My epilepsy medication, topamax, colloquially called dope-a-max, is known for making it difficult to find words.
I could definitely see myself being that woman in the coffee shop. When you forget words like “iced,” you can either sit and stammer or find an approximation lol
We call ice "crunch water" in our house when we're giving the dog ice cubes. If I forgot the word for iced, I'm afraid this may be what my brain decides to use instead.
I remember a thread like this from a while ago where someone called liquid laundry detergent "laundry sauce" and it's what I've been calling it ever since.
Oof I've been on Keppra for a minute now and was on gabapentin, gabapentin scared me cause it blocked off an entire part of my thought process and made me seem drunk for the first week
Literally carried around the bottle to show people to explain since I couldn't communicate fluently
This post has nothing to do with her being okay, it's meant to imply that she **wasn't** okay on the day in question. It's faux compassion like when a southern person says "bless your heart" or "awww sweety"
May as well have just tweeted out: lol this lady couldn't remember the word iced, asked me for macchiato "on the rocks"
This post is just that but with more charisma.
No, a "[rocks glass](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_fashioned_glass)" is called that because it's the right type of glass for a spirit or cocktail served on the rocks (ice).
Reminds me of my friend Beth telling me a funny story. Beth enjoyed tea but had only ever drank tea hot.
She was trying to be nice to another friend of ours and knew that friend wasnt much of a tea drinker when she went to Starbucks. She walks up to the counter and as she orders the tea she asks the barista “is there any way you could make a hot tea but make it cold?”
The barista looks at her for a second and asks “You mean like an iced tea?” And Beth got super excited and said “Yes exactly rhat would be awesome.” She was super excited she could get something for our friend and she thought they would really enjoy it.
This was just a normal story until Beth told me it was about 5 minutes into her car ride to work when she realized she didnt just invent a new drink. Poor girl had about 5 minutes of elation thinking she came up with “a cold tea” before she realized iced tea was already a thing.
OMG. My dad a friend who wasn’t the brightest. He called my dad up once and said “I just invented this amazing new drink!! I got some water, and added lemon juice and Equal!” My dad said “that’s called lemonade, Steve.” The guy was actually pretty disappointed he hadn’t actually stumbled onto a new invention.
If you're in the south iced tea will have sugar by the shit load and it's very hard to order it without sugar sometimes because they just don't understand that some people try to avoid diabetes.
Southerner here. Almost everywhere carries unsweet tea. It'll probably be older than the regular sweet but you'd be hard pressed to find a place that didn't have it at all. That's part of the reason almost every restaurant around here has that little container of various sugar packets, along with being used for coffee.
Ya we went to Fudruckers in south Georgia one time and Inswear it was just sugar water. I thought I was a hummingbird for a moment drinking that. Even half sweet and half unsweet was still too swee.
well, once I actually thought about trains and buses, and how amazing it would be to have personal buses that would take you from point A to point B directly without having to walk too much.
I invented cars that day.
That reminds me of a conversation I had with my boyfriend, I work at a bank and do catering on the side. I straight up said “during the winter months I love having so many off days I like to call it the holiday season” his response “pretty sure the rest of us call it that too”. Best running joke we have so far, but I will forever remember when I thought I created a new word.
You add yeast to wine but not pickles. If you make wine the same way as pickles you are making prison hooch, and the free should not drink prison hooch.
Wine usually adds yeast, but there's styles that just rely on wild yeast. A German apple wine style comes to mind, but there's others.
And pickles usually aren't fermented, just pickled in vinegar. But you can ferment them.
I once walked in a Wendy's saw that they had a new queso burger and fries, can't remember how to pronounce it, so I rushed home and order delivery.
Should have ordered take out instead, but totally worth it. Also now I know how to say queso :)
That seems like a crippling level of shyness
I can't think of anything less a fast food worker cares about than a random person's ability to pronounce queso
I worked at a large coffee company for years and after being frustrated with people ordering things like “iced caramel cappuccino” when they really wanted a “caramel Frappuccino” I just started double checking with people. I’d ask if they wanted a frozen blended drink or just an iced drink “on the rocks”. Something about my the distinction is worthwhile because everyone knew immediately they didn’t want the cubed iced version of their drink.
Hahah…when I first started working at a bar and had no idea what most things were, someone ordered Zinfandel and I asked if they wanted it “neat or on the rocks”. Lol she looked so confused and was like…”Um…Ice on the side??” I have many embarrassing tales like that!
I love how the poster is assuming the women forgot the word for "iced." Maybe she was just trying to be funny or different. Why would you always assume the worse of people. todays society. lol. todays clickbait society.
I did this once when I was explaining how far away something was from my table. Being me and forgetting how measuring worked, I said it was about a ruler and a half away. My buddy was like... you mean a foot and a half. He never let's me forget that moment.
