February 16 - “Fifty cents”

We decided to spend the night in Katy.  The visitation for the funeral was from 5-8 p.m., and the funeral itself started at 10 the next morning, so it made sense to get a hotel room.  Kind of a Valentine’s getaway, maybe?  Yeah, not so much.

We have one of those Great Scott moments when we went to Subway for supper.  We ordered our usual - 12 inch Subway melt on wheat, cut in half, make it a meal with chips and a drink.  Should be simple, right?  Cost of the sandwich, and as the sign clearly says, “Make it a meal.  Add $2.75.”  Their computer did fine on the cost of the sandwich.  But the “make it a meal” kind of threw it for a loop.  It added $3.25 instead.  I pointed out the discrepancy once we got our receipt.

Now ... I can understand some of what ensued.  The young girl waiting on us was obviously in her first day of training.  She had to look up ingredients for the sub, and she asked if I wanted it toasted (seems a silly question for a sandwich called a Subway MELT.  How else will you melt the cheese?), so I wasn’t too surprised when she had some trouble with the computer.  But I thought a simple point to the sign and back to the receipt should be plenty of evidence to get the overpricing overturned.  Silly me.  It took almost fifteen minutes for them to wade through the receipt (remember, we ordered one sandwich).  They just couldn’t seem to make sense of the problem.  They finally picked up the phone to call the manager to ask what to do when we made a suggestion.  “How about just giving me a chocolate chip cookie and we’ll call it even?”  They took me up on my compromise suggestion, but they continued poring over the situation.  They even said they were still going to call the manager and next time we come in they could make it better.  Chris rather dryly said, “Oh, we won’t be coming here again.”  But maybe the manager can make things clearer so the next guy won’t have the same struggle.  Ah, the trials of being a pioneer in the world of sign/receipt matching.  What a mind-boggling profession.  Sigh.

Psalms 37:5 says, “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this”

Father, be with that new young lady who was trying so hard.  Grant her peace and success in her new job.  Amen.