Sunday, October 09, 2005

Cheeseburgers?

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?

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