Nov 16, 2007

Time and time again

I ordered a turkey avocado wrap for dinner today.

Since I don't like waiting for takeout food, I called ahead so it would be ready when I got there. When placed the order the guy on the phone said, "okay, I'll see you in 5 minutes."

Five minutes? What, did he think I was calling from the parking lot? I've waited longer than that in the drive-thru at Burger King! Not to mention the fact that it takes quite a bit longer than 5 minutes to traverse the distance between my house and the sandwich shop.

I thanked the sandwich guy for his diligence, but admitted that I wouldn't actually BE there in 5 minutes. To which he responded, "more like 8 to 10 minutes then?"

Uh yeah, sure. Whatever.

It took me a full 15 minutes to get to the sandwich shop, and when I got there they hadn't even started making my wrap. I can only assume this is some sort of cosmic backlash for not setting all my clocks back.

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