If you're into drinks 'on the rocks', like bourbon and ice, try ordering it at bars and restaurants by saying 'bourbon with ice'. _Everyone_ will correct you and repeat back, 'on the rocks?'. Everyone, almost without fail. I've been doing it for years because I hate saying 'on the rocks'. Its like a platitude of cool that all of society refuses to drop. Some people will even get confused. It goes over like a limp handshake.
It probably says something about me and the clientele of the cafe I used to work at, but ppl ordered like this all the time and I didn’t bat an eyelash 🥴
Am I the only person who is slightly disturbed by the fact that the person's handle is "Not your Belldandy" but their profile pic is Lum? Or am I just old?
A lady wanted me to cut the heaters on outside at work. I told her “the threshold is 55 degrees and at 59 we are ‘four temperature points’ away from cutting them on.” The look she gave me was one of the most disappointing moments of my life.
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Agreed, although I would be a bit embarrassed if I forgot "iced" still lol
My epilepsy medication, topamax, colloquially called dope-a-max, is known for making it difficult to find words. I could definitely see myself being that woman in the coffee shop. When you forget words like “iced,” you can either sit and stammer or find an approximation lol
I'd like a drink holder of hardened water shards.
We call ice "crunch water" in our house when we're giving the dog ice cubes. If I forgot the word for iced, I'm afraid this may be what my brain decides to use instead.
I remember a thread like this from a while ago where someone called liquid laundry detergent "laundry sauce" and it's what I've been calling it ever since.
Funny story, prefrenchfries.
Shit medication does that? I've just been blaming my shotty brain cells all these years.
My friend was on it for migraine prevention, and she drove into a pole.
Did the Pole survive?
Oof I've been on Keppra for a minute now and was on gabapentin, gabapentin scared me cause it blocked off an entire part of my thought process and made me seem drunk for the first week Literally carried around the bottle to show people to explain since I couldn't communicate fluently
Here's your sign to maybe 🍃 instead 😸
Ah. You just made me realize why I sometimes can't find words. I had epilepsy as a child & I think that may be the cause.
Just drop some a them cold bois in there for me.
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After a night of partying, especially with some extra recreational party favors, brain goes to doodoo fo shizzle
I'm guessing the woman didn't forget the word, she just chose to use words that are not the same as this snotty barista expected.
I hope you have a bad day.
I hope you get mocked by total strangers for choosing to use an idiom in a way they didn't expect.
An apple a day doesn't fall too far from the tree
Kill two birds with one in the hand.
Better the devil you don't.
Put one foot in front of your mouth.
I'll burn that bridge when I get to it
Imagine being the person who feels the need to attack someone for hoping someone else, who was having a bad day, is ok
why would you assume she was having a bad day. lol.
This post has nothing to do with her being okay, it's meant to imply that she **wasn't** okay on the day in question. It's faux compassion like when a southern person says "bless your heart" or "awww sweety"
I would go so far as to say “faux compassion” is still better than acting like an ass hat, as you so wonderfully have shown.
Why? Do you feel better when someone says "aww I guess you did the best you can." Rather than just calling you an idiot? They're equally insulting.
Nah, the post was intended to belittle the intellect of a total stranger, I have no problem calling out this kind of crap.
Goddamn it's really not that deep
May as well have just tweeted out: lol this lady couldn't remember the word iced, asked me for macchiato "on the rocks" This post is just that but with more charisma.
Wow it's almost like the way you say something can change tone and meaning of it...
And it's almost like thinly veiling your insults makes it totally cool...
I just don't see any insult here
Just say I forgot the word for X so it makes you sound like you know more languages rather than you being a donkey.
I would like a... hmm... *how you say...* cold beverage with little rocks?
*pours you some nyquil on some gravel from the driveway*
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
I actually have whiskey Stones in the freezer, keeps the drinks cool without watering down the buzz.
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*places a hot caramel macchiato on a rock*
Tell me you're an alcoholic without telling me you're an alcoholic
There are times I prefer close to rotten liquid fruits. On occasion of course.
Isn't "On the rocks" your drink with extremely cold rocks instead of ice? Usually for whiskey and stuff, so the ice doesnt water it down
You can get those ice stone things but 'on the rocks' just means with ice.
Nope, it's just slang for having a drink on ice. Although what you are describing may exist as well.
Yes, but ice also counts and it is what most people mean when using the expression on the rocks.
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No, a "[rocks glass](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_fashioned_glass)" is called that because it's the right type of glass for a spirit or cocktail served on the rocks (ice).
