I was in the drive-thru lane at a very popular fast-food restaurant for lunch yesterday. I know, tsk tsk Jim, I erased a few recent walks. Anyway, I’m in a nice short line for a change–usually the line is all the way around the building at the time I go to lunch–so this was nice to see. There were two cars ahead of me. I get one car away from ordering and the guy in front of me turns off his car and opens his door and starts trying to order:

” A sausage muffin with egg…” he begins…

The employee says “I’m sorry sir, we’re on the lunch menu now.”

“OK, Two hashbrowns…”

She repeats the same thing she said before.

“Dang! Y’all ain’t got nothin’ I want then! How about…” He looks over the menu and asks something else I couldn’t quite hear, and she responds to him again, giving him another response he didn’t like. And again, and again, back and forth.

She apologizes, he stammers a bit more, then finally angrily says “Alright then!” , slams his door, and drives out of the drive-thru.

This all seemed to take longer than when there’s usually a line of customers around the building waiting to order. Very frustrating, and it ate up half of my lunch hour.

PS: The fake Trump-Biden debate on The Howard Stern Show that I listened to during my lunch break yesterday was much more entertaining than the real debate last night, which was a real Fustercluck.