Not so fast food

I was too lazy and busy to make myself dinner last night so I stopped at Harvey's on the way home. I go there because I like their veggie burgers. Last night I decided to try a salmon burger too.

I ordered and had to wait five minutes at least before I moved ahead a car length. They were so slow. Then it took another couple of minutes for the car in front of me to get served. When I finally pulled up, the girl at the window promptly took my money before telling me that "The salmon takes a long time to cook. Would you mind pulling ahead and I'll bring it out to you when it's done?"

By that time I paid and I had little choice. So I pulled ahead and it took about seven or eight minutes for this girl to finally bring my food out. "Sorry" she said as she passed me the bag. I asked why the salmon took so long to cook. "Oh, yah, it takes like four minutes to cook the salmon" she told me.

I couldn't resist pointing out the obvious. First I told her I had place my order fifteen minutes ago and wondered why it took so long to start cooking it. Second, I told her I know how to cook and everyone knows that fish cooks faster than anything else. She looked a bit stunned. Then I told her that in the future, if she is going to lie, she should make it a good one.

I felt a bit bad for her because she said sorry again and gave me two coupons for free sirloin burgers. She was nice enough. Just a bit naive. I didn't even bother to tell her I almost never eat red meat.