Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Supersize my frustration please

Ok, so you're at the drive-thru at and the person in front of you has one of those orders that makes you groan because it's far too complex for the uninterested teenager working the window. There are like 50 people in line, and just taking the order from this person eats up 3 or 4 minutes.

What I love is when they get their order and decide to check it to make sure everything is in there before pulling away from the window. They make everyone else wait in line while they sort through each bag making sure they won't have to go through the tremendous trouble of removing a pickle from their Big Mac. They could pull into a parking place or even inch forward a bit so the rest of us could get on with our lives, but no - they sit there oblivious to the world around them while they rummage through food sacks and take a slug off of their diet coke.

You freaking special order fast food people kill me. You roll up with some offensively complex order and demand that every morsel is properly served. Doesn't it occur to you that McDonalds is not the best place to go if you want things special ordered? YOU DO KNOW that they make all the stuff before you arrive and keep it under heat lamps, right? Those commercials showing them cooking and preparing your burger fresh when you order it - that's a LIE. It's a sandwich assembly line and everything is made the same. So when you try to get a "slightly breaded chicken sandwich with extra tomatoes, light on the lettuce, no onions, no sauce, fresh bun with no seeds on it please" you mess everything up for the rest of us who don't have our expectations set quite as high for a sandwich we paid $3 for that is served to us through a window in our car. Besides, recent studies show that stupid orders like yours have about a .005% chance of being handled correctly.

Know this too...when you are placing an order like this (and we all know that you are because when you take longer than 2 minutes to order we all roll our windows down to hear what in the world you could be saying for that long) you are making enemies at the drive-thru. WE DO NOT LIKE YOU. When you get to the window it takes you much longer than anyone else to get your food, which makes us even angrier. So when you finally get your food, and yet your car doesn't move...and we see you checking the entire order and sometimes even having the gaul to hand it out to the passengers...well, don't be surprised if you are given no less than three (3) dirty looks and the occasional car cursing from your fellow food seekers.

Listen to me very closely now...get your worthless hindquarters out of the drive-thru and park someplace else to check your overly complicated order. Or, better yet, learn to eat your freaking hamburger with ketchup on it and QUIT SPECIAL ORDERING EVERYTHING!

Otherwise, I'm not responsible for what happens to you or your precious little "filet-o-fish, no onions, no sauce, extra ketchup with a coke with the cup only halfway filled up with ice..."

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