Thanks Emergency Vets
I just want to thanks Athens Emergency Vets for stitching that piece of my dog's face back together last night. I was scared and it was very gross, actually a bit horrific for my taste, but she is happy (and whole) again. Well, she's mostly happy (she hates that Elizabethan collar contraption). You guys rock and Franken-maggie says thanks too.
Cart Rage
I am sick and tired of being shoved out of the way by negligent shoppers at the grocery store, actually at every grocery store in Athens. Treat your cart like it's a car folks. At least pretend that you want to move to one side of the aisle when you see another shopper coming. I don't understand why you need to push the buggy down the center then have your friend walk beside you and not move when you see someone coming the other way. Unless you can change the laws of physics and pass right through me, get the hell over. You can both fall into single file line and let me pass or at least recognize my existence as I swerve as far as possible to avoid a last second collision. I have lost track of how many times I have had to stop, move my buggy over, smile and say excuse me, and then get completely ignored. Yesterday, I had to stare a girl down to get her to say excuse me as her friend who was actually in the way just kept walking and forced me to veer over into a pile of snack cakes. Ridiculous. One of my other pet peeves is folks shopping together with two buggies. Is that really necessary? Inconsiderate shopping is a problem across racial lines so what gives? I’m working on a public service announcement to bring this affliction to light; meanwhile, I’m taking out a pelvis or uterus with my buggy next time someone gets in my way. God help me, I’m turning into one of them…
ATS: Current and Accurate Information Please!
Why is that so hard to do?
You have a web site and that should be useful and sometimes it is. But even though the look of it has been updated it seems like the information on it is still only being updated twice a year. The web site should be getting updated every time something changes.
For example: Routes 21 and 22 have been running for months. Why is that route information missing from the web site? Have those routes been shut down? Is so the web site should have that information instead of just having those routes missing completely.
You still have route information up for The Link instead of a message indicating that it's been discontinued.
The web site says that there is no Saturday service to a location I have taken a bus to on a Saturday before. How do I know if that's because the site isn't accurate or not?
You need to have someone updating your web site. This is a college town; it can't be that hard to find someone to do it.
Bartenders
Why do bars hire bartenders with literally no intelligence? If I open a tab and tell you that I am the ONLY one on my tab, you probably shouldn't let some guy down the bar tell you he is on my tab without consulting me. This just leads to later confusion and anger when I have to inform you I am NOT paying for the drinks he put on my tab BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW HIM and I am not financially responsible for your f**k up. I'm pretty sure that it would have taken less than 30 seconds to straighten out the matter, especially since the bartender SERVING me informed you that I only order two drinks, not 9 and also thinks I shouldn't be responsible for your f**k up. I know you think you are the greatest thing that walks the earth because you are a bartender downtown, but get over yourself- you aren't. Oh and when I demand my credit card back and pay you in cash for the charges I made, don't throw my f**king credit card ACROSS the bar in a temper tantrum. All you did was make your buddy lose out on a phenomenal tip because you were an a**hole. Congratulations on losing 5 loyal customers who like to spend money in your bar, owner. Maybe you should hire people that are less of d-bags.
They don't know what the are doing either! We went to three bars downtown and NONE of the bartenders had a clue. A Rum Runner is not a shot, it is a mixed drink! A lemon drop should taste like...you guessed it, a lemon drop!
Oh, I completely agree with you. We ordered lemon drops. And it was awful. It was a drink with a piece of lemon to chase it. That is not what a lemon drop is. It's supposed to taste like lemonade, not gritty vomit.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i can tell you have never worked as a bartender before.
It's f**king hard work.
How the f**k is a bartender going to know that the douche bag at the end of the bar(who knew your name to put something on your tab) is or is not someone you know?
I am sure it was all fixed anyhow.
Maybe you should just pay in cash next time... there are ATM all over downtown.
And why are you paying for two drinks on a checkcard anyhow? most bars have like a 10 dollar minimum.
and i am sure you were acting like a jerk to be treated like a jerk!
f**king hell!
to 04/16
I work in the service industry.
making drinks isnt hard, especially in athens.
stop sounding like an entitled moron and get over it.
I have gone to multiple bars in athens and ordered a gin martini extremely dry with a twist and gotten a dirty vodka martini because, "oh well, dont all martinis have olives?" no they dont you f**king idiot. they do not.
god, maybe you should work in a cubicle, you sound really sensitive to others' opinions.
