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My name is not Mike.
Mar. 22nd, 2006 01:12 pmI pondered posting this to bad service, but I'm not annoyed.
If I had been just a few minutes later I would have been.
Anyhow, the other night I didn't feel like cooking
but wanted something more"real food" than fast food.
So I had Jay call up chili's and place an order for me to go pick up.
It is considerably cheaper to do that than to actually go sitdown there.
No drinks, no tip, etc.
Anyhow.
He's at my computer and I'm laying on the bed while he's calling them,
of course we have the Chili's menu on the website open, heh.
He gets to the bit where they ask the name of the person picking up,
he says his name, and I said; "no, wait, I'm picking it up, give them my name."
I should have said nothing, I could have just said I was picking up order for his name,
no issue.
So he says "oh no wait, eris will be picking it up ... no, ERIS ... E R I S ... NO NO NO, E ... yes ... R ... yes ... I .. yes ... S ... that's right. ok, how long? 20 minutes? ok thanks, bye."
So I get there and there is a man standing paying for a bag of food at the take away counter, looking a little confused. While his credit card is processing the counter girl looks around him to me and asks how she can help me, I say I'm ERIS and I'm picking up a take away order.
She looks very confused, looks through all the orders, and says
"Are you sure it's not MIKE, we've got five Mikes."
The guy waiting blinks and says "I'm Mike, you didn't tell me there was more than one Mike! My wife ordered so I'm not sure exactly what the order was, and now you're telling me there's several Mikes?"
The (very flustered) counter girl starts babbling apologies and asks me what I ordered, I tell her, and Mike laughs and says "That's exactly what's in my bag."
He was annoyed but polite about it, while she sorted it out, credited back his charge for my food and found his correct order we made little jokey snide comments to each other. I said "good thing I wasn't a few minutes later" he said "yeah, wife woulda killed me if I'd come home with the wrong food ... yours was cheaper than mine though."
The silliness of this all is that I just found the receipt,
below is the scan of the name bit, you see Jay's name scribbled out,
and an attempt to write my name.
EDARS? That's horrid but still not confusable with Mike.
If I had been just a few minutes later I would have been.
Anyhow, the other night I didn't feel like cooking
but wanted something more"real food" than fast food.
So I had Jay call up chili's and place an order for me to go pick up.
It is considerably cheaper to do that than to actually go sitdown there.
No drinks, no tip, etc.
Anyhow.
He's at my computer and I'm laying on the bed while he's calling them,
of course we have the Chili's menu on the website open, heh.
He gets to the bit where they ask the name of the person picking up,
he says his name, and I said; "no, wait, I'm picking it up, give them my name."
I should have said nothing, I could have just said I was picking up order for his name,
no issue.
So he says "oh no wait, eris will be picking it up ... no, ERIS ... E R I S ... NO NO NO, E ... yes ... R ... yes ... I .. yes ... S ... that's right. ok, how long? 20 minutes? ok thanks, bye."
So I get there and there is a man standing paying for a bag of food at the take away counter, looking a little confused. While his credit card is processing the counter girl looks around him to me and asks how she can help me, I say I'm ERIS and I'm picking up a take away order.
She looks very confused, looks through all the orders, and says
"Are you sure it's not MIKE, we've got five Mikes."
The guy waiting blinks and says "I'm Mike, you didn't tell me there was more than one Mike! My wife ordered so I'm not sure exactly what the order was, and now you're telling me there's several Mikes?"
The (very flustered) counter girl starts babbling apologies and asks me what I ordered, I tell her, and Mike laughs and says "That's exactly what's in my bag."
He was annoyed but polite about it, while she sorted it out, credited back his charge for my food and found his correct order we made little jokey snide comments to each other. I said "good thing I wasn't a few minutes later" he said "yeah, wife woulda killed me if I'd come home with the wrong food ... yours was cheaper than mine though."
The silliness of this all is that I just found the receipt,
below is the scan of the name bit, you see Jay's name scribbled out,
and an attempt to write my name.
EDARS? That's horrid but still not confusable with Mike.