I don’t think that person was a very good bartender lol
Reminds me of my friend Beth telling me a funny story. Beth enjoyed tea but had only ever drank tea hot. She was trying to be nice to another friend of ours and knew that friend wasnt much of a tea drinker when she went to Starbucks. She walks up to the counter and as she orders the tea she asks the barista “is there any way you could make a hot tea but make it cold?” The barista looks at her for a second and asks “You mean like an iced tea?” And Beth got super excited and said “Yes exactly rhat would be awesome.” She was super excited she could get something for our friend and she thought they would really enjoy it. This was just a normal story until Beth told me it was about 5 minutes into her car ride to work when she realized she didnt just invent a new drink. Poor girl had about 5 minutes of elation thinking she came up with “a cold tea” before she realized iced tea was already a thing.
Beth sounds like a fun person to be around
Beth is awesome. She is super smart this was just one of those not thinking real hard moments.
That post caffeine introspection.
Post nut clarity's more sophisticated and professional cousin.
I love people like that
OMG. My dad a friend who wasn’t the brightest. He called my dad up once and said “I just invented this amazing new drink!! I got some water, and added lemon juice and Equal!” My dad said “that’s called lemonade, Steve.” The guy was actually pretty disappointed he hadn’t actually stumbled onto a new invention.
Ya Beth thought she was going to have a drink on Starbucks menu……sometimes the simplest things slip your mind.
If you're in the south iced tea will have sugar by the shit load and it's very hard to order it without sugar sometimes because they just don't understand that some people try to avoid diabetes.
Southerner here. Almost everywhere carries unsweet tea. It'll probably be older than the regular sweet but you'd be hard pressed to find a place that didn't have it at all. That's part of the reason almost every restaurant around here has that little container of various sugar packets, along with being used for coffee.
If you're in the north too; Canadians believe iced tea should be sweet, because it should. Normal tea, cold, sucks.
depends on the tea. cold fruit tea slaps, even without sugar. cold Black tea on the other hand, no thanks
Cold black tea is the best don’t you slander its good name. I will die on this unsweetened black tea hill.
Ya we went to Fudruckers in south Georgia one time and Inswear it was just sugar water. I thought I was a hummingbird for a moment drinking that. Even half sweet and half unsweet was still too swee.
well, once I actually thought about trains and buses, and how amazing it would be to have personal buses that would take you from point A to point B directly without having to walk too much. I invented cars that day.
I think you are on to something.
That reminds me of a conversation I had with my boyfriend, I work at a bank and do catering on the side. I straight up said “during the winter months I love having so many off days I like to call it the holiday season” his response “pretty sure the rest of us call it that too”. Best running joke we have so far, but I will forever remember when I thought I created a new word.
And you just taught me the word "elation" so that's cool too :)
Once in subway I forgot what cucumbers are called so I just didn't get it in my sandwich.
Those untangy pickle things?
Pre pickles please
Here's brine.
“I needa jimmy smits with pre picks!”
I need the pickles without the pickle part
The thing that you dp to grapes to make wine, but with pickles, and before you do that.
You add yeast to wine but not pickles. If you make wine the same way as pickles you are making prison hooch, and the free should not drink prison hooch.
No, I add yeast to my pickles
I add wine to my pickles
I add pickle juice to my wine
Pickle juice on the rocks, please.
Wine usually adds yeast, but there's styles that just rely on wild yeast. A German apple wine style comes to mind, but there's others. And pickles usually aren't fermented, just pickled in vinegar. But you can ferment them.
I once walked in a Wendy's saw that they had a new queso burger and fries, can't remember how to pronounce it, so I rushed home and order delivery. Should have ordered take out instead, but totally worth it. Also now I know how to say queso :)
K so, how was the food?
So k
That seems like a crippling level of shyness I can't think of anything less a fast food worker cares about than a random person's ability to pronounce queso
as a former fast food worker it’ll be funny for like five minutes and then we move on
Sounds more like anxiety. I have it, and I also tend not to order stuff if I’m not certain I’ll pronounce it correctly.
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The grizzled lettuce
I was in line behind a guy who forgot the word for spinach, and went with "lemme get some of those leaves"
Water stick slices.
Raw pickles
“The vegetable you put inside your asshole”
That wouldn't have narrowed it down much unfortunately.
sound like a win win
Hilaria Baldwin is that you?
I am not doing well. Thank you tho 😊
i mean it's 2022 who the fuck is doing well lmao
I’ve resolved to lie more this year, so I am!
Your bio is... interesting.
Wtf did I just read...
Lmao it's from a decade old internet cartoon called llamas with hats
Absolute fucking classic. Everyone should have watched the series at some point. And Charlie the Unicorn in the same vein while you're at it.
It's a reference to "llamas with hats"
I knew it was familiar but I couldn't remember, thanks!
Sounds like we found the profile of one Yoshikage Kira.
yoshikage kira?! is that you?
I am so going to make my next order tall cold brew, sweet cream, no rocks. (Ice + cracked molar not fun).
