No sticks for me

I'm usually not one to complain about service workers. Let's face it, they're getting paid minimum wage to put up with assholes.

Well, I reached my tolerance level last night at the bowling alley. I know, what level of service should I expect from a bowling alley, snack bar associate? At the minimum ,,,my food. My greasy, deep fried, no good for you mozzarella sticks. That's all I wanted as we started our third game. I was feeling faint and needed food.

I should have known that the artery clogging mozzarella sticks were not in the stars for me. It was too good to be true. I was thrilled to see there was no one in line at the counter. Not one person.

There she was, sweeping the floor behind the counter, no sense of urgency, almost zen like. She looks up and slowly makes her way to the register. I, in my merry little voice, place my order of mozzarella sticks and a diet pepsi, to wash down those good for nothing mozzarella sticks.

I then leave to give her time to deep fry my dinner. I made my way back a few moments later and she's nowhere in sight. No biggie I say, I'll just come back after my next frame.

I eventually make my way back to the counter and nothing. She's still gone. I scan the counter for my stuff. I see nothing. I hang around a bit because I refuse to leave empty handed.

About 45 seconds later, snack bar girl saunters out of the restroom, again no sense of urgency. She makes her way to her post and just looks at me. Um, I'm thinking OK, did she forget I was mozzarella stick girl. I nicely tell her that I'm here to pick up my mozz sticks and soda. This was her reply, I kid you not, "I'm sorry, I forgot to put your order in." Um, I'm incredulous but I bite my tongue.

She then started rambling on with how they stuck her at the counter all by herself. She proceeded to tell me how she had to do everything,,,,I guess this entails the sweeping she was doing earlier.

I stress, there were no orders before mine. Nada. How could she ring up my order, take the cash then forget to process the order??!!! It boggles the mind. Needless to say, I remained calm and just asked for a refund.

What I really wanted to say was you're an idiot. You are now going to make my order, with a few extras sticks thrown in and I want a large soda at no extra charge.

To make matters even worse, we lost all three games. Not a good night. Well, Val bowled well and I bowled below my average all night.