Unfiltered Story #360326

The breakfast special at a popular local restaurant is a sandwich containing eggs, bacon, and hash browns, plus an optional small cup of sausage gravy “for dippin'” The server, a middle-aged woman, approaches:
Me: I’d like the breakfast special, but with the hash browns on the side instead of on the sandwich, and I’ll take the gravy.
Server: So you want a side of hash browns and a side of gravy?
Me: The hash browns come with the breakfast special.
Server: So you want a second order of hash browns?
Me: No, I want the hash browns that come with the special to go on the side instead, and I’d like the gravy that comes with the special, too.
Server: So a side of hash browns and a side of gravy. Do you want the gravy poured over the hash browns?
Me: No, I want the gravy in the little cup that you always use. Like the menu says, “a cup of sausage gravy for dippin.'”
Server: So you want a whole bowl of gravy?
Me: No, the dipping cup that you always use. They’re small.
Server: What kind of gravy? We have sausage gravy that we use with breakfast, and brown gravy that we use for lunch.
Me: The kind of gravy that comes with the BREAKFAST special.
Server: And do you want your bowl of gravy first, or with your entree?
Me: With! The way it’s always served! The way it’s advertised in this menu!
Server [Looks at the menu dubiously] So you want that along with your bowl of gravy?
[Miraculously, when the order came, everything was right. The cooks must have known how to read a menu.]