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[norm9]

Yes, we all take more condiments than we need. Feel free to admit it. You want that extra ketchup packet so you save it for later. Sometimes you grab a big ol' handful even. At taco bell, when they ask how many, I always say lots and am usually satisfied that they give more than enough for a few meals in the future too. If I see a napkin dispenser, I take a bunch for my car and home.

What I saw today at the local 7/11 was a bit different though and I think crosses the line of getting a couple of free condiments in your drive thru bag.

Lady buys a $1 spicy chicken biscuit. First she was unable to pay for it on her EBT, as hot food doesn't count. Then after she was told her card didn't work, she THEN proceeds to open it. She asks the clerk, "What should I do now?" The clerk says she will pay for it out of her pocket this time.

Here's the important part of the story. I'm waiting to use the microwave too as I also bought a spicy chicken biscuit so we're now next to each other again. She sits back down in her wheelchair and starts pushing the nacho cheese button and slathering her biscuit with the cheese. Then she goes to the diced onions and puts a handful on it. Then she goes and puts the pico de gallo on it too. Her half eaten biscuit is now dripping the sauce and other shit into the other containers.

I believe she went too far in the gray area of free condiments. How much is too much? I half expected her to suckle the slurpee machine next.

So, does anyone else do this? Take free stuff but go the extra mile to the point where it disgusts another person?

A 7/11 condiment station usually looks like this, so it requires a social contract of sorts to keep clean as it's all open-

 

[ponpo]

Shoutouts to that nice clerk.

And OP you take extra ketchup? Seems weird since ketchup is common and you probably have some at home. If it was something more rare them maybe.

 

[Fat4all]

I mean, it's set out like that to be used freely for the stuff you buy.

Going too far would be sticking your head under the cheese nozzle and going ham.

 

[hamboner]

Wait she opened it after she found out she couldn't pay for it, and then (smarmily?) asks "what now?"

If I were that clerk i'd have half a mind to take it outta her hand and toss it in the trash.

Correct me if I'm misinterpreting.

 

[Poppy]

i take massive fistfuls of fire sauce if i go to taco bell

 

[Fat4all]

i take massive fistfuls of fire sauce if i go to taco bell

yeyeyeyeyeah, tastes good on my eggs in the morning

 

[NoblesseOblige]

I've never bought condiments in my life. Just walk down to McDonald's and take a handful of packets!

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Wait a second

You admit to taking enough free condiments to last for several meals, yet you question this person putting free condiments on a single item she is actively consuming.

Yes, you win an award for being the worst person of the past 3 minutes.

Fortunately, someone else will come along and swipe that award from you within 180 seconds.

 

[see5harp]

As long as you aren't making a mess for other people, or the staff then you should go for it.

 

[Brakke]

you really out here getting mad at a lady on food stamps, in a wheel chair

on behalf of 7/11

 

[Fat4all]

Fortunately, someone else will come along and swipe that award from you within 180 seconds.

It's been a pretty exceptional day, might be sooner.

 

[mf.luder]

Come on OP, you’ve never had frito pie?

 

[Magwik]

I only take the hand wipes from B-Dubs

 

[Alucrid]

i wouldn't touch a station like that with a ten foot pole

 

[Kayhan]

They figure it into the cost.

Steal away.

 

[norm9]

Shoutouts to that nice clerk.

And OP you take extra ketchup? Seems weird since ketchup is common and you probably have some at home. If it was something more rare them maybe.

I have a ketchup bottle in my fridge, but it expired years ago, so I'm always in the market for free ketchup.

Wait she opened it after she found out she couldn't pay for it, and then (smarmily?) asks "what now?"

If I were that clerk i'd have half a mind to take it outta her hand and toss it in the trash.

Correct me if I'm misinterpreting.

I was right behind her and that's what she did. It got my ocd spiking though because I started thinking how many times my biscuit has been handled by dirty hands and if I've been eating things that have been opened and reclosed before.

I told the clerk afterwards that she shouldn't make it a habit to be that nice as people love to take advantage.

 

[Futureman]

sounds like she's disabled and on food stamps. I wouldn't be too critical of someone struggling like that.

 

[Lumination]

Your title makes it seem like you're concerned about the amount of free condiments being taken, and I suspect most of the replies that don't read the actual OP will respond to that.

