"Reddit. What will you never order at a restaurant?"
Not What, But When...
"I'll never order 10 minutes before closing."- bearstrugglethunder
Speaking From Experience
"Ice in my drink."
"After decades in the industry, I've only ever seen one change the ice machine filters and clean the bin regularly."-Anna_Namoose
"I have almost twenty years of experience managing bars and restaurants."
"What do you think I won't get? "
"Stylish or not?"
"Ice."
"In everything."
"I can assure you that I have saw far more appalling ice machines in back of houses than immaculate ones."- Tricky_Routine138
ice waiting GIF by tarninabarnGiphyStay Consistent
"Anything outside of what their core business is."
"Not ordering fish at a steakhouse, a burger at a Mexican restaurant etc."- KinkyPTDoc
Why Pay For What You Can Make Yourself?
"Quesadilla."
"I'm not paying for tortillas and cheese."
"I always have that sh*t at home."- DGex
"Pasta."
"I can make it at home, I'm a decent cook and can make most pasta dishes at home."
'I eat out to have foods I can't make."
'I'm usually disappointed when I do order it."- bensmom2020
"Tuna fish sandwich."- Limp-Persimmon-5729
"A grilled cheese sandwich."
"There's just no way a restaurant can elevate it to make it worth the cost."- manderifffic
Hungry Grilled Cheese GIF by U by Kotex BrandGiphyCasear, Cobb, Waldorf...NOPE!
"Salad."
"It’s so cheap to buy the ingredients and most restaurant salad comes from a bag."
"It’s just dumb in 85% of the cases."- humancalculus
"$17+ salad."- Monowakari
Split It, Maybe?
"Oh, I've got a good one."
"Do not order the lasagna if you visit Brio Tucsan Grille."
"It's not awful, fantastic, or extraordinary; it's just normal."
"But why, you say, would you advise against eating a typical meal?"
"Considering that it contained 5200 calories. calories for two days."
"When I removed empty dishes from the table in front of guests, I would shudder."- KeyPersimmon445
If You Can't See The Sea, Maybe Avoid Seafood...
"In a location not known for its seafood, lobster."
"Where are they going to get lobster, anyway?"- WillingnessInner9666
"Rocky Mountain Oysters."- Rollin_Soul_O
Eight Is A Few Too Many Legs...
"Anything cephalopod."- FarewellMyQueen
Pbs Nature Sea GIF by Nature on PBSGiphyUnless They Pick The Leaves Themselves...
"Tea."
'Compared to how much it costs to make at home, it's stupidly overpriced at restaurants."- Pure_Block_5309
There's nothing wrong with being a picky eater.
That being said, it's always worth trying something new before deciding you don't like it.
Even if no one should blame you for refusing to order sushi at a pizza counter.
Basically, people who aren't nice
"People who don't apologize for their mistakes, blame others for their problems, and generally complain without doing anything about their situation."
"Oh, and generally a**holes."- NerdyDadGuy1981
"People who are overly rude and constantly laugh it off and call themselves 'a**holes' as if it is an uncontrollable character trait."- Business_Grand7665
Don't you twist my words around!
"People that distort what you said."- Mystery_I
real housewives lies GIF by leeannelockenGiphyJust take some responsibility!
"People who can never admit they're wrong about anything."
"No matter how blatantly wrong."- Rachfo44
Say it to my face!
"The kind that talks behind your back."- 0breanna0
Are you sure about that?
"Someone who thinks they already know everything."- Fragrant-Crow-4513
know it all boomerang GIFGiphyThen why aren't I laughing?
"Someone that puts you down in front of your other friends.. 'as a joke'."- motherfugher
How well do you actually know them?
"People who abuse your trust and honesty to manipulate you, especially when they disguise it so well."
"Had it one too many times, thankfully gets easier to spot but some people are freakishly good at it."- nothingjustk
Yeah, well mine's better!
"One uppers."- BasedChickenTendie
kristen wiig television GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphySomeone needs a lesson in self respect...
"I'm a woman."
"Had a classmate strike a conversation with me for the first time."
"2 minutes in said she doesn't have female friends because all women are b*tches."
"Why are you talking to me then?"
"What do you think you are?"- Minimum_Greedy
As Jane Austen famously explored in Pride and Prejudice, first impressions can often be misleading.
But every now and then, they can give a crystal clear depiction of who someone really is.
Which could easily be someone you do not want to be friends with.
Hey, you never know...
"Lottery."
"Working at a gas station watching people blow their whole paycheck and win $200 after spending $600."
"Then celebrating by buying more."
"'I won $200!'”
"B*tch you’re in the hole by $400, this week." - Crystalbow.
GiphyThe sun is good enough for me.
"Use a tanning bed." - darecountydramaqueen.
My Health Comes First.
"Smoke a cigarette."
"My parents have smoked since they were teenagers and I had a terrible cough the entire time I lived with them."
"Since I've moved out, the cough is gone."
"Also my mom has COPD from smoking and has yet to quit, even though her dad died of COPD from smoking."
"I know how my mom will die and I hate it. I'm never touching that garbage." - UrdnotChivay·.
"A tame one, but smoke tobacco."
"My dad has always smoked like a chimney and I've seen what it's done to his lungs, his teeth, the way he and his clothes smell."
"I love the man, but there was no greater deterrent to me smoking growing up than seeing what happens to someone after 40 years of near-constant smoking."
"It's just disgusting."
"I'm not the sort of person who has ever done drugs more than a couple of times, and I stopped drinking years ago, primarily because I'm an a**hole that I don't like when drunk and high, but I'd still rather do those than smoke cigarettes, and it's frankly baffling that cigarettes are still legal and everywhere." - Koras.
Mad Men Smoking GIF by guardianGiphyThere's Only One For Me.
"Cheat on my significant other".- SuvenPan.
"I would never cheat on my wife."
"My personal belief is that there is no morally acceptable excuse for doing so." - irish2685.
same old love hold hands GIF by Selena GomezGiphyVery Important Rituals
"Go to bed without saying goodnight to my cat." - lewie2494.
sleepy cat GIFGiphyI'd Rather Wait Till The Big Day
"Throwing a gender reveal party." - Bretters_METAL.
I Can Smell Your Lies
"Trust a fart."
"That’s my #1 life rule. Never trust a fart."- leftofthenormal.
I Do... NOT
"I will never marry you."
"We can be friends though."
"I’m cool with that."- Constant_Fig_8648.
rejected the young and the restless GIF by CBSGiphyThere are better ways to spend my money.
"Buy battlefield 2042."- SHAMEanBLAME
Make America Great Again... by never being my friend!
"Befriend a Republican."- ronmsmithjr
Too far and too dangerous!
"Travel to Australia."
"Everything that can kill you lives there."- violettleafu
Flag Australia GIF by MaytronicsGiphyHas anyone?
"Buy YouTube premium."- Firm_Ad5280
Some words are more harmful than weapons
"Say the N-word.'
'I don't care if the whole population of black people gave me the okay to say the other word and nobody would beat me for it."
"I would never say the N-word."
"My father was very racist person when I was a growing up as a little kid so I hurt him say it a lot and didn't realize until years later how racist that was." - SavageKitsune762·
That chapter is finished!
"Go back to my ex."
"Even if he is the last person on earth, f*ck him"
'Even if f*cking him is to keep me alive I would rather die."
"Seriously."
"I. Would. Chose. Death."- No-Front-673
I'll wait for you in the lodge...
"Don't want to go skiing or snowboarding."
"Sounds like a dumb way to die or get paralyzed."- DanSRedskins·
ski lol GIF by Outside TVGiphyNever let them forget
"End a call to my parents or friend without saying love you first."
"Also applies when i’ve seen them in person."- clmrsmn
What's in a name?
"Name my kid Asher."
"It’s the worst name."
"I would say 'no offense people named Asher'.'"
"But you know what?"
"Some offense."
"Some. Offense."- Poptart102938
No way are you getting me up there!
"Skydive."
" Don’t even care for the 'for a billion dollars you would'."
"Nope."
'I hate being in a plane let alone jumping out mid flight."- Maximum_Malone·
Cow Skydiving GIF by Pablo LopezGiphyWhether it goes against your personal beliefs, makes you feel uncomfortable, or just plain doesn't interest you, it's always OK to say "no".
I will not give my patronage to Chick-Fil-A. How you spend your support in LGBTQIA+ issues is important to me.
A Never Clicker
Ads on Ads on AdsGiphy"Clicking on the ads that are at the top of my Google search. I will scroll all the way down to click on the exact same link."
LurkeyMcLurkersen
I have no tolerance...
"Cable TV, I’m not going to pay $120 a month for something and still have it be 1/3 commercials, I spend half as much and have everything I need whenever I want it with no ads."
CoolGuyZone069
"Cable TV is so INFURIATING. I dog sit for my grandparents and their internet can be god awful and I'm stuck watching their cable tv... I want to claw my eyes out everytime. It's legit mostly commercials. I have no tolerance for it anymore."
Frizzycatt
'taking what you can get'
"My wife hasn’t been in a Walmart in 20 years. I admire her commitment and they are starting to feel the pressure."
njdevil956
"Same. 'No ethical consumption' etc aside, Walmart is contemptuous of its customers as well as its workers. It's stunning how few people they have running the stores now, and that hurts customers AND workers, as well as the level of actual service. What's the point of having department counters when they're all empty?"
"The quality is nonexistent, getting groceries is an excersise in 'taking what you can get' because they intentionally limit their selection to maximize return on bulk orders (hence, half an aisle of mac and cheese for instance), and the 'here's a pallet, grab it or whatever' method of leaving half-opened shipments of groceries in the aisle has turned the whole place into an uninviting supply depot. Only way I walk back into WalMart is if the zombies rise."
Mr_Shakes
but never again...
"Grubhub, for making me suffer through that cringy ad."
draiman
"For me, Postmates. They didn’t bring what we ordered. Then I called them, they said they can’t rectify it. Then after a long back and forth whoever was there spoke to their manager, and said fine, they’ll do it this once, but never again. So guess who is never again getting my business. I can’t just pay for a service and not receive it, obviously."
rstgrpr
Gross
Kylie Jenner Selfie GIF by ADWEEKGiphy"Forbes for calling Kylie Jenner a 'self-made' billionaire."
mr-nobody_458623
I am so over the any name with a K at this point. And all because of that family.
Not Them!
the loud house trash GIF by NickelodeonGiphy"Nestle bottled water. (Also, yes Nestle anything, but they own so much it's hard to avoid, f**k their water program in particular)."
SomethingWithLegs
A slightly more legal pyramid scheme...
"MLM companies. I've had to cut old friends out of my life due to this."
Individual_Lemon_139
"I'm a small business owner and sell at a lot of markets - literally every market is chock full of scentsy/Mary kay/paparazzi/etc. I don't support MLMs as a rule but I also have to befriend the Mary Kay lady and the pampered chef lady because they're the head of the local small business coalition. MLMs aren't small businesses though IMO."
ktheway
In Video
"Microtransactions in video games. Not even once!!"
Napp2dope
"Same. At first it was for principle. I shouldn’t pay a bunch of extra money to get to play the game when I already paid for it. Then it became out of a slight fear. Met a few ppl once that said they spent 6-10k a year on those transactions for a free mobile game. They said so casually to that I realized how much of an addiction it can become."
Jac1596
Stay Away
"Heroin."
ChandlerBingChilling
"Right on! Too many friends and classmates I grew up with are gone now because of that sh*t. Just lost another one 2 days ago, man. Breaks my f**king heart."
"They had kids and everything, and now they're without fathers, mothers, or both. It hits even harder when you thought they were getting on the other side of it and you were rooting for them. It's crazy to look back and remember them as kids, and just like that, they're not here anymore. We're all only in our 30s. This isn't ok."
Abject_Presentation8
Back off Ron...
crazy tom cruise GIFGiphy"Scientologists."
CDNGooner1
"Yes! I worked for a place that forced me to take L. Ron Hubbard courses! I had to take a whole course on how to control people in a workplace!"
Sammie2Dope
Damn Ed
"Uncle Ed’s oil shop. They damaged my car when I was 17 and then tried to tell me I was lying to them and my story changed. It never changed and the ended up sending it to a mechanic to fix their mistake. I’ve never used them since. I’ve also told countless people this so who knows how many potential customers they’ve lost."
Robadamous
Sorry Mark...
"Facebook."
Tanyaschmidt
"I’m on my 6th year of boycotting Facebook. Looking forward to the day I’ve boycotted longer than I was on it."
zeldasusername
"I'm on year 4. Lord give me strength. Own two businesses and thankfully my employees take care of fb messages. Damn I hate FB. It's full of nothing but happy stories about shitty/toxic relationships and ads and garbage."
dmMatrix
Never Again
"I had one pair of Nike shoes and the back part of the inside by where my heel/ankle is got worn open which happens to most of my shoes but there was this sharp bit of plastic in it that would literally cut my foot and make it bleed. I now will not buy them ever again because of that, sucks because I already was picky with sneakers and now I avoid a while brand."
iimuffinsaur
Over It
the mask time GIFGiphy"Award shows, they're all boring and most of the time are rigged."
