Welcome- can I take your order?
--Yes, I'd like a small fry and a cheeseburger with no mustard (pause for attendant processing) double cheese, double pickles, please.
Extra mustard?
--No, no. No mustard, double cheese, double pickles, please.
Oh, okay.
jenji consults the drive-thru LCD so as to confirm the order wherein she sees the following:
-1 small fry
-1 cheeseburger
-NO mustard
-NO cheese
-EXTRA pickles
Will that complete your order?
--No, no...I'd like no mustard and double the cheese and double the pickles.
Oh, okay.
jenji refers to the LCD one more time:
-small fry
-cheeseburger
-NO mustard
-EXTRA CHEESE
-EXTRA PICKLES
Would you like to guess what I found once I returned home and unwrapped my burger?
Why Marvin, why? The plane would have crashed is all I'm sayin.
jenji
11 comments:
My husband always asks for "extra ice," which translated into fast-food speak must mean "no ice."
Poor Jenji. Let's dissect this little encounter, shall we?
(a.) thank you for thinking of me. You are MOST kind.
(b.) I'm glad you're eating something. Even if it's not what you ordered. ;-)
(c.) I'm guessing you got the Mustardburger, no cheese, no pickles, extra onions.
(d.) Hopefully there was not an extra loogie on your mustardburger. I am always super nice to restaurant people, because I do not like loogies in my food. Now you can go throw up at the thought.
I just noticed your fish. I think that is VERY cool. I wish he would make a piranha version. With splashy sounds. >;->
I think it's time we picked on MtM. Why is it socially acceptable for him to say he's glad that you're eating, and yet it's not socially acceptable to tell a fat person "I'm glad you're not eating"? Although, knowing him, he probably would. :)
Marvin:
Which is precisely why my fast-food interactions are littered with such pleasantries: "please," "thank you" and "you look marvelous," so as to avoid the loogie variable. I never throw a fit when food is involved. In fact, I rarely throw a fit, period.
Yes, please do feed my fish, they are very needy, as I often forget to feed them myself.
AEJ:
I cannot participate in any ribbing that may be directed toward MtM, as he is my friend and in that, entirely exempt from said ribbing despite the fact that he wears a funny hat, harbors mystery felines and votes Republican.
And thank you for your comments about the film. For some reason your comment doesn't seem to be showing up. I'm glad you could identify with the piece and garner insight into its positive implications.
jenji
This is why when going up to the driver-thru I just select something that I can eat without any special order necessary. If I need to issue instructions I get out of the car and go inside.
It's not that they'll get it right, but it's easier to send back when they screw up.
I survived a few months of working at McDonalds back when I was 17 (and every job I've had since has seemed not so bad by comparison). I know better than to expect too much from people making minimum wage. They've got it bad enough already.
If I had feelings, they might be hurting. Lucky me. ;-)
I was teasing about the sandwich. I know that eating is an issue. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been a jerk.
And I vote fascist when I can. The republicans aren't worth it. I just scribbled them a nasty note on their last fundraiser letter. "You squandered your chance," I said.
You asked about DVDs. I was getting rid of things like "Akira" and "Boston Legal" and "Angel" and "Forever Knight" and "Sleepy Hollow" and "Where Eagles Dare" and such. A smorgasbord. I'm keeping "The Mummy" movies, though. I like younger Brendan Fraser. And oh, whatsername. His wife. She's a hoot.
You're a riot girl...honestly.....hehe......
I feel your pain....sadly, yours is not an isolated incident.
Hehe. Sounds normal enough to me. Sadly.
I think I go to the same drive thru!!!
I need a little Jenji, I do.
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