they did whaaa?

today i went to sonic in a nearby town. i ordered a large sweet tea & small tots. ($3.75)

i was happy when a nice employee brought out my food. i gave her my debit. i was in a bit of a hurry because i was attending a workshop for school. (btw workshop is great!!!) i will withhold the exact place in order to not incriminate anyone in particular...

after waiting & waiting for the nice employee to bring my card back -- i walked up to the door for employee's only. Here's what happened next... 


nice sonic employee: sorry - our machine isn't working right.  So i continue to stand there while the manager (i guess) runs the card through the machine. over & over.
manager: sorry for your wait. it's not your card it's our machine.
me: im in a little bit of a hurry.
manager: do you have any cash??
me: nope. i didn't bring any today.
manager: can you go to the bank?
me: i dunno. is there a pnc bank nearby? (i bank in decatur)
manager: i don't know.
me: well i need to get back to a meeting...
manager: then you'll have to give the food back.

me: excuse me?

manager: you have to give us the food back.
me: give it back?
manager: yes! so the nice employee & i walk back to my hot car where the food has been. i open the door to return the food....
nice employee: i'm really sorry about this. i don't think this is quite riiight.
me: yeah, me neither. the story ends with me running into a gas station to grab a bag of chips & mtn dew before the workshop resumes...

     seriously, she took back my fooooood!!!  i know they threw it away. it was used foood. gross!! $3.75!!! my card worked, her machine didn't.

     food service people...is this policy????? take served food backkkk? hmmm. i tried to pay. i had plastic money. oh well. i love a new good story!!! :)  

"they say california is the place ya oughta be, so we packed up our bags"....

it's so funny to me how such random thoughts come to me at strange times...(a.d.d. i guess you'd say) but this memory came to mind today right smack in the middle of church. but i got a little tickled to myself  (LQTM as i say = laughin quietly to meself)....here's the thought.....

once upon a time in the land of for real, a nice decent family (think "the cleaver's" or more like the "clampetts" or maybe the "griswolds") went on a family vacay...these nice decent people went to LA -- yep indeed, this fine upstanding family took a little trip to CALIFORNIA.

Five fabulous people packed into a 5-speed chevy citation traveling the streets of los angeles!!! weeeeeeeeeeo. all is well. As this family trekked around that BIG city, taking in all the sights and sounds they turned down the street of a particularly friendly block. Standing on some benches were some very very friendly high school type people. The students were waving as the tourists drove by.

Well this upstanding family was soooo impressed by this friendly group of kids that they
s-l-o-w-e-d down that lil chevy and tooted the horn in the friendliest of ways and all 5 members of the family were waving and smiling and staring at this warm group of students. just bask in the sweet moment.... youth  from cali being so friendly to these out of towners. Ahhhhhhhhhh. get a good picture.

Well as life would have it, the passengers in the car continued to wave wildly and enthusastically to the "yutes" as the car makes it's way slowly down the street. However, there was a surprise at the end of this long line of california kiddos ..... right there before their very eyes .... the boys at the end of the row....  turned their backsides to the enthralled tourists dropped their pants and bared their bottoms.  

now that was a SUPER-MOON!!!

bahahahahahaa!!!  they got us all right! true.story!!