As noted in the past, I eat pretty regularly at the Tokyo Joe’s across the street (sorry, Jackie). And, as noted then, I’m known there as The Guy Who Comes in Every Day and Stands in Line Reading a Book the Whole Way.
When the New Boss came out, we stopped by there for lunch. Ditto the following week, when the New Boss and another fellow visited the office. Made up a bit for dinner. But the New Boss liked it, which was kind of nice.
The drink cups all have the Founder/President Larry Leith’s e-mail on them. So last month I sent Larry an e-mail, complimenting them on their food and on their good service and friendly staff. I’ve done the opposite in the past (sent nastygrams to places I had a beef with), so I thought I owed it to folks who were giving me what I wanted a kudo or two.
So today I go in, the first time in weeks (holidays etc. being what they are), and the gal at the register, who I recognize, asked me, “Did you send us an e-mail?”
I was startled for a second, then replied, “Well, I sent [refers to cup] Larry one.”
She smiled. “Yeah. He put it up on the board and thanked us for it. It was really cool. Thanks.”
Y’know, it feels good to make people happy. Especially when they deserve it.
Yep, I can relate to that pleasure of knowing positive feedback landed on its mark. BTW, I finally enticed my boyfriend to stop by when I read him your tag line, “Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.” You and he are very similar (same line of work, a love of Firefly and Farscape, and more). I often tell him something you wrote. So he stopped by. He’s having some problem seeing your site–it’s clipped. He uses the Chimera browser, which is based on the Gekko-rendering engine from Mozilla. Granted, about 1% of surfers use that, but you mentioned you might redesign the layout. So there’s two cents. 🙂
I’ve heard of some CSS-related problems with Chimera. I’ll take a look at what I’m doing next go-around. Thanks.