January 15, 7:45pm: Nothing too noteworthy here unless you consider that I was one of millions of people today who got ripped-off from the drive-thru vigilante. I ordered eight chicken breasts from El Pollo Loco (http://www.elpolloloco.com/) and when I got home there was six. SIX! Not seven… not nine or even the eight I ordered, but six. How could I have fallen for the oldest trick in the drive-thru book. The trick is full proof: (1) Repeat their order correctly, (2) Act polite when the customer pulls up to the window, (3) Collect the money for eight chicken breasts, (4) Offer the correct change while being perky, (5) Offer napkins and condiments, (6) Hand customer the goods with such confidence that the customer won’t check contents, (7) Say, “Thank you very much” as the customer leaves, (8) Turn to co-workers and make fist-pump gesture as if scoring a touchdown or securing Soviet information for free, (9) Retreat to the mop closet to eat the two stolen chicken breasts, (10) Wait 20 minutes for pissed off customer to call from home and say, “No hablo ingles.”
[my right hand is raised and my left hand is on a Bible… well, not the entire Bible, just the New Testament] “This will never happen again. I promise to always check the contents of my order before I leave the drive-thru so help me God.”
By the way, only two breasts were for me. Hmmm?
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I love your writing style and your sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteThis is obviously on your mind all the time and that is going to go a long way....consistency is key.
Constantly thinking about it
Constantly starting over
Constantly having the M&M's and fries removed from your reach
Constantly remembering your Eat This, Not That book
....even with the aspartame damage :)
Good luck!
You are too funny. Who can't identify? How many of us dwell on food? You allow our battles with our weight and nutrition to take on new meaning. Maybe if we can see it as the subject of an ongoing joke, it will be easier to wrestle it to the ground. Keep up the good work!
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