I don’t do Facebook much — that’s why I tend to be ignorant of news like “oh, alligators ate my left leg a month ago” until everyone else on the planet, up to and including the pool guys in cities a thousand miles north of the alligator line, knows the story.
But I do find a few things about Facebook’s content amusing. One is the Employees-of-Waffle-House closed group I somehow got added to. Every day is a soap opera like you would not believe.
People get into actual flamewars over whose manager is right about the order in which waffles and biscuits are supposed to be called to the cooks. And whether it’s even acceptable to make pancakes using waffle batter:
“OUR NAME IS NOT ‘PANCAKE HOUSE’. WE DO NOT MAKE PANCAKES!!!”
vs
“Hell, if it keeps the three year old who wants a pancake happy, we’ll cook him a damn pancake.”
Cue 900 follow-up messages taking every conceivable side of the issue. Including whether the aliens at Area 51 are somehow manipulating American waffle production for their own purposes.
It kind of makes you wonder what other closed employee-only groups there are out there — is there a group for American park rangers to bitch about things like the bear in the hat and necktie who keeps stealing picnic baskets? Or a group for Starbucks employees to bitch about the customers who complain because their latte is precisely two degrees too hot, with graphic descriptions of the tortures the baristas would like to subject said customers to? Or a group for pool guys to vent about all the alligators they’re finding in pools lately and how it’s not due to global warming, but rather, due to changes in pool chemical formulation?
Alligators, man. What are you going to do?
Of course there are groups like that. There are original groups, splinter groups, groups with weird names so the boss and that creepy guy on the loading dock won’t find them, subgroups so the kitchen crew can bitch about wait staff, groups where the purported and actual memberships don’t align any more, and so on. It’s a variant/special case of Rule 34.
To your point re: Rule 34 – DO NOT EVER Google “waffle house” and “porn” or any variation on that theme.
Don’t ask me how I know.