Archive for the ‘Sag Harbor’ Category

Can everyone just be nice?

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

I have been enjoying some of the stories on your website.

I notice there are very few if any stories of rude people that live out here full-time. I am sick of the loud, jersey shore type thumping music that our “local” neighbors grown kids play all weekend out here. I cannot believe how much is charged for the most simple service yet still it’s never done. How lazy and resentful have people gotten?

Two weeks ago my friend and I were shopping at the Sag Harbor Surf shop and asking the nice cashier about all the various sunscreens during our checkout. I suppose we took too long for the young locals behind us as they rudely and loudly muttered ”Tourists.”

I can assure you; we are far from tourists here and even if we were what does that even matter?  I think it’s time to realize that it’s best not to be so bitter with each other whatever the reason.

Life is too short and so is summer!

-B

Paranoid Profiling Employees in the Emporium

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

On a snowy December morning I rushed to The Emporium in Sag Harbor to get a part for a failed toilet. The store had not opened on time and I had to wait outside with other customers.

I was looking in the plumbing department for the needed part and noticed that the help was carefully avoiding offering to help me. I continued my search and heard from behind me one of the young gentlemen employed there saying loudly, “I’m going for coffee” then refering to me in the other aisle he said, “watch him,” like I was some kind of potential thief.

After he left I found the part I was looking for and went to pay. A teenage boy was at the counter with an embarrassed look on his face and I said to him, “I was offended by the comment ‘watch him’ when he should have said ‘can I help you?’”

This group of youthful employees are rude and have an “attitude” when it comes to being helped. This is not the first time I have observed this in this store. In all fairness, I must say that another employee did go out of his way to help me at another time but the general feeling I get in this store is disdain for the customers.

I am an East End retailer and would never treat my customers this way. I grew up in Sag Harbor and I think the young employees of this store need an attitude adjustment. They are not even a shadow of the old Emporium or Barry’s Hardware.

-J

Privateers take to the roads in Sag Harbor

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

The hurry that people have while driving still makes me crazy with Hamptons drivers.

This weekend I had the pleasure of being passed while doing 30 in a 25 in the middle of town on Sagg road/Madison street.

To the middle age idiot driving the vet, your car sucks so much, please we are not impressed.

Now for the Audi A7 who blew the stop sing at Main and Madison then honked and flipped me off, his wife did too.

First off, very classy, second perhaps a course in drivers ed would do you some good.

When you have a stop sign here is a hint, stop.

When the on coming lane has the right away, let them go.

Flooring your car, driving at them and flipping them off while you honk shows you have no idea how to drive or read road signs.

As for the rude girl next to you, f-off, your fat.

- EB

Horny Bird Flashes Woman In Sag Harbor

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

I was driving to Sag Harbor for the weekend with a couple of friends.

All of a sudden, a LAMBORGHINI was on my a**…he continually was honking his horn & flashing his headlights.

He drove around me, while continuing to flash his lights/honking his horn… Gave me a BIRD, how sweet!

Where did he think he was??

In Germany, on the AUTOBAHN???

- EP

Honk If You Like the Bird In Sag Harbor

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

I was driving down main street in Sag Harbor and stopped to let parents who were carrying a baby go across the legal crosswalk.

Suddenly a man (if you want to call him that) in a BMW convertible goes around me and gives me the finger when I honk at him.

By the way, he nearly hit the poor family.

I took his plate # and called the S.H. police to let them know about it.

Sag Harbor needs summer TCO’s to help with their traffic situation on main street and the 6 way stops by the wharf and bridge area.  East Hampton has TCO’s everywhere.

Oh, and by the way, if everyone would just stop tailgating there would be no gridlock either.

- CP

No Cash, No Carry in Sag Harbor

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

So, I decided to get out early on Saturday morning to do some yard saling. Me and my sister ran into Noyak Deli in Sag Harbor to get breakfast. We ordered and were just standing around waiting for it to be ready.

A little later, two young college dropout looking guys go up to the counter with five or six cases of beer and start yelling at the cashier because the store doesn’t take ATM Cards and they have no other way of payment.

Me and my sister were actually scared to go get our breakfasts on the counter once they were ready because of how angry these guys were getting.

It’s not the cashier’s fault they don’t take ATM Cards! And it’s not like there’s anything they can do about it. You don’t have money? Sucks for you! Yelling will not make an ATM Machine suddenly appear so chill out and enjoy your vacation in the Hamptons.

- Hannah

New Jersey plates cause for accident fault presumptions

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

I was making a left on Bay Street into a private driveway this past week; I had my left turn signal on.

A contractor truck proceeds to pass me on the LEFT as I was turning. Needless to say there was a serious accident. My car is probably totaled.

What makes this unreal is that when the cop showed up he couldn’t figure out who was at fault for the accident. He said something to the effect that I had New Jersey license plates so maybe I didn’t know what I was doing.

One small problem with his theory, I grew up in the Hamptons.

- Local

In thinking up a title for this one, I’ve coined a new Hamptons term, New Jidiot: New Jersey Idiot. PLEASE NOTE: “Local” is not the idiot in this story.