Fast Food Slip

It was roughly about a week ago today, I was hanging out with my girlfriend at home and we were watching Hell’s Kitchen. I was just laying there watching Gordon yell at his helpless chefs as they scramble to get food together. Looking over at Amaya I could easily tell she was getting hungry just like me from watching, a light bulb popped up in my head as I got an idea. I told Amaya to get her stuff on as we were going go get some Burger King. As we are leaving all I can think about is the warm tasty nuggets dipped in barbeque sauce and sweet and sour sauce.

On the drive to Burger King we were talking about the different fast food nuggets and which we think is the best. In my opinion Mcdonald’s has the best nuggets, but we decided we were continue with our plan and just get Burger king nuggets. The traffic that night was really slow and it took forever it felt like to get to Burger King, and when we got there the line was extremely long. I decided I was going to park and just go order food inside as I did not feel like waiting for that massive line. That was a big mistake as I had learned, there was at least a 10 person line inside the Burger King. While this entire time because my anxiety I am repeating my simple order in my brain that I want 20 nuggets. I kept on listening to people order while trying to tell myself what I want. My brain jumbled itself but it was too late to turn back, there were only two people left in front of me. As my turn came up I stupidly asked the Burger King employee “Can I get a 20 pc Mcnugget.” At that exact moment I knew I had messed up but I was hoping that the lady was just gonna let it go and realize I want 20 nuggets. Well my luck had run out because this lady refused to acknowledge anything I had just said and asked me “What do you want?” I felt so stupid and just quikcly retorted saying “you heard what I said before.” She looked at me like I had a room temperature IQ and my cheeks started to get blushed as I could feel the warmth of the blood in my face as I got embarrassed. All I did was ask wrongly for nuggets and I felt so stupid and below people. I wanted to just slouch down out of existence at that moment, but I realized I still needed to order as she was still waiting for me to say it properly. So I asked her for 20 nuggets, and this time because I didn’t say McNuggets, it was totally okay, I was absolutely terrified to ask her again for food even though it was the right way to say it this time. After that I stood over by where you wait to get your order, when my order came out the girl said “Here are your Mcnuggets.” I kind of felt offended considering she made air quotes with her fingers while saying Mcnuggets. Well it ain’t my fault Burger King nugs are just way worse than Mcdonalds Mcnuggets. After leaving it took forever again to get back home because of the amount of traffic on the road. I still was feeling really embarassed and even my girlfriend got a good laugh out of it, I knew asking dumb questions will do that to you but I hadn’t felt that embarassed in awhile. If I had not asked the question I mean I wouldn’t have gotten food, but if I just asked in the right way then I wouldn’t of felt completely embarrassed in front of several people. Probably would have prevented a very large amount of anxiety afterwards and that would have been nice.

At least I had my nuggets and I was going fill my stomach up. What confused me the most about the entire situation was how upset this girl seemed when I asked for their competitors food. She got red in the face and looked like she literally wanted to yell at me for simply saying McNuggets. Amaya and I were talking about how rude she acted when I just messed up slightly and our food had been put in upside down so it falls out in the bag. Honestly one of the worst service I have ever had when getting fast food and I do not plan on getting Burger king anytime soon, considering you wanna be sassy because I messed up your food name.

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