This is not the flame free confessions thread!
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Unless itās running!
I gotta get back in my groove. It fell away when i got busy, and I havenāt buckled down and gotten back to it.
Restaurants are not your fucking grocery stores.
Please elaborate. I agree, but Iād like to know your thinking behind this.
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There are three main groups of people who do this.
1.) People who assume there is some magical secret shared menu that can be ordered at any restaurant because they have the palate of a child. They āknowā you actually have all the stuff stocked, but donāt want to make them chicken tenders instead of a 7 course tasting menu because youāre too arrogant.
2.) Ship of Theseus people who want to change every component and are suprised you canāt just order a normal hamburger and fries, but sub the bread for a bagel, the patty for bologna, and can I get spaghetti instead of fries?
3.) People who know the cost of everything, but not the value. They donāt care about the experience or techniques, just the dollars to calorie ratio, so they always try to argue about pricing.
In each case they would be happier taking ownership of the entire food procurment and preparation process.
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I know one of these. She does the same thing at home too!
An older couple used to always come out with us as part of a group on friday nights. Nothing crazy, just Eat-n-Park or Applebees, and would ALWAYS try to get either a free meal or free stuff. I hated them. It was embarrassing and undignified.
I actually started cracking up when a manager was summoned one time. He comes out, looks at their plates (messy, but empty) and goes āNo way. You both ate the whole meal then complained. If it was two bites, sure, but you finished it.ā.
Guy tries raising his voice a little. Manager: āYou can leave or I can have you removed. Door is that way 
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Me: 
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My parents loved eat-n-park down on McKnight Rdā¦all you can eat soup and salad barā¦back in the 70s
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Yeah, people are weird.
I want to clarify (and this is your fault, you magnificent bastard, for actually making me think over this,) that this is not about a specific industry, but the attitude of people who looks at raw components and a finished product then thinks āI could do that, itās not that hard.ā
Ok, so do it yourself. Go to the grocery store and haggle there. Learn to cook something that you can survive off of and use to seduce another human, eat a pile of raw ants and ox testicle tartar because you like it. That dosenāt mean Iām going to.
Iām sure you have tons of dumb stories with your work and people thinking the same thing. Imagine Elon Musk comes in and wants you to make bullet-proof stained glass windows for the new SaturnFucker Alpha rocket, then complains that he could do it.
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Its my life story. Decades of this.
Right now, I weld a little for my old tree buddy. Heās great. I have a big box of skills, and he points me in the right direction with ideas. End of the day, we shake hands, tip our glasses, and thank god weāre still alive.
Best one ever though: Guy I went to meetings with asks to pick my brain on tree stuff. After discussing, I highly recommend he call a professional. He declines, saying he already got a couple of bids and theyāre crazy. Heāll do it himself. I wish him good luck and to be careful.
Dude comes stumbling in a few weeks later- on crutches, arm casted, black eye and stitches. (Iām thinking relapse, wrecked car, etc.) Nope. He got a folding ladder from Sears and a pole saw, and went at it. He cut the branch part way, it swung down and hit the ladder- knocking him off breaking his wrist and ankle. Then it swung itself loose and came down smacking him in the head, splitting his forehead and damaging his eye.
I nod, express empathy, and move on.
3 months later we pull up to a job, and out walks Dude! He sees me and says āWhat are you doing here?ā
āIām here to cut the trees man!ā
Then oh! All of the lights come on and he understands why like a dozen people told him to talk to me about getting his trees trimmed. 
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And he didnāt really mean what he said about those guys being a bunch of rip off yadda yaddaā¦ .
Church in Detroit. No shit. That 100% happened. Glaziers are awesome, but boy, they hate giving up a piece of their pie for frames.
I ate at a high end French restaurant one time and asked for salt and pepper.
The waiter told me, āThe Chef seasons the food.ā
He was right.
People go off menu, substitute like you said, then claim the restaurant is bad because their food didnāt taste good.
No kidding?
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I like that one too! At least last time I went. That was our breakfast spot when we were doing a big clear cut up in Butler Co.
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We see the same thing in training.
āI replaced the squats in Super Squats with the leg press because squats make my back hurt, and instead of a gallon of milk a day I drank cashew milk. I didnāt put on any muscle: this program sucksā
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Cashews have nipples, lol???
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Is it still there???
I actually sympathise with the ppl in categories 2) and 3)
which is why I do this
I do enjoy going to super high end places or unique places as a learning experience though and will eat everything put in front of me, probably while taking notes
What bothers me is when social situations more or less force me to eat out at a restaurant where thereās nothing to learn. Even if someone else is paying, I donāt like not having control over whatās being put into it for body comp reasons
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Not sure. I havenāt been up that way in a long time. Its a pretty solid company though, so it might be. The one nearest me has been there for like 50 years or something.
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Why not?
I will pay extra, if you can do it 
Last year there was a restaurant - that I will not name. It is a regional pizza / Italian place - usually very good. They were rude as shit to me over an ask for something different (mind you I was spending over $2,000.00 there at the time).
Long story short - I bought the building they are in 3 months ago and their lease comes up for renewal December 31st.
Oops.
My hot take - donāt be a cocksucker to people because you have no idea who they might be now or in the future.
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Exactly!