Unhelpful

Point of reference: I’m the idiot.

I just came back from going through a KFC drive-through, after thinking I had an amazing experience.

“I’d like a number seven with a Pepsi.”

I’m told my total and such. Then, “umm, a seven is the honey barbecue sandwich meal”.

“Oh, you’re right, I meant a number six. Thanks!”

As I drove off, I realized how uncanny–no, downright eerie–she knew that I had mis-ordered when I hadn’t used the name of the product. Wow!

Now, sitting down, feeling like the ‘tard that I am, I realized I actually said “I’d like a number seven, no tomato, with a Pepsi” and that, obviously, the honey barbecue sandwich doesn’t have tomato anyway.

This story was a lot cooler before I figured out the punchline. I now wonder why I even decided to write about it anyway.

In (mostly) utterly (somewhat) unrelated comments, I’m interested in maybe seeing “Supersize Me”, but I’m a little annoyed by what I assume to be the premise: that eating an exclusively fast food diet will make you fat and unhealthy. This is wrong, and I hope I’m not right about that assumption. Eating too much food at a fast food restaurant will make you fat and unhealthy. I admit it, that’s about 90% of my diet, but I do tend toward one meal a day, and generally take fish or chicken over beef. I recall the last time I accidentally said “super size” at McDonalds instead of “large” or just keeping a medium. It had been years since I’d made that mistake, and in the meantime, apparently “super size” was code for “a not insignificant portion of Idaho’s net daily potato output and a beverage fit for total long-term kidney irrigation”. This was, I believe, just a few months before “Supersize Me” topped off the events which led to the discontinuation of the Super Size Meal at McDonalds.

No tomato.