Why do I care what you eat?!

Dear America,

Why do you keep asking me to pick your food? I am not going to eat it!

Love

Brian

In the last few weeks customers have been asking me to pick their food for them. They will come up to the counter and begin to order, it usually goes something like this.

Customer: I would like a breakfast sandwich and coffee.

Me: Which sandwich and what size coffee?

Customer: I don't know, you pick.

Me: The size of the coffee?

Customer: No the sandwich.

Now I do not know about you, but when I decide to go out to eat I know what I am going to eat. I usually have a general idea, and then when I get there I look at the menu and make a decision. I don't usually let the person who is behind the counter or the server decide what I am going to eat. I am paying so I should decide.

I have noticed with these customers, that once you put in their food order or once they pick it up, they have magically decided that they do not want what you have picked out for them. The decide that they do not like a sausage egg and cheese croissant, but that they wanted no meat or that they don't want the carbs, or that if they eat this food that you have chosen for them that they will turn into zombies and begin to eat my brains....which at this point in helping the customer I would almost like that better.

Once the customer has decided that they are not going to eat this wonderful breakfast that they have paid for, they decide that they are want something else. They do not want to pay for this new sandwich, they expect that it be made for them at no charge. I know that there is a magic cow out there and that he has a friend who is a magic pig, and together they make magic meat that is free and there for anyone to use. They live under the magic money tree.

Another favorite is when they are getting donuts. They ask for an assortment of donuts. The very nice man behind the counter asks them if they want to pick them out and they usually say that you can pick them out. The thing is that they are distracted. They are talking on the phone, or maybe they are tweeting about how cute the donut guy is behind the counter. Whatever the case, they are to busy to pick out their own donuts, but once they get the donuts, they decide that they want another donut or there are to many filled donuts etc etc etc.

So I guess what I am saying is, You really do not want me to pick out your food. For one reason, I am going to pick the most expensive thing on the menu, because I am ticked that you cannot take the time to pick out your own food, and I have a budget to meet. The other reason is, you never are happy with the food. If you are going to order food.... ORDER WHAT YOU WANT AND SAVE ME THE TIME AND THE ENERGY!