So, I was out with a few of my amazing friend’s this last weekend….We went to see The Watchmen and then ate at TGI Friday’s….It was a fun Saturday night, but I had to work that day, and I was even more irratable than usual….

Two giant pet peeves of mine were in full display at TGI’s (sorta like Dr. Manhattan’s junk in the movie…if you saw it, you know what i mean).

Why, in the name of all things sacred, is it necessary to delineate between the customer’s receipt copy, and the merchant’s copy?   THEY ARE THE FREAKING SAME! 

I am well aware of the fact you need a copy, you stupid merchant, and I do not need you to tell me which one….I can see they both reflect the same transactions…I do not need direction on which one to leave.  My guess is if I leave either one, you will be just fine, because amazingly they both note I had a chicken sandwhich that cost ten bucks.  Thank you though, for being so kind, and illiminating any possible confusion….otherwise who knows how long I may have been sitting there wondering which copy I needed to leave….It could have been hours, maybe days….Thank goodness you were so kind as to note conveniently at the bottom ,which exact copy I was to leave. 

But, then, after stewing in fury, wondering exactly how anyone could be so insane as to think it was necessary to mark the two receipts, I  realized why this is so….to prevent the poor waiters from having to answer the endless questions from the masses….”ummmm…excuse me, which copy do I leave?”….because yes….there are many out there who would ask this question, and to preserve what little sanity our waiters have, it was deemed necessary to specifically note which copy of the EXACT SAME RECEIPT was needed to be left for the merchant, so as to avoid this rediculous…..this makes me so bitter.

And if this was not enough, It was my luck that someone in TGI’s just happened to have a birthday….so I was destined once again to sit through yet another worthless and useless rendition of the Birthday song.   No, no, no….we can’t possibly sing Happy Birthday…This is TGI Fridays after all…oh no, we must make up our own special version of the birthday song, so as to be sure to make a good impression….I mean didn’t you hear it?  It was like the birthday song, but we clapped really fast and said happy birthday at least five times more than normal, with an emphatic “HEY” at the end…wasn’t that great?

NO IT IS NOT.  Just sing Happy Birthday you idiots!  For the love, just sing the friggen song we all know and be done with it! you can even shorten it!  Just don’t make up your own….no one cares!    AHHHHHHHHH!!!

But “HEY”, at least TGI Fridays serves a chicken sandwhich on garlic toast, which is actually a darn good idea (but they serve some entrees on square plates, some on rectangle plates, and some on the old fashioned round ones…why?  I have no idea, but I want to cry just thinking about it….who really comes up with this crap?).

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