I'm ok with this.

One of their calls sounds like that but they also have a bunch of others including some real terrifying ones they can pull out just for when I'm solo camping!

I think the effect is the same, it's just being called something else. In either case it takes the tipping decision out of the patrons' hands and makes it a cost built into the overall price, so that the income is reliable, predictable, and not reliant on the whims of the often hostile and/or biased public.

I don't work for Gracie's in Providence so I can't say personally, but I have heard they are in line with what you're describing and it's a great upscale restaurant. They also are bucking tipping culture by including a 20% service charge on all bills and distributing that and any other gratuities evenly to their team through wages.

Extend it to the airport in Warwick and then there would be much more interest.

"Maybe it's just the tone of this sub, but I see a lot of self-deprecation here and I wanted to see what everyone really thought about living in Providence."

From this, I knew you weren't originally from New England, but from the way you ended your post I understand that you've been here long enough to get it. There's a lot of that self-deprecation of the city you live in and love. See also: Worcester, Fall River, Boston. Often it takes the form of "No one is allowed to complain about or make fun of our city but us."

To answer your question, I loved living in Providence for a decade before I moved last year. The good and the bad are all part of it. I lived in Worcester for 5 years and loved that too but there was also PLENTY to make fun of. Conversely, I lived in Westerly for a few years and had nothing really bad to say about it but couldn't wait to get out because it was so boring.

Your comment about how your daughter pronounces drawing warms my heart. I was told that I say it weird when I was in Alabama on business.

Welp there's at least one bartender in this post saying that's the way it is and apparently several bars where there are signs not to do this. There might be some logic to what I'm saying.

This whole thread is like a microcosm of things I notice in my 20 year old son and his generation. Occasional inexperience with the unspoken social rules of in-person interactions, healthy questioning of the usefulness of those rules, and the ability to hear another point of view and change their mind without being a total dickhole.

It makes it worse for the bartender who tends to interact with more than one person at a time. As someone else said they can serve 4 people cans while they're waiting for a Guinness pour from a tap. They can do it their way which is never one person at a time.

They wait on more than one person at a time. The line prevents them from being able to do that their way. A bartender might get 3 orders and start the one that makes the most sense to start first, do something else while the head is going down on a beer etc. While waiting for you to gather up your wallet and drink and get out of the way they're talking to 3 more people to your left. They don't go from order to change one person at a time while they bartend. It would take much longer.

Yes it would take longer. At a full bar while you're gathering your drink and your wallet and maneuvering out of the way, the bartender has typically already taken two or more orders from the people waiting nearby. Watch a bartender work and they're rarely if ever dealing with one person at a time. And again, no bar needs a line in the middle of it gumming up the flow of the room.

Again, you might occasionally get passed over and have to wait slightly longer as a patron, but for the bartender doing this night after night it's much more efficient.

A bartender usually knows what order you arrived in. When you get passed over it might make you wait longer but it is not inefficient for the bartender. And they know you're waiting for a drink because you're looking at them waiting for something.

I do not think it's more efficient.

A line would gum up the room. Nobody wants a line in the middle of a bar. Also if you're spread out across the bar you have a place to take your time to pay, a place for them to put your drink down. Things would take much longer if each person had to wait for the person in front of them to move. You spread out and let the bartender do their thing more efficiently than the line can.

From OPs post history, pretty sure he's anti nazi and this is a heads up to push back on this. But he doesn't explain what it is for people who don't know and his call to action is sufficiently vague so as not to indicate whether he's for or against. There's also no other information like a source or any other details. What should people do? Drive around Fall River looking for nazis?

It's a neo-nazi group.

I had to look this up to see that it's a nazi group. It's very hard to tell without going through your post history whether you're advocating for them or this is a heads up for people to push back on public nazi activity. It looks like it's the latter. I strongly suggest more context.

Where? When? A demonstration? A meeting?

Your landlord can and absolutely should evict them. He should be resolving this for you. They have damaged property and are threatening your safety. Him being powerless is bullshit.

Until you find another place, stop engaging with them. Don't knock, don't talk to them, don't text them. You know it doesn't get them to stop what they're doing, so it's no use anyway. The landlord and the cops are your go between. Sometimes neighbors who get along well can resolve things amongst themselves but much of the time you end up with stuff like this. Block them and avoid them.

Good luck. Hopefully these leads pan out for you.

The North Providence Pool and Fitness Center is affordable for non-residents. It's the pool that the high school swim team uses to train. I was looking for a place to exercise a little while back and this was the cheapest and still clean and well maintained as far as I could tell.

That's why I said I hope they support. I've seen both types of people there. So I object to the definitive statement that they won't. Still hoping. Let's see what happens.

I've got some close friends who are alums and I disagree. I'm rooting for them to buck the stereotype of spoiled rich kid.

I really hope the students come out in support of this. Come on RISD.

One of the things that keeps everybody down is making a lot out of the relatively small differences between working class people instead of focusing on the fact that they're all getting shit on together. Fighting over the crumbs while the rich are running away with the entire fucking cake.

I don't have any experience with gel nails but Metro is still my go-to nail place even though I moved to Warwick.