Categories: ramblings
Date: 14 July 2008 19:27:08
Alternatively, some people don't have the brains God saw fit to give to lettuce.
Catastrophic out of coffee error, and I spent so much time today trapped in The World's Dullest Meeting™ that I didn't manage to get to the coffee shop to buy more, so I had to stop in $tarbucks* on the way home.
Picked up a bag of beans, went to the counter to pay.
"How do you want these ground?"
"No, thanks, just as beans," I said.
"No, how do you want them ground?"
"I don't want them ground, I want them as beans so I can grind them as and when," I explained, as patiently as I could manage (not very).
"We've got to grind them, cos of 'elf'n'safety, innit?"
"What? Can I see your risk assessment, please?"
"Errrrrrr, what?"
"Well, if Health and Safety say that you can't do something, then you must have done a risk assessment to decide it's dangerous. I would like to see that risk assessment, please." [Now sell me my damn coffee lest I come round to your house and inflict my decaffeinated, first-thing-in-the-morning happy smiley morning face on you, with added snarling].
New person appeared, saving me from leaping over the counter and strangling the first one with his apron.
"I'm sorry, miss, he's New**, was it just this you wanted? That will be three ninety, please."
Hah. Never come between a girl and her coffee with some rubbish about health and safety when her mum's an 'elf'n'safety officer (innit).
*Yes, I know, but it was an emergency and I did buy the Fair Trade.
**And will presumably be getting a smack later.