which, oddly, included no hits from this domain. Equals fail. Also? Pathetically lame name, which I vow to always pronounce as “queel”.

@cb: At one point I was going to post a poll in which you could vote on the airport with the least-engaged fast-food workers. But I knew Newark’s Liberty International Airport would be the no-contest winner.

Also @cb: Hold on, no comment on the second photo from you, of all people?
4 cb on Jul 29th, 2008 said:

Dude, if the McDonalds billboard had said “Open 24 hours” THEN I would have commented…
5 lsn on Jul 29th, 2008 said:

You know, I’ve driven past that Maccas sign near Yass about 10 times in the last couple of years and never managed to notice that!

Then again, by the time I hit Yass I’ve been driving for either 5 or 7 hours, so maybe that’s it.
6 Tony on Jul 30th, 2008 said:

I wonder what level of douchiness they would give to the morons I see texting WHILE they are riding their bicycles?

I have to say those Aussie’s really know how to get a pick me up to start their morning.

As for Cuil, do you think maybe they could have thought this out a little more before launching the site?

All in all though, I have to say thank goodness for stupid. Otherwise what would we have to talk about?
7 KnuckleCrack on Jul 30th, 2008 said:

“Wait hold on a minute…Um..I’ll have a……..hmmm…..latte….Ok, so anyway I’m out with Brad last night and he’s all ‘why were you being rude this past weekend’ and I’m all ‘uhh, excuse me? YOU’RE the one who was rude- I mean- my mother baked that upside-down pineapple cake for YOU and you didn’t even have one bite. It’s not like I ask him to go to my parent’s house every weekend, you know what I mean? Is it so hard to just appease me? Wait hold on…”

“Umm, excuse me- didn’t I ask for extra cream? (back to phone) I swear people are so inept sometimes. Like, what happened to LISTENING to people and common courtesy? You think asking for extra cream would be easy but no, it’s like asking someone to cut off their fucking arm.”

“Anyway, so needless to say we head out of my parent’s home in Westchester with a WHOLE upside-down cake just sitting there on the table. He didn’t even OFFER to take it home. You know, it’s just rude. So my mother calls me 15 minutes after we already left and is like, “we made that cake for Brad because you said it was his favorite. Now we have this whole cake sitting here that’s just going to go to waste!” So I tell Brad what my mother says and he basically just shrugs it off. It’s like he doesn’t even register my feelings sometimes. I swear he can be so numb.

…I’m so glad you hear me out this. Sometimes I just think I’m alone in all this - like I’m the one leading the relationship with no help. Like get this: two weeks ago Brad schedules a poker night with his friends on OUR Friday night. He knows Friday night is our night- that’s when he takes me out to dinner and we split a bottle of wine- we’ve been doing it the last month so I really don’t know how he would forget about it or schedule something on top of it…whatever..anyway he goes ahead and plans a (sarcastic tone) “poker night” with his friends- who by the way, are nothing more than a bunch of monkeys, like hello??? Your frat days ended like 5 years ago, get a life! So, he plans this poker night of his on the SAME DAY that we are supposed to go to sushi samba. All I wanted was a night for he and I to really catch up but I guess his “friends” are more important than me. Seriously, when is it my turn? Am I asking too much.”

Wait hold on….You know what? This fucking coffee sucks. I have to go. Ok! bye! Love you!”
8 Sami on Jul 31st, 2008 said:

Heh. “That has to be faked… oh, wait. YASS. That’s IN MY COUNTRY. Never mind, then.”

I have, on occasion, been making a mobile phone call while in line, and got dirty looks as I approached the front from the counter staff, but I knew I deserved it, and didn’t mind. (And, I hasten to add, upon reaching the front of the line, I either hang up or say “Hang on, it’s my turn” and set the phone aside while I conduct my business.)