I'm pushing the envelop of OOC. I would write this in my journal, but the issue is of such pertinence that I'd really hate to think that somebody missed it because of lack of initiative. This way, for a little while, it will be RIGHT IN YOUR FACE in the recent posts scrolling doohicky.
In the interests of laziness, I went to McDonalds to slave over a cooling speaker. (It is October now.) I ordered this that and the other. Then I came to the crux of this rant. I ordered a Double Cheeseburger, Only Ketchup, Only Onion. I was asked (this is VERBATIM)
"Do you want cheese on that double cheeseburger?"
I was flummoxed. I'm afraid I was rude. I said (this is VERBATIM)
"Isn't the cheese rather crucial for a double CHEESEburger?"
(Sometimes I just get silly when I talk into the speaker, like when I was going through a hip hop phase and ordered a "Biggity Biggity Mac" - true story.) (Oh, and then there was the time I was told to leave Arby's becaues I ordered a "carton of milk" and for some reason the ears of the order taker could not process the word "milk" into a sensible catagory for her brain. I said, "MILK... you know WHITE STUFF... It comes out of a COW." It must have been a faulty speaker, because she then said, "Did you call me a COW? You can just DRIVE ON." True story.)
So, back to what makes a cheeseburger a cheeseburger. Is it taking customer service TOO far for a cashier to assume you want cheese on your cheeseburger, even when you indicate you don't want pickles? Personally I'd feel silly asking for a cheeseburger with cheese. It'd be like saying you were going to watch a dirty mudpit wrestling match.
Am I just being a bitch?
In the interests of laziness, I went to McDonalds to slave over a cooling speaker. (It is October now.) I ordered this that and the other. Then I came to the crux of this rant. I ordered a Double Cheeseburger, Only Ketchup, Only Onion. I was asked (this is VERBATIM)
"Do you want cheese on that double cheeseburger?"
I was flummoxed. I'm afraid I was rude. I said (this is VERBATIM)
"Isn't the cheese rather crucial for a double CHEESEburger?"
(Sometimes I just get silly when I talk into the speaker, like when I was going through a hip hop phase and ordered a "Biggity Biggity Mac" - true story.) (Oh, and then there was the time I was told to leave Arby's becaues I ordered a "carton of milk" and for some reason the ears of the order taker could not process the word "milk" into a sensible catagory for her brain. I said, "MILK... you know WHITE STUFF... It comes out of a COW." It must have been a faulty speaker, because she then said, "Did you call me a COW? You can just DRIVE ON." True story.)
So, back to what makes a cheeseburger a cheeseburger. Is it taking customer service TOO far for a cashier to assume you want cheese on your cheeseburger, even when you indicate you don't want pickles? Personally I'd feel silly asking for a cheeseburger with cheese. It'd be like saying you were going to watch a dirty mudpit wrestling match.
Am I just being a bitch?