Ok…so I am in a little bit of a mood today.   Let me give you a little rundown of my day, as that may help explain my issue here.

I get up at 5:30 AM.  I turn on the FOX 25 Morning News and lay in bed for a few minutes watching all of the fun that they have, and even imagining one day that I want to sit between the beautiful Kim, Q and Cindy and anchor the news and then follow it up with a trip to Hampton Beach where we all just lay in the sun, sharing funny little stories about our lives while we eat Popeye’s Chicken and drink Diet Cokes and have a splendid afternoon together getting our (well, I don’t tan, so really their) tans on.  And of course we would be joined by Maria and all of the other smokin’ reporters from FOX 25.  What a great time that would be!  SMACK!  Oh…reality just hit me in the face…NOT GONNA HAPPEN BIG GUY!  Oh well, back to my point.

So I get up, shower and hit the road for my 1:30-1:45 hour commute to “work”.  When I get here, I am in meetings for things I have no idea about (but just smile and act like I do), take a few calls from my friends, play the new slot machine game on 937MikeFM.com (if you haven’t wasted time at work playing this yet, get going already!  I killed 2 hours playing it today!!) and then get ready for my 1st & only meal of the day….LUNCH!

Now here at the place we call home to MIKE-FM, we have a nice little cafeteria.  It has everything from a Grille Station where you can get Burgers, Grilled Chicken, Fries etc, an Entree section that has 2 real meals like Thanksgiving Turkey (my favorite) a Sandwich Bar, Salad Bar, Pizza Station and a rotating section that has Sushi (gross), Special Salads and Omelets.  As you can see, there is a lot of variety.  But for those of you who know me, I could care less about variety.  I hate almost everything and only really like chicken, turkey and fried anything (except for fish or any vegetable).

But let me ask you this.  Have you ever ordered something and felt like you got short changed?  Like, it seems lately I go and order like a chicken sandwich and fries, and I get the sandwich ok, but the “side” of fries is more like a “sample”.  The other day I had like 7 fries and the lady was acting like she may have put too many on my plate.  Is she getting profit sharing or something?  Did my Doctor send her a note telling her I need to lose a few pounds and drop my Cholesterol 100 points?I paid $1.75 for the “side” and the true cost was probably $.02!  I gave her this look like, “ummmm keep putting fries on my plate until they fall off”, but I think the message got lost in mental translation as the plate was handed to me with the same 7 fries on it.

Then there is the Sandwich guy.  I must say…no complaints there!  I intentionally wait for him to make my sandwich.  I get plain turkey on a plain roll.  I hate everything else that you normal people put on your sandwiches and am really happy with it plain.  But it freaks me out when they cut the sandwich.  If the person in front of me had one of those “just put everything on mine” sandwiches and when the guy cuts it with a knife, I get all freaked out if I see mustard, mayo and tomato drippings on the knife.  I pray to god that he wipes it before he cuts my sandwich!  Usually he demonstates his professional sandwich making skills and wipes the knife.

But, the cool thing is the guy just doesn’t take the pre-measured & weighed portion that wouldn’t even fill up a 2 year old…he realizes that I am not getting anything else on my sandwich and puts maybe an extra slice or 2 in to make me feel like I didn’t order a kids meal but pay the adult price for it!  He….is a good guy!  He appears to care about my lunch happiness and I appreciate that.  There is another worker down there who I like…he realizes I am a complex Big Guy and have had to work very hard to get where I am today (in a lunch eating sense) and always makes my odd requests happen.  Overall, the place is good once you get past Ms. Dainty Serving.

But, I also notice when I go to a certain fast food place and get my kids a…..well…I better just call it a “kids meal” (so all the sales reps here don’t come hunting me down for exposing this big scandalous issue), that if I ask for more than 1 packet of sauce they act like we are on a sweet & sour drought and how dare I ask.  Of course, they are happy to let me have as many as I want for like $.25 each.  But, at least I can go in the store and use up 1,543,321 ketchup packets for free if I want.  These 16 and 17 year old employee’s probably give their friends free food and don’t do their homework at night, but if someone asks for an extra sauce, they turn into Sam Walton and nickel and dime me.  It’s like they get a commission for every extra sauce packet they sell. 

Anyway….I just wish people wouldn’t worry so much about the little things like fry proportion and just give them to me.  Don’t tell me how many sweet & sour sauces my kids should be using for their nuggets, just put it in their bag and know that you made them happy.  Be like the sandwich guy….just do the right thing!

Now…I am going to eat my ice cream sundae!  On Friday, that is the little treat we get.  Of course, the guy who made it was nice enough to ration me 2 cherries!  Yay!!