Blog Number 176

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I try to eat lunch as cheap as I can.  This is difficult to do in the cafeteria at work.  Don't get me wrong, the food is quite good but I just have this habit of keeping lunch under $5.  This really limits me to 2 choices: tacos or pizza (veggie's only).  I jump back and forth between the two choices.

When I go to the taco place (they also sell burritos and taco salad along with other choices), I usually get 2 tacos.  You can put whatever you want on them (beef or chicken, rice, beans, peppers, onions, lettuce, tomato, cheese, pico, guacamole, sour cream, etc.).  Since the tacos are only $1 each, you get a really good bargain.  The other day the lady in front of me was pointing to the things she wanted on her taco salad.  When she pointed at the peppers she said "green peppers."  Now in that container of peppers are not only green peppers but also red and yellow (and maybe some orange peppers too).  The guy behind the counter then asked her, "Do you want JUST the green peppers?"  She kind of laughed a little (noticing her mistake) and said, "No, any peppers will do."

Now, because I am who I am (and think the way I do), I had to ask, "Do some people actually ask for ONLY green peppers?"  The guy behind the counter gave out a little sigh and then nodded indicating that (indeed) there were people there that made him pick out ONLY the green peppers.

Incredible!  There are actually people that have the audacity to make these food service people pick through the pile of peppers for only the green ones.  I really could not stop thinking about this all the way back to my cubicle.  This happened last week and I am still thinking about it actually.  I hope I am never in line behind one of these people or I might have to say something.  Anyway if you are ever at my cafeteria, the tacos are a good deal (with or without the non-green peppers).

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon