So.... I was out running an errand tonight and as luck would have it I ended up having to go to the same gas station where the silly gas pump authorization nazi works......She wasn't there! What a relief! She was probably at home removing her sleeping husband's feet with a rusty chainsaw.... But anyway... I KNEW something was amiss when I walked in the door and there was a long line at one counter and a wildly gesticulating older man at the ice cream counter.... I gulped and took my place in line... then my attention was quickly diverted to the action at the ice cream counter, where this man was dressing down the hapless young ice cream scooping college student for apparently giving the guy the wrong ice cream... I mean you would think the poor kid had run over this guys dog! He went on and on about how he couldn't have THAT kind of ice cream because it had NUTS or something in it.... The employee stood there while the man went on and on..... finally, the young man had enough of this after a minute or two.... He tossed the old cone in the trash and rammed the scooper into the preferred ice cream to satisfy the cranky nut intolerant redneck.... and when he saw the simple and shallow satisfaction the guy had from such a simple little act, he proceeded to add another scoop, "on the house", ya know... so, the ice cream cranky man nods about the free scoop and asks the poor kid for ANOTHER free scoop! I gave a crooked smile at this point because I felt the other people in line were thinking.. "What an ass!" but I was thinking..... "Come on, keep it up, you nitwit... Cuz you're going on the blog!!"
The kid rams the scooper in again and packs it onto the cone... then the scary dairy man is urging him to keep adding by way of whispers and nods of his head... so the highly irritated ice cream scooping college student just goes nuts and keeps ramming, scooping and plopping the ice cream onto the dummy's cone, which is starting to remind me of the leaning tower of Pisa at this point! It was unbelievable! I kept my eyes on the top of the gravity defying stack of creamy white scoops as the kid finally crammed the last and SIXTH scoop down on the cone! WOWSERS!!
... so the man hands the guy a bill of undetermined value and thanks him, and walks out as the line of people I was standing with silently wished him good riddance and a major case of explosive "I've had too much dairy!!!!" diarrhea at 3AM, when he finished his extorted delight....
I gotta hand it to the young man, he did good, even at the expense of the silly gas station that hates me.. I know the man might have been allergic to nuts... but to take such advantage of a college kid who was nervous about possibly making someone sick by accident is pretty lame..
But, it worked for him!
so...
Tomorrow, I am gonna strut in there and tell that silly woman who works the gas pumps that she has authorized the WRONG gas and I want a free tank-full right then!
... "and toss in some Poppycock while your at it, too!"
