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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Unfortunate. 

This morning is NOT off to a good start. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have classes from 8AM to 8:15PM. Those days are so long anyway, I hate when little things go wrong, because then I just feel all discombobulated all day. This morning, I went to the coffee stand outside the library. During the normal school year, I prefer the student union, because the coffee is better, and so is the service. But whatever, this stand has fat-free yogurt flavors (although less of them) and decaf coffee, and skim milk. So it roughly meets my needs. Yesterday, I bought my yogurt and coffee there, and I noticed that my yogurt was expired by one day. That's frustrating, but it WAS only one day, and it looked fine, and tasted ok, so I didn't say anything. I've worked in food service like that and I know how easy it is to overlook checking code dates once in a while by mistake. But today I went back and there was only 1 yogurt that wasn't expired. So I bought that one (Peach - EW) and just quietly mentioned to the woman, so at least she KNEW. I mean, I wasn't complaining, I just thought someone ought to know. She rings up my yogurt and coffee, and passes me the cup. I walk over to the cream/sugar/lid kiosk-thing, and there are no spoons for my yogurt! Only forks. That's irritating, but not the end of the world. I toss the yogurt and fork in my bag, and grab the skim milk. And then I notice it. A BUG IN MY COFFEE. I looked really closely, and it definitely was a bug. 2 wings, 6 legs, floating in my coffee. So I walk back over, wait in line, and finally there is no one left, and I pass the cup back to the woman, and tell her about the bug. She says, "That's not a bug, that's grounds." ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! With nearly 10 years of college under my belt, I'm pretty sure I can identify a bug. At least in comparison to COFFEE GROUNDS. Now I was MAD. So I said, "Look, unless your coffee grounds had legs and wings, THAT IS NOT COFFEE GROUNDS. Further, you should know that for the OUTRAGEOUS prices you charge, my coffee should be free of grounds, wingless or OTHERWISE." People in the lobby started to look in our direction, and I felt bad, but really! Enough was enough. She said that the manager was not there, so she couldn't give me a refund, but she could give me another kind of coffee. ARGH. I can't wait for summer to be over, and regular things to be open again.
Comments:
I'm so glad you stood up for yourself and had some good comebacks right away. I'm always like a deer in the headlights in those situations, and think of a half dozen perfect things I could have said 2 minutes after walking away. Kicking myself all the time.
Well, that's probably best. I'm too much of a smart ass sometimes, and it just ends up leading to conflict. I think Darryl spends half of his life just telling me to LET IT GO. ;)
That kind of reminds me of Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit.

"It's a fly, in my coffee."
"No, it tisnt"
"It most certainly is!"
"Noo, Noo, Noooo. That's grounds!"
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