Three Dollars
Quickest customer of the day in Mishka’s:
She: I’m gonna get a latte.
I: Certainly, what size?
She: A $3 one.
I: OK.
I ring her order into the cash register and look at her expectantly.
She: How much is that?
Online presence of a no-longer-part-time Englishman and serial film maker.
February 20th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
I blame McDonalds. A quarter pounder never cost 25p.
R xxx
(too early for a decent sense of humour!)
February 22nd, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Could it be that she was thinking of added sales tax?
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Well, maybe, but she was getting it to take away, hence tax was not applicable.
February 23rd, 2006 at 2:01 am
Don’t you display two prices? One for consuming on the premises and one for dragging your carcass elsewhere to enjoy your purchase? Or are you one of those cruel places that take pleasure from causing embarrassment to customers (like me) who don’t carry much change on them??
February 23rd, 2006 at 6:45 am
It’s fairly standard for coffee shops to charge tax for stuff consumed on the premises, and to omit the tax for stuff “to go.” As far as I’m aware fish and chip shops do the same thing – at least the one in Upton did. She was getting her coffee to go, and so would not have paid tax, and she should have known this. She just spaced out.
You know that look you sometimes see on people’s faces when there’s a half-smile and the eyes are focused on something that’s not in the room? That’s the look she was wearing at the time. I’m amazed at how many people leave their brains on snooze for the majority of their day.
February 23rd, 2006 at 8:19 am
Ahh, the “concussed grandma” look.
February 24th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Talking of Upton, I went to see a gig there the other day and I was delighted to see that the chippy is still run by supermodels!
February 24th, 2006 at 9:45 am
Mmm. I remember those hot little minxes as though it were yesterday. Sometimes at night I hear their plaintive call.
“Salt and vinegaarrr?”