For those who feel luckless in the world, allow me to pose this: Has any of this happened to you?
* On a routine trip to Taco Bell to get one of those burritos: "I'm sorry, sir; but we're out of ground beef."
* Trying to order a milkshake at McDonalds: "Sorry, we're out of mix for the shake machine." At 1:00 pm in the afternoon during the lunch rush? Who does the order placements?
* At Speedway gas station, trying desperately to get cheese for chili cheese fries: "We're out of cheese again." Three days in a row, no less. This happens to my roommate all the time. What's bothersome is that I go in a half-hour later to buy some milk, and there's somebody putting a boatload of cheese on his order. Bordering on conspiracy, I wonder?
* At KFC just a month ago, at 3:00 in the afternoon: "There's no chicken right now," later clarified to "Well, we just don't have any ready to go." Shouldn't a chicken place have chicken at all times?
* The Tim Horton's donut shop near me hasn't had my flavor of donuts four out of the last five visits.
* And the topper? Check out this exchange from a trip to Burger King:
Roommate: I'd like a Whopper, please.
Counter: We're out.
Roommate: How can you be out? I'll take onion rings.
Counter: We're sold out of those.
Roommate: What the ...? How about some fries?
Counter: Nope.
Roommate: What DO you have?
Counter: We have hamburgers.
Roommate (sarcastically): But you don't have Whoppers?
Counter (seriously): Nope.
The remainder of the exchange cannot be printed verbatim, because I value being on this blog.
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Also got a good laugh this morning. The roommate asked me to look up the word "failure" on Google. OK, I knew this was one of his showoff tricks, so I mumbled to myself "Okay, it will probably have President Bush on it."
It did. As the first entry on the first page. Underneath the website Whitehouse.gov! This in addition to the Wikipedia entry on the president no longer allowing changes or revises because of rampant "vandalism" throughout the entry. Wow. When the polls say only 40% of the nation approves what he's doing, they obviously don't seem to be wrong.
