Since When Do Hostages Get Paid?

In the mid-1980s, the restaurant where my friend worked added a drive-thru. My buddy was known as the store jokester. He’d sometimes answer the drive-thru intercom using a bad foreign accent, etc.

This time, he thought it would be funny to attach a note to a customer’s food.

Note: “HELP! I’M BEING HELD HOSTAGE.”

The customer didn’t get the joke and called the cops.

Amazingly, my buddy didn’t get fired.