Libertine: On the Prowl

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Don't Expect Us To Think; We're Just Doing Our Job

02:56, 2008-Aug-8 .. Posted in rants .. 6 comments .. Link

Pardon my lack of blogging in the last few days. My primary lover, who has been out of town for the better part of a month returned home the other day and we've been....busy. You get the drill, I'm sure.

I'm still kind of worn out and not all that inspired to write, but somthing happened this morning that was rant-worthy, so I'll write about that.

After going out to pay a bill this morning, I swung through a fast-food drive-through for lunch. I won't name the chain, but it is one that usually has better service than the abysmal McDonald's a block further up the road.

I ordered a burger, fries, and drink combo, telling them to leave off the tomato, pickles, and mayonnaise on the burger. Those who have read my blog in the past know that while I don't hate mayo, per se, I prefer to have it left off my burgers because most restaurants put way too much of it on burgers. Too much mayo on a burger makes the bun soggy and prone to disintegration as soon as you pick it up. It also has a bad habit of turning the lettuce into a limp, slimy mess. Tomatoes and pickles, I just hate them on a burger, period.

After I told the squawk box that I didn't want these three things on my burger, there was a prolonged, stunned silence on the other end. I'm guessing they were trying to gather up enough brain cells to actually....think!

Finally, after a long while, a woman's voice snaps, "Just what DO you want on your burger?" I sighed and spelled it out for them, "Everything else that normally comes on that burger, except for the three things I mentioned." In this case, that would be lettuce, onions, and mustard.

But it was a naive hope that they'd be able to actually use their brains. When I got home and opened my burger, I found they've given me a naked burger; there was NOTHING on it. It was too much for their little brains to comprehend leaving off three ingredients while including the other three normally included. For them, it's either everything on it, or nothing at all.

And they didn't give me a straw for my drink, either. I guess that was my punishment for expecting them actually to think.

Morons.

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03:34, 2008-Aug-8 .. Posted by texican
That reminds me of the time we went to Florida, when I was a kid. We went to a McDonald's to eat and Dad tried to order his burger without ketchup (I think). The girl said she they all came with ketchup. He asked if they could just leave it off...she said they came that way. Finally, after a little more of this lively debate, he asked whether or not, at some point in the burger-building process, was there a step where they added the ketchup. She said yes. He then asked if that step could possibly be skipped. She said no. We ate somewhere else.

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07:38, 2008-Aug-8 .. Posted by WelshPixie
Haha, wow. That's pretty lame.

We had Burger King tonight and it was gooood.

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09:07, 2008-Aug-8 .. Posted by thebigp
Like Joe Pesci said...

"They FUCK YOU at the drive thru!!"

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10:01, 2008-Aug-8 .. Posted by DeeJay
My daughter HATES mayo and they tended to always forget to leave it off the sandwich. Now, we lie and tell them she has a severe allergy to mayo and could become very ill if they put it on her sandwich. It works, they always remember to leave it off!

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12:35, 2008-Aug-10 .. Posted by littleMissConfused
I have gotten so sick of bad service like that. I have finally decided I am not going to just be a passive complaining customer any more. When stuff like that happens to me. I complain to the manager. If I am already home, I call them and tell them what my experience was. If no one tells the manager what's happening, the employees will never change. I usually get a free meal the next time I go in....the service gets better too!

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07:16, 2008-Aug-12 .. Posted by logis
The straw can be a honest misstake. The burger, dont haslle people who have to earn money standing by a drive thru window. They either are to dumb to get another job or are so stressed out by all debts they have they dont want extra troubles while doing their second or maybe third job.