Last Friday evening, I drove up to Ft. Wayne to visit my friend, Olivia. She's spending the summer up there and I'd not had a heart-to-heart with her in far too long. So I drove up...she had Dairy Queen and I had Sonic (praise the Lord!) and we went for a long walk and just talked.
On the way up, this was the sight in my car as I went past the "Please reduce your speed to 55" sign.
CHECK!!
But my favorite story from that night was my drive home. After having walked lo those many miles, I was kinda thirsty. But I didn't want to get an iced tea in Ft. Wayne, because then I'd have to do the whole bathroom break thing on the way home and that was just too much effort. So I decided to wait for this one McDonald's just off the interstate about halfway between Ft. Wayne and home.
You know how fast food restaurants and gas stations have forty million feet tall signs by interstates? (Perhaps a mild exaggeration, but not much.) Well for reasons unknown to me, because hello I'm NOT stupid, I elected to drive toward the sign in search of this McDonald's. Please note that the sign was located several hundred feet away and nowhere near the entrance to the actual McDonald's. So I drove around a couple of buildings and got stared at by some truckers...and found the proper entrance.
Pulled up to the little thingie-ma-doo and said I wanted a large unsweetened iced tea. (I was having a fat day - no sweet tea allowed.) That would be $1.07...please pull around to the second window. I went zooming around the building and as I headed for the second window, I saw a window open and a girl lean out. I slammed on the brakes just as I passed her, and she said, "This IS the second window."
Woops.
I turned around and sure enough, right back there at the edge of the building was window one. Well that's just dumb. A three window McDonald's? So while trying NOT to turn red about that, I pulled out my money and handed it to her.
I was formulating a question in my mind about artificial sweetener (do NOT lecture me), but before I could ask, she said, "Uh, it's just ONE dollar?" And she handed me back the extra one I gave her. Great. So now I can't count windows or money. Super.
I asked about the sweetener situation, and giving me a totally exasperated look, she said, "Uh you can just ask them up there at that next window when they give you your tea."
Good night nurse.
2 comments:
Oh my! You really did need some tea, for that little jolt to the brain from the caffeine.
I KNOW!! And I did get it...at last. :)
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