Blog Number 178

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

There are 2 large revolving doors at the entrance of my building.  Though there are no directions indicating if you should go through clockwise or counter-clockwise, I have only seen people go through counter-clockwise.  That is, until today.  As I arrived at work this morning there was a lady holding a large balloon and she went through clockwise.  Though I cannot know for sure, it looked a lot harder to push "against the flow."

Fast forward to lunch time.  I have expanded my lunch options by ordering a "made to order" deli sandwich 3 times this week.  The price on the overhead sign simply says "Made to Order Deli Sandwiches: $3.59."  There are prices for side items (chips, etc.) but it appears that all sandwiches are the same price.  The sandwich I bought on Tuesday was $3.59 and the sandwich I bought on Thursday was $3.59.  I asked for the exact same sandwich today as I did on Thursday.  There was a sample sandwich made up along with a sign indicating what was on the sandwich (chicken breast, spinach leaves, some sort of spicy cream cheese spread, all on ciabatta bread).  The sign repeated the price, namely $3.59.

Everything was going well until I came to the checkout line.  Now I have blogged before about a certain cashier who makes me open my pizza box to prove to her that I am not getting a different kind of pizza than I claimed to have had in the box.  This cashier also refused to charge me the correct price for breakfast one day when she claimed that she had to weigh the breakfast when the servers were out of the sheets of paper that indicated what special I had ordered.  I have avoided this cashier for the last few months.  Today when I got to the check out lines, there were only 2 cashiers, a nice lady and the pizza box / breakfast weigher Nazi woman.  The nice lady had 3 people in line, the Nazi woman none.  I tried to avoid eye contact and get in the line for the other cashier but she said (in a loud voice), "Sir, I can help you down here."  I sighed and lowered my shoulders and walked over to her register.

She then proceeded to charge me more than $3.59 for my sandwich.  I asked her why and she indicated that specialty bread was 40 cents more.  I pleaded my case with her, mentioning that this exact same sandwich was $3.59 yesterday and that there was a sign specifically stating that this sandwich was $3.59.  This was not enough for her and in the end I gave up.  I was on the verge of finding a representative of the company that runs the cafeteria and registering a complaint.  In the end though, I thought it not worth the trouble.  In the future, I will just scout out the check out lines a little more in advance before heading over to pay for my food.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon