1) Restaurant / Diner Service
You are having dinner and gradually you consume your glass of ice water. When it's level runs low, a waiter comes to refill your glass from a pitcher bearing ice cubes but that pitcher is filled with tepid water that has just moments ago been drawn from a faucet. That water is only slightly cooler than room ambient and as those few ice cubes rapidly melt, it's like suddenly finding yourself with a glassful of warmish dishwater.
2) Unconscionable Contract Terms
Check this out from a tree service:
My translation: "You are hiring us to take remedial action(s) of tree pruning and/or tree removal, but if we decide for one reason or another that we don't want to actually complete the job, we can leave stuff behind and you agree to pay us the full price of the contract anyway. How you deal with whatever we leave behind and leave undone will be your problem, not ours."
3) Buffet Table Manners
You find yourself on a buffet table line and ahead of you, two people choose some items to put on their plates and then instead of moving on, those two people just stand there and get into a chatty, extended conversation. ("Oh, yes! I think so too and you know I heard the other day that ......" etc, etc.) They simply remain standing where they are so that nobody else can move forward.
4) Grocery Checkout Manners
The grocery store cash register clerk is ringing up your items, but you cannot get to where your items are accumulating to pack them up because the customer ahead of you is still standing at that same spot while reviewing their checkout receipt. (It’s rather similar to the buffet table thing, isn’t it.)
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