Getting What You Ask For

I work at a famous customizable sandwich shop. We have a pair of regulars, a husband and wife, who always order the same sandwich for their son. Today, we get to the vegetables and the wife stops me.

Wife: “My son always complains that you put too much lettuce on the sandwich. It’s really annoying me. Please put one, and only one, of each kind of vegetable on the sandwich. One slice of cucumber, one tomato, one thin strip of onion, and one-half inch long piece of shredded lettuce.”

We’re not monsters, so I gave them a reasonable amount of vegetables in a salad container.

The next time they came in, the regulars laughingly said the son didn’t speak to either of them for an entire day afterward, and the wife then prompted me to put more lettuce on the sandwich.