But it's really about:
1) Asshole opening up their food AFTER finding out they can't pay for it.
2) Asshole dripping sauces all over the open containers after it's been flowing down their half-eaten food.

Absolutely disgusting individual with no class imo. Wheelchair doesn't give you free pass to be a dick.

 

[krae_man]

i take massive fistfuls of fire sauce if i go to taco bell

They give massive fistfuls of sauce. The sauce isn't self serve at the one I frequent. I'll get one Cheezy Gordita crunch, and they will give me like 20 sauce packets.

Also I would never get mad at a poor person slopping on as many toppings as they could to put food in their belly.

 

[ValkyrUser]

Seems fine to me. I imagine if it doesn't get used up it gets thrown out.

 

[StopMakingSense]

After that opening OP....

You might be a terrible person.

 

[Stinkles]

I told the clerk afterwards that she shouldn't make it a habit to be that nice as people love to take advantage.

Congrats. Thread is now about you amplifying cruelty to a disabled lady on food stamps.

 

[Fat4all]

I told the clerk afterwards that she shouldn't make it a habit to be that nice as people love to take advantage.

Why do you have to get involved in someone being nice to someone else?

 

[norm9]

Wait a second

You admit to taking enough free condiments to last for several meals, yet you question this person putting free condiments on a single item she is actively consuming.

Yes, you win an award for being the worst person of the past 3 minutes.

Fortunately, someone else will come along and swipe that award from you within 180 seconds.

you really out here getting mad at a lady on food stamps, in a wheel chair

on behalf of 7/11

I know I sound terrible. But isn't there a line between taking some and taking too much?

 

[Brakke]

I told the clerk afterwards that she shouldn't make it a habit to be that nice as people love to take advantage.

Christ dude.

Find some chill.

 

[Glix]

They can't keep any alternate sweeteners or straws at the station at the Dunkin on my corner because people are disgusting and we can't have nice things.

 

[joe2187]

I run a buffet at a country club every weds and a BBQ every friday night.

It's not technically all you can eat, but we have reservations and always prep our food according to the numbers.

When you fill your plate with more than 10 oysters and leave the seafood bar barren, of shrimp you piled onto your plate and have a soup bowl filled with cocktail sauce, you're a greedy piece of shit that needs to fucking hold it.

When you take the tongs and take all the avacados out of the Avacado chicken leaving it just chicken, you're a fucking scumbag.

When you take all the strawberries off the fruit platter and leave none for anyone else you need to choke on a fork.

When you keep asking for more than two pieces of "Thick" cut prime rib or rib eye...you can go fuck yourself.

I've heard "Just like a buffet in hong kong" more than ten times and I start to panic.

 

[Exis]

I do this a taco bell on the sauces, it is a horrible thing in my end.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

I know I sound terrible. But isn't there a line between taking some and taking too much?

Yeah. The line you're well over and this person was well short of. Like, I don't even care that you go ham over some free taco bell sauce packets, but if you're going to build that glass house, don't throw stones.

I could give you a pass if your core complaint were simply cross contamination. But that doesn't seem to be it at all.

 

[norm9]

Why do you have to get involved in someone being nice to someone else?

I go there just about every day and see the clerk. It's a busy store with lots of shoplifters based on their wall of shame, so it bugged me that this probably isn't the first time someone pulled something like not paying.

 

[Reeks]

My desk drawer at work is filled with Tapatio packages. They make life okay.

I know I sound terrible. But isn't there a line between taking some and taking too much?

Considering the circumstances, not a big deal. I would have paid for the woman's biscuit, too, by the way. Hope you never know what it's like to be hungry and wheelchair bound...

 

[Night Angel]

I am the reason they stopped leaving Chick-fil-a sauces out for people to take. I'd take 3 for my current meal and 5 for future chicken meals at home. In college people would take handfuls from the cafeteria no matter where they ate. Mmmmmmm

 

[Acerac]

I know I sound terrible. But isn't there a line between taking some and taking too much?

Does the sign indicate that there is a limit?

Granted, being a slob and causing a mess is a jerk move, but as long as they are actively using the condiments on food that was purchased, no. Free condiments are free, even if you take more than what some others would find appetizing.

 

[Guevara]

I will be requiring a lot of condiments. Fill the bag.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Yes, we all take more condiments than we need. Feel free to admit it. You want that extra ketchup packet so you save it for later. Sometimes you grab a big ol' handful even. At taco bell, when they ask how many, I always say lots and am usually satisfied that they give more than enough for a few meals in the future too. If I see a napkin dispenser, I take a bunch for my car and home.