Hour-Wheel-2219
When in NC
"This one gas station, when I first moved to NC I would buy beer every few days (I was 21 and lived with fellow young connoisseurs of cheap beer) and they had no problem then this new guy denied me for out of state ID, and he was rude AF about it, told me to put the beer back and told him to do it himself, it's his job. Walked next door and bought my beer. Looking back it's petty but seriously there was no need to be rude."
Psyco_diver
TWO DOORS DOWN
"Old age nursing homes. They left my 89 year old granddad with Parkinsons sitting in a shit filled diaper... for seven hours straight. He yelled out for help and pressed his emergency life buttons twenty times in total. They was no reason the staff wouldn't have heard him, as a large group of them were sitting on their phones just TWO DOORS down from his room at the time. The smell was so bad we had to leave his bedroom windows open for a week, and most of the poop was crusted by that point."
Affectionate-Feed538
Send it Back
"Wayfair. I ordered a poker table from them and after three months all that happened was that it went from one of their warehouses to another of their warehouses. When I canceled the order, they charged me a $250 fee to send it back to the original warehouse."
ostentia
Ticked Off...
Hungry Lets Eat GIF by TikTokGiphy"Tiktok. It’s not like I’ll completely ignore my friends that show me funny ones, but I refuse to download the app and get sucked into it like so many people have."
brutesquad98
Vandal
"We’re renting in an HOA and they sent us a fine because our nine-year-old was 'vandalizing property by throwing large chunks of ice at cars and houses.' There was video. He had thrown a snowball at his friend 20 feet away from property. His friend threw a snowball in the general direction of the parking lot."
"His second 'offense' was 'damaging traffic cones.' Someone kicked one over near the bus stop. I ripped the HOA a new a**hole and our landlord threatened to sue if they ever pull that bulls**t again."
hannahmel
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Redditor koyanggi6563 asked:
"What's something that should never be asked on a first date?"
Let's see what people had to say.
The hard hitting questions.
"On a first date, my date asked me what percent of women I had sex with on first dates."
- nyle2
"Percentage???? Were they a statistician???"
"60% of the time it works every time."
- Redditor
"What's your body count?"
"'You mean as my hobby or for my job?'"
"'83 confirmed kills. Why?'"
- Dahns
Kim Kardashian Eww GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphyFinancial questions.
"How much money I have."
"Before I was married, I went on a date with a woman who asked me on the first date, how financially comfortable I was."
"We had known each other for a few weeks (mutual friend). I think she asked because she deducted that I lived alone in a house I owned, at age 25, and it probably appeared that I didn't work (was self employed)."
"As soon as she asked, it was obvious why she pushed us to try dating because she saw money."
"She ended up marrying for money, but not mine. It's obvious there's a prenup, because she's miserable, and not leaving him."
"Ask me about my job... we're fine. Specific questions about my salary or savings... I nope out."
- ghost882
A little oversharing.
"I had a girl once talk about how her period was so bad this month it caused her chest to break out in hives. She then wanted to show me...in a diner....full of families and sh*t. I did not ask."
Probably shouldn't ask this either:
"U on ur period?"
Or this:
"Have been asked my bra size on multiple first dates."
Amy Hoggart Idk GIF by truTVGiphyVery concerning.
"I had a first date ask me my favorite genocide, and then went on to talk about various historical genocides for the rest of the date. I was really creeped out..."
Oh No Snl GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphyWhat a weird way of putting it.
"I had a guy ask how far I could run without stopping."
"Why? Are you going to chase after me????"
"Probably interested to see if you are physically active or not, but asking it in a strange way."
- btax1
"Yes more than likely. He was an odd duck. He was a federal agent."
Moving a little too fast.
"Can I introduce you to my friends as my man?"
"Like chill girl, we don't even know each other..."
"Where should I put my suitcase till my furniture arrives?"
GIF by Brett EldredgeGiphyHope they knew about her before this came up.
"Is it ok if I bring my wife on our next date?"
Not everyone agrees that it's inappropriate to bring up money, sex life, or exercise routines on the first date.
However, if you find those things important to know before a second date maybe it's best to get it out of the way first.
It's probably best to steer clear of the chloroform questions though.
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