For those who are meikel: http://mikomos.com/wiki/Cold_Stone_Creamery
Above is a link to a coupon for 20% off at Coldstone. Of course, most people in the Coffee Room can’t benefit from this. Even those who are meikel to use Rav Moshe ZTL’s heter to eat chalav stam might still have a problem with the breach in tznius that goes on at many Coldstones. Imagine the following scenario: as you are getting your ice cream, a girl walks in with a skirt only goes 3 and a half inches below her knee. As she walks in the air conditioning in the store will blow her skirt so that a quarter centimeter of her knee is visible for 1/3 of a second. Since you are male, and therefore by definition you are an animal who cannot control your taavos, you will be very negatively affected by this occurrence and you therefore feel that she should be hung. Despite this, you think that she is good looking and that is really all that matters (other than her age) so you snap a picture of her to send to all the mothers of your single friends. The girl then goes up to the counter where the overly friendly worker starts shmoozing with her about the email he just received from Yeshiva World about YTC/TEAM’s Chinese Auction. He says that he wants to enter because he thinks it’s a segula for a shidduch to give maaser. So he enters the raffle for 2 tickets to Israel. As luck would have it, he wins the raffle, goes to Israel and ascends the Har HaBayis which rachmana litzlan starts a religious war just as Rav Elyshiv had warned. Of course, this guy
(who has never learned Shas Mishnayos) doesn’t follow Daas Torah so he didn’t listen and even afterwords, he puts the blame on the untznius kollel wives who dress that way because they are insecure feminists who need to impress the women who run schools so that they can get jobs in Chinuch that are 3 months behind payroll because their major donors are taking vacations. Another cause of the war is the fact that people are using iPad’s to shop on the Internet in the parking lot of McDonalds even though the Internet is assur. But it is OK because they are helping Chofetz Chaim make money and Chofetz Chaim has a differnet way of life anyway. Anyone who pronounces a cholom as oh instead of oy is obviously not yeshivish enough to not use the Internet and probably eats cholov stam and treife fish that will give them High Cholesterol.