Official "Seattle Freeze" Discussion Thread (Dayton: prices, bus)

[HistoryAficionado]

Originally Posted by toughguy

hahahaha I don't know how to respond to this - newfangled devices? those things have been around for over a decade here.

Oh right, to your other post, humor doesn't always translate that well -- I, too, don't like using the smiley faces that people use to show they're joking.


Yeah, that's my point, they've been around forever, yet people act like they don't know how to use them and cashiers feel the need to give them step by step instructions. Where I last lived, at least much of the grocery store checkout was fully automated (unless you were buying alcohol or someone had a prob with the scanner and needed help), as were many other things. From what I've noticed here, even the supposedly self-service car washes still entail somone running after your car with a scrub brush.

[seattlerain]

Originally Posted by toughguy

Bro I was joking around, apparently intent doesn't translate well on the internet. It was a joke, lighten up. What, it's ok to stereotype the pnw on this board, but not other places? Memphis is known for being the country music capital of the world. Since country music and I are polar opposites, I am poking fun at it. LOL darned if you do and darned if you don't I guess. WE get accused of being thin skinned?

Don't tell the folks in Nashville that Memphis is the country music capital of the world!

[toughguy]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

Don't tell the folks in Nashville that Memphis is the country music capital of the world!

hahaha you are right, my bad. I knew it was Nashville -Grand Ole Opry and all that. For some reason I was mixed it up with Memphis. Memphis has the pyramid, and Nashville has the batman tower.

[seattlerain]

Originally Posted by toughguy

hahaha you are right, my bad. I knew it was Nashville -Grand Ole Opry and all that. For some reason I was mixed it up with Memphis. Memphis has the pyramid, and Nashville has the batman tower.

Right! lol

[wannabeaTexan]

Originally Posted by Historyafficianado

Oh right, to your other post, humor doesn't always translate that well -- I, too, don't like using the smiley faces that people use to show they're joking.


Yeah, that's my point, they've been around forever, yet people act like they don't know how to use them and cashiers feel the need to give them step by step instructions. Where I last lived, at least much of the grocery store checkout was fully automated (unless you were buying alcohol or someone had a prob with the scanner and needed help), as were many other things. From what I've noticed here, even the supposedly self-service car washes still entail somone running after your car with a scrub brush.

Isn't that better than going through a Brown Bear and not having anyone do anything to your car? That sounds like good service to me.

I always preferred to go Pink Elephant in Fed Way because they had guys there at the end to dry your car off. Of course, the truly self-serve area didn't have any help since you would hand wash your car yourself.

[HistoryAficionado]

Originally Posted by wannabeaTexan

Isn't that better than going through a Brown Bear and not having anyone do anything to your car? That sounds like good service to me.

I always preferred to go Pink Elephant in Fed Way because they had guys there at the end to dry your car off. Of course, the truly self-serve area didn't have any help since you would hand wash your car yourself.

Actually, one of the places I'm thinking of is a Brown Bear -- outside of the city, though.

Well, by self-service, I don't mean the wash by hand, but the brushless automated car washes where you drive through, it washes and waxes your car, then dries it on the way out.

By the way, I realize this is all off-topic, but would be hesitant in starting a new thread just to compare regional technology.

[wannabeaTexan]

Originally Posted by Historyafficianado

Actually, one of the places I'm thinking of is a Brown Bear -- outside of the city, though.

Well, by self-service, I don't mean the wash by hand, but the brushless automated car washes where you drive through, it washes and waxes your car, then dries it on the way out.

By the way, I realize this is all off-topic, but would be hesitant in starting a new thread just to compare regional technology.

Yeah, the Pink Elephant had (has maybe...I think it's still there) self-service (you wash by hand), full service (they wash by hand) and then I guess in-between where attendants get you set up to go in the automated car wash (like BB's) and attendants on the other side who dry.

The Brown Bear I go to has no personal interaction unless you go inside to pay for it.

But back on topic...most Seattle natives I know and run into are friendly, outgoing folks who make eye contact, say please and thank you and are not hard to make lasting friendships with. So much for the Freeze.

[seattlerain]

Originally Posted by Historyafficianado

Oh right, to your other post, humor doesn't always translate that well -- I, too, don't like using the smiley faces that people use to show they're joking.


Yeah, that's my point, they've been around forever, yet people act like they don't know how to use them and cashiers feel the need to give them step by step instructions. Where I last lived, at least much of the grocery store checkout was fully automated (unless you were buying alcohol or someone had a prob with the scanner and needed help), as were many other things. From what I've noticed here, even the supposedly self-service car washes still entail somone running after your car with a scrub brush.

I'm trying to understand how this car wash example has anything to do with Seattle being less technologically advanced?

[HistoryAficionado]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

I'm trying to understand how this car wash example has anything to do with Seattle being less technologically advanced?

Well, it's just one example of how, compared to the rest of the country, Seattle (unlike maybe a visit overseas to Japan or a place where consumer technology is further along) doesn't exactly wow anyone with its advanced technology and, in some cases, seems a little behind in that regard.

This is despite the tech industry having its presence here -- however, the technology provided by that industry isn't unique to the area, nor does it seem to permeate into daily life any more than other parts of the country.

Another example is self-service check in kiosks at Seattle's airport -- some airlines have it here and some don't, but it's pretty common across the board at many other airports. Meanwhile, we see news about "new kiosks" provided for our convenience (as recently as late last year).

[wannabeaTexan]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

I'm trying to understand how this car wash example has anything to do with Seattle being less technologically advanced?

If we were technologically advanced, we wouldn't have an actual person running behind a car at the end of a car wash with a scrub brush. The car wash could do it all by itself.