Getting your card thrown across a bar is not a happy ending in the service industry. that bartender should have clarified with the cardholder before adding charges.
why didnt he use cash? because its 200-f**king-9. what are you, 12? you shouldnt even be at bars.
How the f**k is a bartender going to know that the douche bag at the end of the bar(who knew your name to put something on your tab) is or is not someone you know?
You find out by asking! Why on earth would you let other people add themselves to someone else's tab without the tab owner's permission?
Let me guess, you were the person the OP was complaining about?
As the OP, I found out from MY bartender, that the other bartender said the guy down the card pointed at me and said he was on my tab, therefore not knowing my name, or clarifying with me. And my tab was $14. I bought shots, but thanks for trying to make yourself sound like you know what I ordered or how much they cost. Oh and can I point out really quickly, that "minimums" are against the credit companies policies, so even if you charge a minimum, I'm not required to meet it? Oh and I have bartended before, so I clearly know how to make a drink and and to properly charge people.
Really? Who really cares about this? You went downtown. You had a bad experience. Cry me a river.
And join the freaking club.
Don't want your credit card to be overcharged? Pay cash. Yes, cash. Even in 2009. Things are much more simple that way. Too many things can go wrong when using plastic. Why would you even bother opening a tab for 2 shots anyhow? Maybe you planned on ordering more. Maybe not. Who knows.
On the flip side, if it was a busy weekend night in one of the more popular bars, then the bartender probably remembered you and your name for a grand total of about 2 seconds. They don't know who's on what tab. For you to assume they'll remember is short sided on your part. They'll take an order, quote a price, and charge it to cash, a new credit card, or an existing tab. Simple.
There are quite a few crappy bartenders downtown so I'm not trying to defend them all, but theres also a few really good ones, too. Don't sell them short. You're in a town filled with college kids, so most bars don't have a large pool of overly qualified applicants to choose from when hiring. That's the bottom line.
So take all of that into consideration before you go downtown and get pissed because something goes wrong. Something ALWAYS goes wrong downtown. Deal with it.
-Athens Door Guy
Oversized Umbrellas
Look, I like staying dry as much as the next person. But using an oversized umbrella is not an excuse to block the sidewalk. When someone says "Excuse me" you and whatever you're holding that's in the way is supposed to move out of the way.
Athens Cab Drivers
They are awful! Almost daily a cab turns in front of me and then drives 5-10 miles below the speed limit around downtown. I see them eating, talking on the phone, ANYTHING but DRIVING, which is their job! And are their cars/vans so sh*tty and old that they don't have turn signals? If all this weren't bad enough? How about that Red and Black article a few weeks back about how most of them had rap sheets as long as your arm?
i don't see a problem with the driving. i think the pricing system is bogus. they do it by districts rather than by meter price. It's a scam!
I hate the creepy cab drivers. Please do not:
- Hit on the customer
- Share TMI (medical info for example)
- Ask for personal info
- Try to sell the customer something
"Oooh, you sure are fine! Don't you wanna dump your [significant other] and get with me? No? Aw man, I've been hearing bad news all day. My doctor found something in my colon. I thought I was just constipated. You ever felt like you were carrying a brick in your guts? What, I made you uncomfortable? Here, I got something for you: jewlery! Yeah, I sell 'em on the side. No? Here, take this price list anyway. OK, here we are. Are you sure I can't get your phone number?"
STAB STAB STAB STAB
What I hate about the pricing is the way they charge per person. So while they'll tell you it's "cheaper" to ride with someone else the fare actually doubles in price.
I know! This isn't f-ing New York City, but the prices are the same. $8 to go 2 1/2 blocks! And I wanted to walk, but my boyfriend and the cab driver kept saying that due the the economy, we definitely would have been robbed. Sigh.
Crimes in Athens
What the hell's happening with all the property crimes in Athens? I shouldn't have to worry about my house getting broken into for having a nice television (that I worked and budgeted months for, as responsible adults do), or some piece of garbage breaking into my car to steal my spare change. Don't blame it on the economy either - good people persist in doing good things regardless of circumstance. Those that commit crimes like this are a pathetic bunch that should have been aborted way back when.
Let's take this rant even further - we really need to revive the practice of amputating hands for theft. Don't give me any crap about it being "cruel" because it's not; if the law's on the books and well known, as far as I'm concerned, committing the crime is your way of publicly saying "I've got an amputation fetish, please give me a stump." And "unusual?" I can't see how it is, since it's been a part of many codes and cultures throughout history. Shoot, I'm going to write my congressman with this A-plus idea. Who's with me?
