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My boyfriend sent that little nugget of a text to me while I was at work last night. He went on to explain that he had gone to a fast food restaurant down the street from our apartment to pick up something for his supper, and there he encountered an SC in the wild.
The girl at the counter had rung up the wrong order, it seemed, and this caused the man in line in front of my boyfriend to start screaming about being ripped off. It got to the point that another coworker had to step in. This new worker rung the order up correctly, and...wait for it...
The correct total was higher than the wrong order. This upset the man even more, and he yelled, "I want the first order she took!"
Meanwhile, the first employee had apologized, by my boyfriend's count, nine times for her mistake and had explained that she had only started two weeks previously. By now the second employee was trying to get the man to move over so the situation could be dealt with without blocking the register, but he was having none of it. He would prefer to yell and back up the line, thank you.
It was then that my boyfriend had to step in. Don't get between this man and his dinner. He stepped in between the yelling man and the counter.
He pointed at the apologizing employee and said, "You. Stop apologizing for being new."
He pointed at the yelling man and said, "You. Go over there and stop being annoying. I want to order my food."
The yelling man was so shocked that he actually did. Boyfriend reports that while ordering, he consoled the employee by telling her that everyone at every job was new at some point. Further, he reports that he was leaving the restaurant with an enormous, bright yellow and red box (Carolinians will recognize the restaurant from that tidbit of info) filled with chicken and other fattening delicacies, and the man was still at the counter bitching, although in a somewhat more subdued manner.
The girl at the counter had rung up the wrong order, it seemed, and this caused the man in line in front of my boyfriend to start screaming about being ripped off. It got to the point that another coworker had to step in. This new worker rung the order up correctly, and...wait for it...
The correct total was higher than the wrong order. This upset the man even more, and he yelled, "I want the first order she took!"
Meanwhile, the first employee had apologized, by my boyfriend's count, nine times for her mistake and had explained that she had only started two weeks previously. By now the second employee was trying to get the man to move over so the situation could be dealt with without blocking the register, but he was having none of it. He would prefer to yell and back up the line, thank you.
It was then that my boyfriend had to step in. Don't get between this man and his dinner. He stepped in between the yelling man and the counter.
He pointed at the apologizing employee and said, "You. Stop apologizing for being new."
He pointed at the yelling man and said, "You. Go over there and stop being annoying. I want to order my food."
The yelling man was so shocked that he actually did. Boyfriend reports that while ordering, he consoled the employee by telling her that everyone at every job was new at some point. Further, he reports that he was leaving the restaurant with an enormous, bright yellow and red box (Carolinians will recognize the restaurant from that tidbit of info) filled with chicken and other fattening delicacies, and the man was still at the counter bitching, although in a somewhat more subdued manner.
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