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    Some stories from The Way of the Sub.

    It's only my second day there. >_< Most people have noticed this, and been pretty nice about it. The hardest part has been learning the difference between all the meat. There's chicken patty, chicken strips (sliced), teriaki, steak, and one more that I've forgotten the name of.

    The Smiles


    Kids


    A little kid came up and got a cookie. It came to $0.30. He put 33 cents on the counter. I don't want a kid of my own, but they usually make me smile when I see them in retail. Kids under 8 that try to order (successfully) are really cute to me.

    On The Same Side
    I glanced up at my cheat-sheet for a guy's sandwich, and he told me the amount and meat he was going to need, basically walking me through the whole sandwich.

    Me: (laughs) Wanna trade places?
    Him: No. I just finished working fast food. I worked at [golden arches] for 6 years. You're doing fine, by the way. You'll get it.

    Technical Difficulties

    Our window only opens a few inches every time you gesture towards it. So when I was giving a woman her chips, I had to gesture to it three times before it would open. She was quite amused with the situation.

    Her: It isn't working very well, is it?
    Me: No, not really. Have a nice day!

    The Shudders

    Come Away With Me
    Two of us dealt with creepers yesterday. One was GHS. I was mopping, so I didn't catch the whole conversation.

    This guy had a little boy with him. He was a little over-friendly at first, exuberant, but not all that bad. I heard him exclaim:

    Wow, you cut that perfectly.
    Wow! You did that perfectly.
    Wow! That looks exactly like the sandwich in the commercials. That's amazing.

    GHS rang him up. He leaned over the counter a bit.

    GHS: Do you want anything else?
    Guy: Your phone number.

    After he left, I went up to GHS.

    Meid that guy really just ask for your phone number?
    GHS: No, he wanted me to come home with him.

    That's even worse. GHS insisted the guy was gay, because he had the stereotypically gay voice, but the boy with him was most likely his son, so...

    Please Tell Me That's Just an Uncontrollable Twitch


    These guys started off pretty fun at first. We were joking around. I found there was no cheat sheet for the pizza sub, so I started the other sub they had first.

    I had to ask them to repeat themselves a few times, and joked that: "This headset renders me partially deaf."

    Even though it was our large sub, they wanted to do a half-and-half. People do it all the time to save money. They wanted the same meat. They were going to have separate cheeses, but the second guy changed his mind. Throughout the vegetables, one guy would order a veggie, and I'd look at the second guy to see if it was all across the sandwich, or just one half.

    The guy started to wink every time I made eye contact with him for that. He would lean in and whisper to the guy next to him, then wink again.

    It made me glad I didn't know how to work the register yet. I could disappear to the back when I was done making the sandwich.

    The Stupid


    Too Busy


    A woman sat and waited for the manager. GHS went to see what she wanted, then went to BTM, and said: "This woman still wants to talk to you." BTM told her to get the woman a drink.

    The woman yelled at her, saying that wasn't what she wanted. GHS started to cry. The woman relented then, saying it wasn't GHS's fault. BTM finally got a chance to talk to the woman. What was the woman upset about?

    We were too busy to feed her and her children promptly. Our dinner rush lasted four freaking hours lady. We ran out of two kinds of bread. If you had a headset on, all you heard was:

    "Can I have napkins? Can I have cucumbers? Can I have lettuce?" (Lettuce was refilled four times, still empty by the end of the rush) in between beeps alerting us someone was at the drive-thru.

    We spent the entire period trying to organize people to deal with the rush, meaning I was constantly moving from front counter to back counter.

    Healthy

    A woman orders two sandwiches over the drive-thru.

    Woman: And he wants something healthy. What's a healthy bread?
    BTM: [suggests a bread made of wheat with oats in it]
    Woman: And what's a healthy drink?
    BTM: ...milk?
    Woman: Do you have energy drinks?
    BTM: We have power-aid.
    Woman: What's that like?
    BTM: It's just like gator-aid.
    Woman: We'll take that.

    We Can All Hear You

    I just wanted to point out, don't have a marital argument in the drive-thru while waiting for us to take your order. We can hear you.

  • #2
    Hmm... I've never encountered a Way of the Sub with a drive thru before. Every single location I've seen in New England only has a walk-in.
    Fiancee: We're going to need to do laundry. I'm out of clean pants.
    Me: Sounds like a job for Gravekeeper!
    Fiancee: What?!
    Me: Nevermind.

