A cheesesteak from a Mom & Pop store is a Steak-Umm fried with onions and seasoned with salt and pepper. American cheese is melted on it and everything plus ketchup is placed on an Amaroso roll. That's the basic sandwich.

The extras are the mushrooms, green peppers, lettuce, onions and tomatoes, pepperoni, green peppers and onions, etc.

The tourist spots like Pat's and Geno's are the only ones that use Cheez Whiz.

@Clamchatter wrote:

Forgive my ignorance. I live on the west coast and have never had a Philly Cheesesteak. What is on an authentic sandwich? And, as far as that wiz stuff goes, I would never put it on anything. It's gross. I ordered nachos at the bingo hall once and that wiz stuff was on them. I scraped it off as best as I could before I ate them. It was gross. Thank you.

Assigned myself a car wash shop because I was going to be in the area. At the location I paid for the self service drive through wash and was getting ready to pull in. The associate flags me down and asks me about the bike rack on the back....which I had forgotten to take off. Had to leave and cancel the shop.

At least they asked you about it. Years ago I got in line for a car wash and watched the vehicle go through the automated system with a bike rack on top of our SUV that I forgot about. I died when I saw the big spaghetti noodle things take a-hold of it and rip it off the roof. They had to shut down the car wash and pick up the pieces before sending me on my way to my mechanic friend who put it back on before my husband could find out about my stupidity. PS. It never really worked well after that..I think I told him anyway.

Pretty sure he got let go of.

I think the only shop that would qualify as "go south" for me was a gas station mystery/reveal inspection. For some reason, this one customer really, really, REALLY did not like the fact that I was going around taking pictures of various parts of the station. And my explanation that I was conducting an inspection of the location on behalf of the brand did nothing to placate him. So I opted to ignore him, which multiplied his anger by about 10-fold.

That was when he threatened to rape me.

I ignored that as well, but didn't stick to finish the inspection either.

Wow. I have had to delete photos of pumps when people objected to me taking photos of "my car", but I have never felt actually threatened.

And that is why I carry two phones with me one for calls and to take pictures with and the other is in my shirt pocket recording whats going on. And I do not want to hear anything about one party and two-party states.

I have, surprisingly, had only 2 that really stand out. One was a bank shop - I thought that I had stayed away from that particular branch for a long enough time but, not only did the banker recognize me, but instead of just doing his job he copped an attitude because he was offended that he was being shopped. Uncomfortable but, since it was part of the job, I followed through (and he forgot at least one thing due to his arrogance). The other one was a route of gas stations, 2 of 1 brand, 1 of the other, within a 3 mile stretch of a particular road. For context, except in very rare cases because I have done so many (literally thousands over the year), I rarely spend over 20 minutes on-site even for very large stations, so I'm moving very quickly. Some of it is so that I'm not in customers' way and some is so that I don't have to stand around waiting for a customer to finish at a pump. A customer rounded the corner of the pump and had to just take her foot off of the gas pedal while I was snapping the picture so no delay for her. She was so offended that I was "in her way" that she screamed at me for the remaining 10 minutes I was on the site and then, because I ignored her, waited for me to finish and drove down to my next station just to scream at me again. It was so odd I ended up laughing (which made her even madder).

@ceasesmith wrote:

Wow. I have had to delete photos of pumps when people objected to me taking photos of "my car", but I have never felt actually threatened.

I've only had a couple of people even notice me working and have never had to delete photos because I either congratulated them for their unusual awareness (since hardly anyone even seems to notice) or laughingly told them that I would make sure that that paparazzi never sees the picture.

In that particular audit, the guidelines said that if anyone objected, to let them actually see me delete the photo of their car. So that's what I did. I apologized, offered to let her watch me delete it, she did, thanked me, and left.

I do not recall those instructions being in any other gas station audits.

I can not believe the number of people that sit in front of a gas station for 30 or 45 minutes and take their lunch break. Drives me nuts.! How do the rest of you handle this? Do you ask them to love their trucks? Seems like I've been told you were not supposed to do that. But my time is running and therefore my profitability when I have to sit and watch some of the people.