Getting Themselves Into An Extra Pickle
(I am working at the drive-thru.)
Customer: “Yes, I want a hamburger with pickles.”
(Our hamburgers already come with pickles; I’ve been working long enough to interpret this as asking for extra pickles.)
Me: “Okay, one hamburger with extra pickles.”
Customer: “No, I want a hamburger with pickles.”
Me: “Oh, so, you mean you want only pickles?”
Customer: “No, I want a hamburger with pickles.”
Me: *pause* “A hamburger with extra pickles.”
(This goes back and forth for a while, until finally the customer yells at me through the headset.)
Customer: “I JUST WANT A HAMBURGER WITH PICKLES. WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!”
Me: *losing it* “BECAUSE THE HAMBURGER ALREADY COMES WITH PICKLES, SO YOU SAYING, ‘WITH PICKLES,’ MEANS NOTHING TO ME!”
(I can hear his realization and his passenger’s reaction.)
Customer: “Oh. Then just a regular hamburger.”
(The rest of the transaction went okay.)
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