Most of them were things I'd thought of before--I try to be very pleasant in the drive-thru--but the last one surprised me:
6. This is a personal preference, but if you're going to thank your order taker while at the speaker, say "thanks" rather than "thank you." Over the speaker, "thank you" sounds like "fuck you."I would never have guessed this. I say "thank you" in a very cheery voice. I could see someone mistaking the way Sean says "thank you", because he kind of does it in a cursory way, but hopefully my way is safe.
It's also possible that this is a dialectal thing that happens where TG lives and not here. But I don't know where TG lives, and I've never been on the receiving end of a drive-thru speaker, so I can't argue that one way or the other.
(The Chick-fil-A people seem to understand me--they almost always respond with "My pleasure." It's actually become a game with me to see if they say it or not. Yes, I need to get a life.)
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"My pleasure" is actually a mandate at Chick-fil-a. If they don't say it, they can lose their jobs.
Ha! Well, I didn't know they could lose their jobs, but I thought it was pretty obvious they were trained to say it.
By the way, I gave someone I know your email address for a web project that you may or may not want, and I also gave someone else your phone number for wedding photography...hope you don't mind. You can always say no, right? ^^;;;
Wow. I've never once even considered that "Thank you" could sound like "f*ck you." I'm glad my brain doesn't work that way. If I want to say "f*ck you" that's how it comes out, no doubt about it. But I see that the issue here is having the hear whatEVER might be spoken through the speaker-microphone-talk-back-and-forth thingie, so I can imagine all SORTS of things get all jumbled up through that thing. I can totally understand wanting to hear "thanks" then, so you know you don't have to second guess what you've heard when you've ended up having an irate booby-head come through your drive thru.
I miss me some Chik-Fil-A. Just sling some mac and cheese in a mailer, and stick a stamp on that sucker. I'll pay you back.
/drool
They have mac and cheese at Chick-fil-A? o_o
OH DEAR GOD!! I'VE BEEN GONE SO LONG, I'M GETTING MY WIFE SAVER AND MY CHIK-FIL-A CONFUSED!!
This just isn't RIGHT!!
I'm a baaaaaadd Southerner... :(
I needs some REAL mac and cheese. :(
Hahah, I've been jonesing for "southern food" so hardcore, I got all the "fixin's" yesterday for making TWO eggplant casseroles. ;) Two, because we're giving one to some friends of ours, who always have us over for dinner. That way, we'll have one, too.. ;) Bwaaaahahahah!!
Tried the chess cake yet?
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