So am I fricking invisible? It was teatime probably about half an hour before closing. I stood quite a time in a queue of one waiting to be acknowledged while the young girl behind the counter wiped the countertop and then the trays.
Then she moved trays around and generally tidied. I knew darn well she saw me and I can guarantee I'm pretty hard to miss. I was a tad annoyed at waiting when there wasn't any customers at the counter and I began to think I'll give her ten seconds then I'll make my presence felt. I didn't get to five and I was invited to the counter.
So I produced my little discount booklet that offered me beef and chicken burgers, fries, chicken nuggets and I pointed at the 99 cent coffee deal.
Yes, I thought, 99 cents us as much as I'm prepared to give you. So I made no attempt at extricating the coupon from the middle of the paper accordion sheet of coupons. I left it to her as she was so keen to tidy and fidget.
So this is another reason to fidget. As she fidgeted another girl came out from the cooking area to ask if I was being served; I thought, where were you five minutes ago?
So I said coffee please and she began the button pushing process while the first server struggled with those little perforations, and no we aren't talking tea bags but those wee tiny perforations that divided the dozen or so mini coupons, so she could detach the coffee coupon.
The coffee machine may have been sophisticated and it had a number of shiny silver buttons. Sophisticated or not it belched and hissed out probably the worst coffee I've had the displeasure to taste in a long time. At least it was hot. The portion was decent so the experience wasn't completely terrible. read more