I'm gonna show EVERYBODY

So I was working yesterday and got a phone call...of course they asked for a manager.

You have to understand, almost all of my friends either work or have worked in this biz...my friend Jennifer manages another restaurant in town and I think prank calling her is almost as funny as tripping a toddler. I have gotten her on a number of occasions!!!

I THOUGHT THIS WAS HER REVENGE...

A lady with a sweet Southern twang was on the other end of the phone. She told me that last night she had ordered some chicken strips and she got them home and could not eat them She said that they were too hard. So I automatically knew that she got the new kind with a crunchier batter.

I apologized and told her that there must have been a misunderstanding, because she got the new kind. She replied, "There wasn't a misunderstanding...Lonny knew what I was talking about." This was funny bc she actually called our togo guy by the wrong...but similar name. I have used this avenue before and I thought that Jennifer was jackin my style...

So I again apologized...this is where people build credibility...(I studied communication in school...maybe she did too)...she told me that she had been coming her since we had opened in 1991. When she told me that she started sounding older. I started believing that it may not be Jennifer.

Then she said, "I don't have any teeth...and I can't eat these." When she said it she had that old person vibrato going on that sort of sounded like she was 1/2 way crying...and I KNEW it wasn't Jennifer. I can't pull off saying throwed stuff, but Jennifer would have laughed at that point.

So I started trying to figure out how I could make this lady happy. I offered her another plate. She kept telling me randomly that she was going to bring it up there for EVERYONE to see...

really...you are hording this food...sicko...old people do the strangest things...

I kept telling her that it was not necessary to bring the food back, but she wanted EVERYONE to see it. I kept insisting that we would remake her food...

suddenly she was ready to get off the phone. She told me she couldn't talk to me much longer about this. that she was going to bring the food back...but I wanted to confirm a food order to have it ready for her.

She then said...Im running out of minutes on my phone...ill call you back...BYE

I got off the phone in disbelief...

When Charles got to work that afternoon I told him about the strange call. He said that he dealt with that last night already. That he had bought her a meal last night. I asked him if the lady was sort of crazy...

he said, "I think she is all the way crazy...it was her caretaker that came and got the food & came back to get the other meal."

and it all made sense...maybe she rushed me off the phone bc her nurse was coming...either way...I found humor in it...

AND Im telling EVERYBODY!!!