Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Having it my way (Revised)

Pulling into the narrow parking lot of a burger king, I was suddenly blinded by fluorescent blue headlights trying to withdraw from the confined parking lot. Behind the lights were three other cars also trying to exit but with such a small parking lot it was difficult to even get out. As i was walking towards the entrance of the restaurant i could smell the distant aroma of BK's signature crunchy french fries before i even went in. I always order the same thing so today i wanted to try something new. While waiting to the side pondering on what i wanted, i couldn't help but notice the 2 workers in the back passing each other the condiments, patties, sauce...etc. Its as if the worker would just slap the patties on to the burgers like they were a solid piece.
I didn't want to slow down the line behind me so i proceeded down to the cash register where i faced an employee who must have had a bad day. Still indecisive, i got the same thing as usual which was a BK triple stacker meal with a medium cup. Routinely, I go to the ketchup dispenser and exaggerate on the amount of ketchup i get. The dispenser was somewhat empty and it squirted out like how a child spits to entertain him/herself. I was frustrated at the fact that i had dirtied a t-shirt i had washed the day before but i hoped the bk stacker would change that.
I had forgotten to get my soda at the fountain so i left my meal on the table and went to get coke. Each and every time i get a fountain drink i always look at the rim of the water pressure and ask myself, is why does it look white when a coke is clearly black? After a few seconds i stop caring and bite down on the straw to drink. The soda had a very unpleasant taste of flat-diet soda. After another disappointment, i turned to the burger for relief, unwrapped it from its easy to rip wrapper and began to devour.
Bite after bite, drops of ketchup would fall on the wrapper making a "plop" sound each time. With each time it fell, i would use the edge of the burger to scoop it back up. After having enjoyed what i thought was the greatest burger in the world, I still had the fries which i had not eaten yet. I grabbed a bunch of fries and ate them simultaneously. After biting down on them i felt and immediate sting from the heat of the fries thus causing me to be angry once again.

3 comments:

  1. exceptinaly discriptive post. it was like i was there lol... almost made me hungry. if i wasn't on a strike against the fast food ..i would have gotten my self a number 4 or 5....

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  2. Thanks a lot man, i was very hungry that day but so was many other people that day. Im very curious on the strike that youre talking about? can you provide me with more detail on that. Thanks.

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  3. personal strike ..agaisnt fast food.. i choose not to eat any fast food ..any more...but than again everything is pretty much processed

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