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Tasting at ice cream shops should not be allowed. Getting the wrong flavor of ice cream is not a high stakes enough decision to justify multiple swings at it. Pick a flavor.

Three!!? After watching somebody try one flavor I'm already livid.

Have some grace! If they’re not hemming and hawing and just saying “hey can I taste X” and doing it quickly, what’s the problem? Why is ice cream “low stakes” for them but so high stakes for you that you can’t wait 30 more seconds for it?

The context is that I live next door to an ice cream shop and their line is always like 50 people long and it's because every transaction takes 3x longer than it needs to if people would just pick a flavor. It offends my need for efficiency.