a girl at Mighty Taco thinks I am weird: a 5-year FLASHBACK blog!

(Originally posted May 30, 2008)

So I went to Mighty Taco to get some awesome lunch and there was this new girl at the counter waiting to take my order.  I asked for a steak fajita and she asked if I wanted sour cream on it.  I said "No, that's good," by which I meant "No, I don't want anything else."

I waited for my food and then sat down and took a bite and what did I find?  You guessed it, sour cream.  I checked my receipt and sure enough I had been charged 25 cents for sour cream.  I do not really hate sour cream or anything, I just usually don't think it's necessary on Mexican food.  Also I am not the sort of person that complains about mistakes like that.  If you are ordering fast food, you should know you're taking a gamble.  The workers there are not too smart and frequently ugly.  I personally don't complain in nice restaurants either because I want to be spoken of highly when the waitstaff are badmouthing everybody else in the kitchen.  I actually tip better if the waitress makes a mistake because I don't want her to feel bad.  She could spill a drink on my head and I would still draw a smiley face on the bill.

But anyway I still wanted to know how this taco cashier heard a "no" as a "yes."  Did she just hit a wrong button?  They probably have one for "sour cream" but not one for "no sour cream," don't you think?

Ultimately I decided that she must have misheard me.  I thought about exactly what I had said.  "No, that's good."  I said "No, that's good" and she hit the sour cream button, why would she do that?  The only explanation I could come up with was that when I said "no," she heard it as "oh," so in her mind the conversation went like...

Her: "Would you like sour cream?"

Me: "Oh, that's good."

...and she took that as a yes.  So now I am convinced that there is a girl working at Mighty Taco that thinks I say "Oh, that's good!" when someone offers me a food topping that I think is tasty.

I guess it would be kind of funny to do that all the time.

"Would you like some ketchup for your fries?"

"Oh that is delicious!"

Or at Olive Garden when they offer to grate the cheese onto your food I could say "Cheese is magnificent."

Most foods taste better when topped with something, there should be no shame in getting excited.


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