...

So, does anyone else do this? Take free stuff but go the extra mile to the point where it disgusts another person?

BRUH

 

[jiggle]

Well aren't you judgemental

 

[SummitAve]

Her actions seem reasonable given she can't afford some gas station garbage. What's harder to understand is why you are choosing to eat the exact same thing.

 

[wedca]

You want that extra ketchup packet so you save it for later. Sometimes you grab a big ol' handful even.

I don't do this and I give them back some packets if they give me too many.

 

[TickleMeElbow]

I asked for ketchup at a Wendy's drive through once, and when I opened the bag there were legit like 12 packets in there lol. I had to remove a layer of ketchup packets to get to my food.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Wait a second

You admit to taking enough free condiments to last for several meals, yet you question this person putting free condiments on a single item she is actively consuming.

Yes, you win an award for being the worst person of the past 3 minutes.

Fortunately, someone else will come along and swipe that award from you within 180 seconds.

You win this thread

I know I sound terrible. But isn't there a line between taking some and taking too much?

Well, too much might be, say...

I have a ketchup bottle in my fridge, but it expired years ago, so I'm always in the market for free ketchup.

...Abusively collecting ketchup packets because you're too cheap to pay less than $3 for a common household item that lasts for months, maybe?

 

[norm9]

Her actions seem reasonable given she can't afford some gas station garbage. What's harder to understand is why you are choosing to eat the exact same thing.

It costs a dollar.

 

[Nimajneb]

First she was unable to pay for it on her EBT

Stealth welfare shaming thread?

 

[sh4mike]

I always felt a bit guilty on the Baha Fresh salsa bar. I must have gone through a pound of pico every time.

 

[Glix]

I run a buffet at a country club every weds and a BBQ every friday night.

It's not technically all you can eat, but we have reservations and always prep our food according to the numbers.

When you fill your plate with more than 10 oysters and leave the seafood bar barren, of shrimp you piled onto your plate and have a soup bowl filled with cocktail sauce, you're a greedy piece of shit that needs to fucking hold it.

When you take the tongs and take all the avacados out of the Avacado chicken leaving it just chicken, you're a fucking scumbag.

When you take all the strawberries off the fruit platter and leave none for anyone else you need to choke on a fork.

When you keep asking for more than two pieces of "Thick" cut prime rib or rib eye...you can go fuck yourself.

I've heard "Just like a buffet in hong kong" more than ten times and I start to panic.

As someone who worked in catering for over a decade, this is my favorite GAF post in a long time. Especially the part about the avacado.

 

[Walter White Walker]

Can't say I have a habit of intentionally taking more condiments than I need for whatever I'm buying.

 

[Aikidoka]

Um if she's on welfare then it seems like she's just trying to make the most of the opportunity. I wouldn't care either way but, intellectually, this situation makes more sense than just someone like me who is too lazy to be careful every now and then.

 

[YuriLowell]

I wish Chic-fil-a would leave out the CFA sauce.
I would probably take 10 of them.

 

[Garrett 2U]

When I worked at Whole Foods, we had a regular customer who would purchase one item and take with him an entire stack of the takeout containers, a container of napkins, and a bucket of disposable silverware.

The first couple of times nobody said anything about it, but eventually management decided to intervene.
I understand the need, but there has to be a better outlet of access for those in need.

Someone is in charge or ordering condiments and utilities in advance.
If the store runs out of stock, that responsibility falls on that employee. And as small of an issue as that seems, purchasing stock is seen as management experience in retail and is crucial in moving up.
So that type of behavior can really hurt a retail employee's upward momentum.

 

[v1lla21]

Who cares? Lol. You're overreacting to petty shit.

If it's free, more for me.
Go to the taqueria and load up on salsas for days.

 

[shawnbuddy]

Yes, we all take more condiments than we need. Feel free to admit it. You want that extra ketchup packet so you save it for later. Sometimes you grab a big ol' handful even. At taco bell, when they ask how many, I always say lots and am usually satisfied that they give more than enough for a few meals in the future too. If I see a napkin dispenser, I take a bunch for my car and home.

I think even this is too far. That cost just gets passed on to everyone else. Just take what you need for the current meal and no more.