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"Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ
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| Posted by: James |
8/22/2008 10:24 AM |
Sometimes common courtesy trumps what you can legally or technically do and I think I encountered such a case yesterday. A co-worker and I were getting a post-lunch coffee at the Starbucks inside the Target by work yesterday. We were behind only a mom and her kid. Sure, it was annoying enough for them to take forever to order but that wasn’t the worst of it. Since we were in a Target and the Starbucks workers are actually Target employees, they can ring up anything you’ve bought in the store.
Even that is OK if you have a few items and don’t want to wait in another lane to checkout. If you qualify for the Express Lane, you get a pass. What’s NOT OK is if people are behind you in line just to get coffee and you happen to have 40+ items that you decide to have the Starbucks employees also ring up. Not cool, lady, not cool at all. When you have a cartful of items to purchase, do it in the actual checkout lane. Drink your coffee while you’re waiting.
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If there’s one thing I won’t miss when I leave this state, it’s the business-based proselytizing everywhere you look. This truck today got me to thinking whatever happened to the separation of Church and Freight? (Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal and tip your waitresses well).
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By KB's on
8/22/2008 10:43 AM |
| Is he hauling "perish"able foods?? |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/22/2008 10:46 AM |
| Good one! ba-DUMP!!!! |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By JD on
8/22/2008 12:27 PM |
| Jesus ROCKS and/or ROLLS.......... |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Erich on
8/22/2008 2:21 PM |
| That moving co.'s motto "Good shepherd movers - moving souls to heaven since 32 BC" |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Jason's Mom on
8/22/2008 3:10 PM |
| Good thing believers have everlasting life, since that's how long it'll take the movers to deliver your stuff....and as for Starbucks, nothing makes me more angry than a mother and kid in line at 7:50am, slowing down the line as the kid ponders the variety of choices: "Milk? Juice? Cocoa?" "No, I want Jamba Juice!" "We're not at Jamba Juice." "I WANT JAMBA JUICE." And so on... |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By The General on
8/22/2008 4:33 PM |
| I understand your stance on this - I really do - but why is it so wrong to 'advertise for God'? Would you rather be following a truck with a Hooters ad or...okay maybe not a good question...um, anyway - when did it become wrong to profess one's faith in a supreme being? How does everything else get a pass? |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Ratt on
8/22/2008 4:35 PM |
| Instead of bitching about some lady in line at Starfuck's with a cartful of items (and it is a valid complaint, don't get me wrong), why don't you go down the road to Dunkin Donuts where you can get coffee that's just as good for $3 less. You yuppie whiner! LOL |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By The General on
8/22/2008 4:36 PM |
| P.S. - church and freight - that was very good. Here's hoping your humor sustains you on your road to eternal damnation... |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/22/2008 4:36 PM |
| Generalissimo, Atlanta is really besotted with rampant advertising everywhere, making a marginal city even tackier. All forms of advertising bug me, including stuff on trucks. They even have trucks down here that are literally nothing but moving billboards. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/22/2008 4:41 PM |
| Dunkin Donuts coffee is NOT better than Starbucks, no matter how many people claim that. I'm not a fan of arabica beans. Second, I only drink black coffee so the price difference is marginal. I never understood the hatred for Starbucks, as they brought good coffee to the masses, much like what Sam Adams did for the average US beer drinker. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/22/2008 4:46 PM |
| And yes, before someone points it out, Starbucks is one of those exceptions that escapes my wrath concerning chains. I harbor no ill will towards most companies that are enriching our food and drink palate in this fine country of ours. Starbucks doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator and I love that. If that makes me a snob, then so be it. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By TSAC on
8/23/2008 3:21 PM |
| America runs on Dunkin'! Understand that Bit..! |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By KB's on
8/24/2008 2:13 PM |
| Time to get the French Press and any bean you like. Screw overpriced anything. I'll grind my own, thank you very much. Have you tried the Atlanta native J Martinez coffee yet? Excellent stuff and wide variety. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/24/2008 4:09 PM |
| The nice thing is at work we all chip in and each bring a bag of good coffee to brew. Saves $$$ and I can count on both hands the time I go to a coffeehouse in a 6 month timeframe. Since I drink black, its gotta be good tasting. |
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"Jesus Christ!" sin/sign the ticket here, distracted driver |
By Syl on
8/25/2008 9:39 AM |
| The driver in the truck is gonna die. Just sayin'... I don't care for the distraction of all that TEXT. What if the reader has never heard/seen this before and wants to actually read the message - it's a moving road hazard. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Prostheletize til you drop and then stop judging me. Just sayin'. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Just say no to $$$ coffee. Just say: oh I thought this was the coffee line, not the over 12 items checkout line. At least you'll get a look of some sort to treasure/discuss. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Ratt on
8/25/2008 11:39 AM |
| SNOB! LOL Think of all the African kids you could feed with that $4 a day.....(if Sally Struthers doesn't greet the food truck first) |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By TimV. on
8/25/2008 12:15 PM |
| Obviously, everyone in this trucking agency is so focused on John3:16 that they haven't noticed that one of the truck's brake lights are out. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/25/2008 12:22 PM |
| Good catch!!! I guess the Lord gave his only begotten son but forgot to check his only forgotten taillight. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By The General on
8/25/2008 1:03 PM |
| Maybe the burned-out light was the hope for your eternal soul. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Erich on
8/25/2008 1:33 PM |
| James: "Jesus, How come on the road of life, when I look backward there are two sets of tire tracks except when the road got all treacherous and dangerous, then there is only one set of tire tracks?"......Jesus: "My son, there is only one set of tire tracks because you are a shitty driver and I got the f*ck out of the way." |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/25/2008 1:35 PM |
| To quote the Bangles "Is this burning an eternal flame?" Or was is Siouxsie and the Banshees? |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Tim V. on
8/25/2008 1:52 PM |
| Leave it to James to break out not only a 'Bangles' reference/quote, but following it up immediately with (what I assume to be a properly spelled) reference to whoever in the hell 'Siouxsie and the Banshees' is....The Culture Club is probably next - buckle your seatbelts everyone. |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/25/2008 1:54 PM |
| I saw Culture Club in Chicago! They were in a show with Erasure and Howard Jones Band. :) |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Tim V. on
8/25/2008 1:56 PM |
| "I saw Culture Club in Chicago!" is right behind "I just rubbed my privates with a cheese grater!" on my ever growing list of things I'll never say.... |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By James on
8/25/2008 2:11 PM |
| If you need me to make a manly statement, I also saw Metallica 6 times and saw Anthrax and the Misfits co-headline. :) |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Tim V. on
8/25/2008 3:18 PM |
| It has nothing to do with manliness, but everything to do with the fact that I think the Culture Club is painfully awful music. Just one man's opinion..... |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Erich on
8/25/2008 4:44 PM |
| It doesn't matter how many "Manly" things you try and use in your defense....$250,000 - nuff said! |
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Re: "Jesus Christ, lady!" and Trucks For Christ |
By Syl on
8/26/2008 10:08 AM |
| That Tim V guy is sort of funny... "Carry me home to Jesus and please excuse the burnt out brake light, Lord." |
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