>> First, my doctor just emailed me a warning letter telling me to avoid this restaurant like the PLAGUE. <<
Bummer.
>> Isn't this the restaurant you had in mind to compare with Chick-fil-a? I grew up with that restaurant as a rare treat... and now I won't patronize it, despite it having MORE items on the menu that I can /have/. <<
No, Frisky Critters is closer to Kentucky Fried Chicken, just with more variety. It's actually modeled less on a chain than on hole-in-the-wall fryhouses though. Those are the ones that tend to be fry-anything places. I kind of put them together into a composite of what I thought would be a mouth-watering restaurant. Just, you know, not somewhere most people should eat frequently. But aside from the frying, the food is actually on the healthy side -- solid meat, real vegetables and fruit, and it's made there instead of thawing over-processed stuff.
>> The high school kids were "calling out" what they saw as a negative behavior, but the fact that ONLY Hefty spoke up says a lot to me about the management's indifference. <<
*sigh* That's not the management or the restaurant, it's the city. It's no accident that Stan and Lawrence got slammed in what was supposed to be a tolerance club. Omaha is not a very tolerant or integrated place. But Fiddlesticks loves the damn place, partly because he has an awesome boss who is determined to drag her city kicking and screaming into enlightenment. It's no accident that Stan and Lawrence got slammed in what was supposed to be a tolerance club.
>> I've spoken up twice this week- and am rethinking that decision as a result of the verbal abuse hurled at me by the very person I thought needed help. <<
Wow, that sucks.
>> I can somewhat understand how people can hear a shouted argument half a BLOCK away... and decide to ignore it. <<
That tends to come from a combination of factors:
* fear of getting hurt for intervening * indifference because nobody helps them * lack of energy to spare for it * habituation to a frequent stimulus
>> But if everybody passes the buck, there's no society at all, is there? <<
Precisely. "Every man for himself, and devil take the hindmost" is not a society, it's anarchy.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Sigh
Date: 2014-08-15 05:50 pm (UTC)Bummer.
>> Isn't this the restaurant you had in mind to compare with Chick-fil-a? I grew up with that restaurant as a rare treat... and now I won't patronize it, despite it having MORE items on the menu that I can /have/. <<
No, Frisky Critters is closer to Kentucky Fried Chicken, just with more variety. It's actually modeled less on a chain than on hole-in-the-wall fryhouses though. Those are the ones that tend to be fry-anything places. I kind of put them together into a composite of what I thought would be a mouth-watering restaurant. Just, you know, not somewhere most people should eat frequently. But aside from the frying, the food is actually on the healthy side -- solid meat, real vegetables and fruit, and it's made there instead of thawing over-processed stuff.
>> The high school kids were "calling out" what they saw as a negative behavior, but the fact that ONLY Hefty spoke up says a lot to me about the management's indifference. <<
*sigh* That's not the management or the restaurant, it's the city. It's no accident that Stan and Lawrence got slammed in what was supposed to be a tolerance club. Omaha is not a very tolerant or integrated place. But Fiddlesticks loves the damn place, partly because he has an awesome boss who is determined to drag her city kicking and screaming into enlightenment. It's no accident that Stan and Lawrence got slammed in what was supposed to be a tolerance club.
>> I've spoken up twice this week- and am rethinking that decision as a result of the verbal abuse hurled at me by the very person I thought needed help. <<
Wow, that sucks.
>> I can somewhat understand how people can hear a shouted argument half a BLOCK away... and decide to ignore it. <<
That tends to come from a combination of factors:
* fear of getting hurt for intervening
* indifference because nobody helps them
* lack of energy to spare for it
* habituation to a frequent stimulus
>> But if everybody passes the buck, there's no society at all, is there? <<
Precisely. "Every man for himself, and devil take the hindmost" is not a society, it's anarchy.