Chopping off hands only works in cultures were the criminals can't turn around and collect disability for not having hands.
Chopping off hands only works in cultures where the criminals can't turn around and collect disability for not having hands.
Being robbed is such a horrible experience. I couldn't sleep for weeks in my home alone after it was broken into. Such an extreme invasion of privacy.
I am not agreeing with theft by any means, I am just saying it isn't right to make such statements as "Don't blame it on the economy either- good people persist in doing good things regardless of circumstance." It is so easy for you to say what you would do if it came down to stealing some spare change or starving. You would be surprised to see what a person will do after not eating for several days. Do not say that circumstances cannot and will not change a "good person". All living organisms strive for one thing... survival.
Hands are not what I would chop off. If unemployment is the source of their poverty, and hence the source of their criminal impulse in the face of starvation, then we should look at the fact that high unemployment is a measure of how many more people there are than jobs. Yet petty criminals have more children (with a greater variety of mothers/fathers) than average Americans - ensuring that there will still be more people than jobs in the next generation causing people to steal rather than starve (and so on and so on and so on...). Vasectomies and tied tubes does not publicly mark the person (which is kind of the point of chopping hands off) but it does cut down on children statistically more likely to be fed by the government and become criminals later down the line.
Yes, I know ANY suggestion that all children aren't God's gift to society is blasphemy and this would never happen, but if we're going to get at the root of the problem...
i have had my home broken into here in athens twice. One of which i was home for and ended quickly.
Cops can not really do much for the pretty thievery
All i can really say is make sure you protect yourself.
Alarm signs help(even if you don't have one) and camera's!(Camera's you can most of the time find at the REstore off Chase St.) .
Sounds a bit overkill but before i lived here i lived in Atlanta. Trust me, it could be a lot worse.
i have had my home broken into here in athens twice. One of which i was home for and ended quickly.
Cops can not really do much for the pretty thievery
All i can really say is make sure you protect yourself.
Alarm signs help(even if you don't have one) and camera's!(Camera's you can most of the time find at the REstore off Chase St.) .
Sounds a bit overkill but before i lived here i lived in Atlanta. Trust me, it could be a lot worse.
Shedding too much light on a situation
What's with the girls/women downtown going out wearing tiny little skirts* and no panties? And don't say "if you've got it, flaunt it," because if you've got it, you don't have to flaunt it by being a speculum and stirrups short of a full gynecological exam.
*strips of fabric
Are you hanging out at Toppers? If not please let me know where you're seeing all of this. I must be missing out!
I'm not the poster...but I see it all the time too, everwhere. I work at a grocery store and it's actually crazy how many butt cheeks I have seen. As soon as it gets above 70 outside, some girls...not all...wear next to nothing, even to the grocery store! I have seen shorts so short that I could actually see the girls butt cheeks meeting with her thighs. Ick.
where are you hanging out?
i think i need to lay down there.
Wow, I need to grocery shopping more often. I'm assuming the OP and the second commenter are either female or a homosexual male???
Rude CSRs
The company you work for requires it's customers to call in to opt-out of having their contact information, financial information, and even their SSN shared with everyone they feel like handing it too.
It's not my fault if you don't have a script for that or can't find it.
It's not my fault if you don't know what I'm talking about.
So instead of changing the subject (really?), putting me on hold for forever, and then disconnecting me how about just transferring me to someone who knows what to do?
The third person I spoke to was able to do it (or at least claimed to, I guess I'll see if I still get spammed in the next couple of weeks) so why couldn't you have just asked him?
WTF AthensVent?
WTF?!
I have my bookmarks and RSS set up to reference .NET and not .COM , and you guys switched it over. That's all fine and good but please make sure the da*n redirect works. It took me forever to find my way back.
Amateurs.
Uh ... yeah, sorry about that.
We were consolidating our domains and we're still not sure what caused the redirect mishaps. We could ask the ISP, but why bother. Apologies.
In the meantime you could have checked out our sister sites:
OR
-- AV.com
It's doing it again ....
If it took you forever to try '.com' you probably shouldn't be calling anyone else an amateur.
i think when dogs have to wear cones it always makes me chuckle so much.
This goes for cats too.
cones are funny.