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    • #3
      We've got one here that used to be a Dairy Queen. I've only used it once, just doesn't feel right.

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      • #4
        I know of one that's attached to a market shop at a gas station. I've been through it a couple of times. I prefer to go in, myself.

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        • #5
          Quoth Cooper View Post
          Woman: And what's a healthy drink?
          BTM: ...milk?
          Woman: Do you have energy drinks?
          BTM: We have power-aid.
          Woman: What's that like?
          BTM: It's just like gator-aid.
          Woman: We'll take that.
          .
          Soooon. Soon they will begin watering their crops with it . Because it has electrotytes! The time of prophecy is upon us!
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          • #6
            Quoth Geek King View Post
            Soooon. Soon they will begin watering their crops with it . Because it has electrotytes! The time of prophecy is upon us!
            Well, it is what plants crave.

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            • #7
              Him: No. I just finished working fast food. I worked at [golden arches] for 6 years. You're doing fine, by the way. You'll get it.
              i wish everyone was like that to people when they're new.

              at the local arby's we always try to remember to ring the bell just to get the workers credit. one time we had a guy on his first shift getting all nervous. poor kid, he really was trying hard too. I think I rang the bell extra hard that day.

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              • #8
                Quoth Cooper View Post
                The Stupid


                Too Busy


                A woman sat and waited for the manager. GHS went to see what she wanted, then went to BTM, and said: "This woman still wants to talk to you." BTM told her to get the woman a drink.

                The woman yelled at her, saying that wasn't what she wanted. GHS started to cry. The woman relented then, saying it wasn't GHS's fault. BTM finally got a chance to talk to the woman. What was the woman upset about?

                We were too busy to feed her and her children promptly. Our dinner rush lasted four freaking hours lady. We ran out of two kinds of bread. If you had a headset on, all you heard was:

                "Can I have napkins? Can I have cucumbers? Can I have lettuce?" (Lettuce was refilled four times, still empty by the end of the rush) in between beeps alerting us someone was at the drive-thru.

                We spent the entire period trying to organize people to deal with the rush, meaning I was constantly moving from front counter to back counter.
                We have Way of the Sub in the same building I work in, and because it's only one of two fast food restaurants downtown, they have a MAD lunch rush every darn day. You would have to be blind, deaf, and wheelchair-bound to not immediately notice the blurry-handed sandwich-making shitstorm going on behind the counter once the line starts heading out the door. Or, in this case, an entitled sucktomer who has nothing better to do with their time. I guess she was OK with having her kids bored stupid because mommy can't let it go. Great example there.

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                • #9
                  Yeah, thankfully, I seem to be getting one of those: "New eh? You'll get it" customer every day so far. Hopefully this ending will be the sign I'm actually getting it, but in the meantime, it's been really encouraging.

                  In bad news: GHS quit today. It seems to be largely due to the lady in Too Busy.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Geek King View Post
                    Soooon. Soon they will begin watering their crops with it . Because it has electrotytes! The time of prophecy is upon us!
                    I have been saying that for years now. Love the movie reference.
                    I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                    -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


                    "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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                    • #11
                      Quoth thehuckster View Post
                      Hmm... I've never encountered a Way of the Sub with a drive thru before. Every single location I've seen in New England only has a walk-in.

                      There are a few that have that around here. First one I encountered was back in the early 2000's in Haw River, NC.

                      We have at least one that I know of currently here in Greensboro (Bessemer and Summit Avenues) but I'm thinking we may have another one or two as well.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth thehuckster View Post
                        Hmm... I've never encountered a Way of the Sub with a drive thru before. Every single location I've seen in New England only has a walk-in.
                        The one by my parents' house has a drive-thru but I never use it. I am rendered utterly stupid enough just by walking through the front door of those places, I can only imagine trying to remember what kind of vegetables I like while sitting in my car. "Pickles! Wait, why did I just say pickles? I meant...some other green thing..."

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                        • #13
                          Quoth luckythegiraffe View Post
                          I meant...some other green thing..."
                          Pistachio pudding? The Hulk? Inquiring minds...
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                          • #14
                            Ok I'm confused over something. You mentioned something about a window that is supposed to open when you gesture toward it?

                            Yeah that's all I got after that long story
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                            • #15
                              The window is probably like the motion activated faucets in public bathrooms.

                              And it sounds like it's just as effective.

                              ^-.-^
                              Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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