Me, at half time

letthegoodtimesroll · January 1

I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano

transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.

Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’

me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’

every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over

The Red Robin · January 1

Or he was just being nice. Unless he put milk in it why does it even matter.

Talal · January 1

Wow someone made a mistake

Stewart · January 1

Happy new year

shirty5 · January 1

If you want good service when it comes to food or drink don’t expect it in a football ground.

Go somewhere else before you arrive

EugenesAxe · January 1

Ive worked as a barista, lots of people order black coffee, and tea, because they want to add the milk themselves to add the right amount for them, maybe he thought you wanted to do this so was then telling you where the milk was?

Steven81 · January 1

Maybe go to Starbucks or buy a beer 🤣

The Red Robin · January 1

I’d at least expect younger generations to have better stories than this anyway.

Henry Irving · January 1

Then the whole stand clapped

letthegoodtimesroll · January 1

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

Bedsaddick · January 1

What a miserable git 😆

shirty5 · January 1

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

You would have lost it all very easily when you said the Chelsea Cup tickets should be ten pounds each

The Red Robin · January 1

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.

letthegoodtimesroll · January 1

shirty5 said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

You would have lost it all very easily when you said the Chelsea Cup tickets should be ten pounds each

Too right, after all those years, including the PL ones when Curbs would tell us a PL club will win the cup so why not Charlton and we still had small attendances despite the reduced ticket prices, that was a ballsy call to price it as high as that. Fair play to them.

Big William · January 1

"I'll have coffee without cream"

"No problem, we have no cream anyway"

"Give it to me without milk then"

Walter Matthau

SporadicAddick · January 1

Ordering a “Black Americano” at a football ground is the funniest thing I’ve heard for a long time.

letthegoodtimesroll · January 1

The Red Robin said:

I’d at least expect younger generations to have better stories than this anyway.

You would hope so, but…

EugenesAxe · January 1

SporadicAddick said:

Ordering a “Black Americano” at a football ground is the funniest thing I’ve heard for a long time.

maybe we'll get one in the window to go with our white Americano

letthegoodtimesroll · January 1

The Red Robin said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.

Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.

se9addick · January 1

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

letthegoodtimesroll said:

The Red Robin said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.

Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.

I see that coffee didn’t sober you up much! :-)

SheikhYurKory · January 1

Where are the good times here Christ? The football is bad enough at times moan about that.

letthegoodtimesroll · January 1

se9addick said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

letthegoodtimesroll said:

The Red Robin said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.

Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.

I see that coffee didn’t sober you up much! :-)

It’s a fallacy that it sobers anyone up TBF.

letthegoodtimesroll · January 1

SheikhYurKory said:

Where are the good times here Christ? The football is bad enough at times moan about that.

Nothing wrong with the football today. We took a bit of time to wake up in the first half but we soon got there and second half we stepped up even more and got a well deserved equaliser. That overall performance and team work is what you want to see.

MrOneLung · January 1

letthegoodtimesroll said:

The Red Robin said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.

Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.

Off_it · January 1

SporadicAddick said:

Ordering a “Black Americano” at a football ground is the funniest thing I’ve heard for a long time.

The game's gone.

mid_life_crisis · January 1

No issues to report with my half-time Chai Latte.

cantersaddick · January 2

MrOneLung said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

The Red Robin said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.

Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.

LTGTR in chatting rubbish about "the younger generation" shocker!

DOUCHER · January 2

went to mcdonalds before game, didn't give me any milk with my tea - that might be acceptable abroad but not here ffs

Leroy Ambrose · January 2

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

One of those responses literally gave you an answer to your puzzle. Lots of people order a black coffee and then put their own milk in afterwards as the amount of milk you put in a coffee is personal to your own taste. I do this and I'm in my fifties,so it's not a 'generational' thing. You just didn't know.

letthegoodtimesroll · January 2

MrOneLung said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

The Red Robin said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Thanks guys, Interesting responses. I always used to work on the basis that I didn’t need to be exceptional all the time to make money because the bar in where I was competing was generally quite low but now I’m starting to think I should have aimed higher and been a billionaire by the time I retired…I could have bought Charlton with the money and saved us all from all the heartache of recent years 😉

Not to mention all the money you’ve saved on milk over the years.

Ordinarily you would have thought so, but I’m old enough to be of a generation when there was free school milk, which government minister Margeret ‘Thatcher the milk snatcher’ stopped for the generations after us, and basically explains why all us old gits tend to be a lot taller than younger generations. Then you get to a turning point in life when, if you’re lucky, your tastes develop and you start to cut out the non-essentials like milk in coffee, so basically you are saving money you shouldn’t actually be spending in the first place.

That’s the average for the UK. Your diet will likely be a lot better than a lot of other regions around the combined 4 nations because the south east and London in particular is a more wealthy and likely to be a healthier region than the rest of the UK. There are and will be exceptions to that but overall where the money is, ie London and the City, then that will be where diet and nutrition is more important and affordable. For my generation that nutrition included a bottle of milk every morning at school in their formative years. The average height for 60 year olds in that chart will basically be people that started to miss out on that, plus if they’ve failed to supplement their protein intake (which is likely to be the majority) then they will literally be shrinking.

wolfgang · January 2

letthegoodtimesroll said:

I fancied a hot drink, didn’t want chocolate, so order a black americano
transaction typed in, i pay for it, young lad goes off and puts the hot water in a designated cup.
Black coffee gets handed over and young lad says …’the milk is over there…’
me…’thanks, but I don’t need milk with my black coffee’

every older generation over millennium has doubted the generations that will follow but, fck me, the planet is screwed when this lot takes over

I would worry more about pretentious prats who order "americanos" at a football ground.

Edit: I see Off_it beat me to it. Sorry!

Me, at half time

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