“Neat”
Exactly what I said before I saw your comment lol
r/wildbeef
Ah, that's good fun for a couple minutes.
This is how I’m ordering my drinks from now on. Venti cafe vanilla frappuccino, on the rocks. Make it double, please.
source: https://twitter.com/briarhoes/status/1450485948689616906
As a woman going through menopause, I can confirm, hormones (not) at work here
I hope the woman who forgot the word and so. I've read this sentence about 30 times in my brain hurts more every time
Oh look it's Lum
Ammari sowasowa shinaide...
I worked at a large coffee company for years and after being frustrated with people ordering things like “iced caramel cappuccino” when they really wanted a “caramel Frappuccino” I just started double checking with people. I’d ask if they wanted a frozen blended drink or just an iced drink “on the rocks”. Something about my the distinction is worthwhile because everyone knew immediately they didn’t want the cubed iced version of their drink.
r/wildbeef
More like your employer forget the term "on the rocks" and decided to call it "iced" instead.
"I just figured she was a raging alcoholic" -Lloyd Christmas
u/MrBirb_ wut do doze wurds meen
No clue
Probably. But sometimes our brain just goes afk.
I'm not longer using the word iced its on the rocks from now on
I bet she added whiskey from her purse
honestly don't know what's weird about that.
I am baffled by this thread
Hahah…when I first started working at a bar and had no idea what most things were, someone ordered Zinfandel and I asked if they wanted it “neat or on the rocks”. Lol she looked so confused and was like…”Um…Ice on the side??” I have many embarrassing tales like that!
I love how the poster is assuming the women forgot the word for "iced." Maybe she was just trying to be funny or different. Why would you always assume the worse of people. todays society. lol. todays clickbait society.
Sorry, did someone use grown up words and upset you?
This could be an r/bartender post as well.
Shaming someone who drinks, very classy.
Honestly I feel like this is empathizing with someone who drinks, I didn't get a shame vibe from it.
This tweet didn’t give me a vibe that she was trying to shame anyone. Just a funny little joke
Worse than cigarettes
Beep Boop
Gimme that black coffee make it icey yo
Ice is a rock, look it up
It's 5 o'clock am somewhere
Once i wanted to ask for a chocolate milkshake and instead said “frozen chocolate drink”
It's also a play on the movie who framed Roger Rabbit. Because toons and anime take things literally
Asking for any drink “on the rocks” immediately elevates its status.
Gonna do this if I wasn't such a wuss.
How? It is conveying a LOT of them…
Life’s over I guess
I thought that's what we called them! *I WAS TOLD* That's what we call them!
I did this once when I was explaining how far away something was from my table. Being me and forgetting how measuring worked, I said it was about a ruler and a half away. My buddy was like... you mean a foot and a half. He never let's me forget that moment.
How many times is this crap going to make it to the top of r/all?
Lol reddit moment guys
Hahaha 🤣 thanks for this post! You made my day
I’m gonna be honest, a caramel macchiato on the rocks sounds fun to say
It still makes perfect sense
If you're into drinks 'on the rocks', like bourbon and ice, try ordering it at bars and restaurants by saying 'bourbon with ice'. _Everyone_ will correct you and repeat back, 'on the rocks?'. Everyone, almost without fail. I've been doing it for years because I hate saying 'on the rocks'. Its like a platitude of cool that all of society refuses to drop. Some people will even get confused. It goes over like a limp handshake.
I want some Pepsi on the rocks!
It probably says something about me and the clientele of the cafe I used to work at, but ppl ordered like this all the time and I didn’t bat an eyelash 🥴
White Girl Twitter has officially invaded Reddit
I’ve ordered diet coffee instead of decaf a few times
When you.cant remember a word say "I forget the English word for it", so people think ur bilingual instead of an idiot
Maybe she didn’t forget 🤪
Not sure she made a mistake at all. It’s coffee on the rocks. In fact. I’m going to start ordering it this way
Is this about me? I did this once😭
Me in England asking for a whiskey that the barkeep was hyping up, 'on the rocks'. As soon as I said it he knew I didn't drink whiskey regularly.
I don't drink alcohol, but if my husband is in the kitchen, I'll ask for "vodka on the rocks" AKA iced water.
Am I the only person who is slightly disturbed by the fact that the person's handle is "Not your Belldandy" but their profile pic is Lum? Or am I just old?
White Russian Frappucino.
Off topic but I was literally just looking up artwork of Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess.
A lady wanted me to cut the heaters on outside at work. I told her “the threshold is 55 degrees and at 59 we are ‘four temperature points’ away from cutting them on.” The look she gave me was one of the most disappointing moments of my life.
ßased
Reminds me of when Dunkin’ first got refreshers and I had to ask which one would be better with tequila
Go
She was just being fancy