No Change
I recently used the drive-through at a nationally-known fast food “restaurant”. {Frankly, I have always been a little confused as to how they are they even permitted to use the word “restaurant” considering the “food product” that they sell.} After yelling my food order into the speaker, I was instructed to “drive around for your total”. I did exactly that, being a cooperative sort-of soul . . . well, that and I was hungry and borderline homicidal {thank you, hypoglycemia!}. I then sat and waited . . . and waited . . . and waited to hear how much I owed, all while overhearing the order-taking minion tell every customer behind me how much their orders totaled. {Which leads me to also wonder about the “fast” in “fast food”.} Finally, the cashier slammed open the window of her fortress, thrust out her open hand, and demanded $5.48. She then proceeded to glare at me while I dug for change as though I should have read her mind and had the exact change ready. I gave her exactly $5.50 and in return, she handed me a greasy, carb-laden, chock-full-of-cholesterol, heart-attack-in-a-bag. What she did not hand me was my two cents worth of change. I am officially two-cent-less.
Now what am I going to do when I need to forcefully proffer my unsolicited opinion?
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April 16th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Hahahaha… I’m sure you have to of something worth offering.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Dude, I can’t believe I did that. TWO.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:24 am
I know what TWO that would be …………………..
( o )( o )
a beautiful TWO , I might add !!!!Bahahahaha
April 16th, 2007 at 11:30 am
You can always relish the fact that her job will probably soon be outsourced to India and centralized call/order-taking centers. Some phast phood chains are already experimenting with this. So… I wonder what the unskilled that aren’t attractive enough to pursue careers as strippers will be doing?
April 16th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Ha….John hit the nail on the head. Smile, her time is coming.
Did you save me a cheeseburger?
April 16th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I so would have demanded that two cents back. Just a couple of days ago some grocery bagger gave me attitude for asking to double bag something, so I immediately went to management and she got an attitude adjustment from mgmt. as I was running for my car.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Maybe she was giving you a hint…or perhaps she wanted to just keep your two cents for herself.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:29 am
If you must do it “fast” give WENDY’s a try. The one in my area is so fast you don’t even have to hit the brakes from the speaker past the pay window and out the driveway.
April 18th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Jim: the only problem with Wendy’s is that 95% of their food (aka, everything but the salads) is so BLAND!
I just remembered a funny story from one time in L.A. A gf and I stopped in at the Carl’s Jr. drive-through. Paid. And drove away without our food because we were too busy jabbering!!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
That’s nothing, one time at our local Taco Hell the cashier neglected to give me my change…all $10 worth! I paid with a $20 and change so I would get just a bill back and for some reason I didn’t catch it until later. I called and complained, apparently other people had complained of the same thing with the same cashier, they fired him.
All that for fake, soy Mexican food. Bleh. Also: I HATE Wendy’s.
April 24th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Since I live in a small town, all of the restaurants around here (even the fast food type) offer great service, though that’s only because everyone knows everyone, so it’s personal. I used to live in a bigger city called MSF, and there were a couple of restaurants that were so bad people attempted to figure out who worked what shift in an attempt to get the best possible non-service from the best of the worst employees.
When I lived in Milwaukee… Let’s just say I didn’t eat fast food when I lived in Milwaukee.