Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 17:00     Subject: Re:Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
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Anonymous wrote:Bringing your dog into every freaking store.


I bring my dog wherever he's allowed. Get over it.


So you are TA! They are not legally allowed, the business just chooses to ignore it. Stop being TA and leave your mangy dog at home.


+1 I don’t want to see your dog at Total Wine, Starbucks, Costco, Walmart, Safeway, or District Taco - all places where I have seen dogs indoors in the last year or so. My issue is that not all dogs are well-behaved and calm, and even dogs that are usually well-behaved at home or on walks can get over excited in a busy store. I also think it’s gross in food establishments.


My local wine store loves my dog and gives him treats when we visit. Shrug.


You're still TA. Shrug.


That’s just your opinion. Not your store, not your business.


True. But you and the business still need to follow the law. If you run a red light 15 times and don’t get a ticket, it doesn’t mean it’s not stupid or against the law.


I have no idea what the law is about dogs and wine stores. It’s not my problem. Stay mad.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:59     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
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Anonymous wrote:Complaining about the song "Imagine" at President Carter's funeral service. He requested it be sung. By those performers.


OMG who complained? THat was a beautiful service.

Tons of aggrieved MAGATs and "Christians" and Washington Examiner among others. Words of Satan in a church, ya know.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:57     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I don’t talk to strangers. It irks me when some AA women start to comment in public that I should have said excuse me or hello or thank you.
I do what I can to stay out of people’s way and that is just the way I am.
I am also curious as to whether or not that person who berates me in public is just as harsh with her judgments when it is a person who is also from her ethnicity.

I don’t understand why some women behave like this


Oh, you're definitely TA. A racist one at that.

You are exactly what I mean.
When I am out and about I do not converse with strangers or start or join a conversation. What is wrong with that?

People like you are what I need to avoid


The fact that you're a grown-ass adult who can't function in public and yet it's everyone else's fault is why you're the TA.

Oh I function very well. And I have learned the street smarts to avoid certain types of people
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:55     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Showing off about your children.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:43     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Anonymous wrote:Complaining about the song "Imagine" at President Carter's funeral service. He requested it be sung. By those performers.


OMG who complained? THat was a beautiful service.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:43     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:People who park themselves for hours at a table in a café and proceed to take loud work calls and/or attend Zoom meetings, shouting into the phone or mic like they are in their damn office. There are always men doing this at Northside Social in Falls Church. Serious lack of social skills.


I worked at a restaurant in a business district in college and we had dudebro corporate Chads who would buy a cup of coffee or a bagel and then spend all day conducting “meetings” and “interviews” with a rotating cast of characters at the table.


Especially at Union Market. At least take one of the tables in the back. The front window seats should be for people who just bought a meal. People should move in and out of those seats every 20 minutes or so.


Why don't establishments put limits on how long patrons can stay and consume what they purchased? Honest question because I also think it's ridiculous to just sit there all day.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:42     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t talk to strangers. It irks me when some AA women start to comment in public that I should have said excuse me or hello or thank you.
I do what I can to stay out of people’s way and that is just the way I am.
I am also curious as to whether or not that person who berates me in public is just as harsh with her judgments when it is a person who is also from her ethnicity.

I don’t understand why some women behave like this


Oh, you're definitely TA. A racist one at that.

You are exactly what I mean.
When I am out and about I do not converse with strangers or start or join a conversation. What is wrong with that?

People like you are what I need to avoid


The fact that you're a grown-ass adult who can't function in public and yet it's everyone else's fault is why you're the TA.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:37     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People who park themselves for hours at a table in a café and proceed to take loud work calls and/or attend Zoom meetings, shouting into the phone or mic like they are in their damn office. There are always men doing this at Northside Social in Falls Church. Serious lack of social skills.


I worked at a restaurant in a business district in college and we had dudebro corporate Chads who would buy a cup of coffee or a bagel and then spend all day conducting “meetings” and “interviews” with a rotating cast of characters at the table.


Especially at Union Market. At least take one of the tables in the back. The front window seats should be for people who just bought a meal. People should move in and out of those seats every 20 minutes or so.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:33     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Complaining about the song "Imagine" at President Carter's funeral service. He requested it be sung. By those performers.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 16:31     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t talk to strangers. It irks me when some AA women start to comment in public that I should have said excuse me or hello or thank you.
I do what I can to stay out of people’s way and that is just the way I am.
I am also curious as to whether or not that person who berates me in public is just as harsh with her judgments when it is a person who is also from her ethnicity.

I don’t understand why some women behave like this


Oh, you're definitely TA. A racist one at that.

You are exactly what I mean.
When I am out and about I do not converse with strangers or start or join a conversation. What is wrong with that?

People like you are what I need to avoid
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 15:06     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Anonymous wrote:I don’t talk to strangers. It irks me when some AA women start to comment in public that I should have said excuse me or hello or thank you.
I do what I can to stay out of people’s way and that is just the way I am.
I am also curious as to whether or not that person who berates me in public is just as harsh with her judgments when it is a person who is also from her ethnicity.

I don’t understand why some women behave like this


Oh, you're definitely TA. A racist one at that.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 15:04     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Ordering etiquette in this area is terrible:

milling around a store and then yelling i was here first when someone comes in and goes right up to the cash register ready to order, either get on line or get behind people who get on line first

also standing at the cash register not ordering waiting for your friend who comes in jumps the line to order "with you" and then proceeds to get a separate check.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 14:52     Subject: Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
I don’t talk to strangers. It irks me when some AA women start to comment in public that I should have said excuse me or hello or thank you.
I do what I can to stay out of people’s way and that is just the way I am.
I am also curious as to whether or not that person who berates me in public is just as harsh with her judgments when it is a person who is also from her ethnicity.

I don’t understand why some women behave like this
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 14:51     Subject: Re:Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
When people are walking 2+ on the sidewalk and can't share and move over for someone going in the opposite direction. Like they are entitled to the entire sidewalk and you have to move into the mud or street.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 11:55     Subject: Re:Small acts that signal to strangers you are TA
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bringing your dog into every freaking store.


I bring my dog wherever he's allowed. Get over it.


So you are TA! They are not legally allowed, the business just chooses to ignore it. Stop being TA and leave your mangy dog at home.


+1 I don’t want to see your dog at Total Wine, Starbucks, Costco, Walmart, Safeway, or District Taco - all places where I have seen dogs indoors in the last year or so. My issue is that not all dogs are well-behaved and calm, and even dogs that are usually well-behaved at home or on walks can get over excited in a busy store. I also think it’s gross in food establishments.


AGREE! I saw a woman holding a small mangy dog that had a vest thing on with "Service" embroidered on it - clearly purchased from Etsy. I asked a manager in my grocery store why someone was allowed to bring in their dog and he said they are not allowed to ask the customers about it. I am a dog person; but please keep your dog out of stores. They do not belong there.