How have you mistakenly offended people recently?

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- being a touch too visibly astonished that a normal-sized adult could walk into a McDonald's, ask for "the usual," and be handed a large-size Big Mac meal

This reminds me. The waiter at our local Italian restaurant started laughing when I ordered the same thing yet again. :-(

Witnessed this in local Starbutts coffee shop last week. They have a daily trivia question and you get a free shot or whatever if you answer correctly. Question was 'How much did a hamburger cost at the very first McDonalds in 1940'...and there were like 4 options.
SB employee asks me if I want to guess when I place my order. I guessed wrongly. So she asks the next person in line, who is an older woman, maybe in her 50's. SB girl says, and I quote: "Do you want to have a guess? I'm sure you know the answer." And the woman was all, "Excuse me? How old do you think I am?"...and the SB girl did the craziest amount of backpedalling I've ever seen. I laughed and told the SB girl she better give the woman her free shot regardless, to make up for that. LOL!

xpost I stopped going to a place I really liked when they made too much of a deal about my regular order (which through very complicated, Seinfeldian circumstances, they consistently got wrong).

here is the thing: a LOT of people work at a full-scale urban McDonald's. and there's a lot of turnover. and they serve a whole lot of people. per hour. it's almost unimaginable, the number of Big Macs you'd have to eat to just walk up to anyone and ask for the usual. the only way I can wrap my head around this is to imagine that something memorable happened between this guy and the staff that turned him into the Big Mac guy.

Maybe they gave the special sauce.

My husband recently went to the bakery for a roll. An hour or so later he goes back cause he wants to buy another roll.
The woman:"Are you coming to complain or WHAT?" in a rrrrreally aggressive tone.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I mean, WTF what is she on? All the women working there are really unfriendly but this one just tops it. When my husband asked for a sandwich with ham, she replied she didn't have it "Do you want one with cheese?" This isn't so strange except they usually make the sandwich on the spot. She was too lazy to do it. hahaahah

nabs I worked at fast food on & off over and you do recognize the regulars. There is a lot of turnover but the manager or person who's worked there years for whatever reason'll tell you on the first day, 'this guy always orders a whopper cut in half w/extra mustard & onions.' It only takes a week or two of a customer showing up the same time every day before you can tell they'll have a 'usual' thing. I realized I was this customer once at a McDonald's and that was the last time I went there. ;_;

I knew there's hella customers too but you still get a feel for people who show up every day.

They're in the minority so they're memorable.

I used to buy tons of red bean paste. The owner of the shop (annex restaurant) said to me:"You do know you get fat from that cause it has tons of sugar?" Last time I bought it. Positive outcome: I dropped weight. The woman at the fruit/veg shop asked me if I ate all the fruit I bought there. I said yeah. "Well, you can't really tell, cause you are not THAT skinny." (I was about 57 kgs, which is pretty darn skinny.)

People are fucking retarded when I comes to making comments about people's weight. They say things that they think are innocuous but are actually pretty painful insults.

Apparently while trying to help my girlfriend up today I ~made a face~ suggesting great strain.

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People are fucking retarded when I comes to making comments about people's weight. They say things that they think are innocuous but are actually pretty painful insults.

Haha. In Japan, it's entirely acceptable to be simply say, "you got fat." When I see my wife's family, like the first thing out of everyone's mouth is an assessment of weight gain or loss since the last meeting. This is totally normal. People seem fine with this kind of talk, but it often makes me cringe.