Small Order of Fries
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Random Thoughts
This really happened! I seem to remember reading something like this, or maybe hearing it as a comedy act some years back.... but this really happened to me, and it happened yesterday!

I pulled into the Arby's drive through for lunch and ordered a Chicken Salad sandwich and a small order of fries. Pretty standard stuff one would think, right? Apparently not based on the following conversation I had with the girl taking my order. I will admit beforehand I was in a cranky mood... and wouldn't have made a big deal about it most days.

Me: Hi, I'd like the Market Fresh Chicken Salad and a small order of fires.
Her: Sir, we don't have small fries. We have large, or regular size.

Me: Uh'm okay... if you have large, and one other size doesn't that make the regular a small by default?
Her: No, we just have regular and large.

Me: Is the regular smaller then the large?
Her: Yes.

Me: Then how is that not the same as a small?
Her: It's a regular size sir, not a small.

Me: Okay fine... give me the regular size fries.

(I then pull up to the window and honestly have no intention of continuing the discussion - she obviously has decided she wants the last word on the subject)

Her: Here you go sir. That's one Chicken Salad sandwich and a Medium order of fries.

Me: Medium? I thought it was regular?
Her: Medium is the same as regular sir.

Me: U'hm the word medium means between two other sizes right?
Her: Yes sir!

Me: So how can you have a medium if you don't have a small?
Her: Because it's bigger then a small sir.

Me: How can it be bigger then a small if you don't have a small? No small exists, so it can not be bigger?
Her: It's bigger then a small size fries would be if we had them.

Me: Maybe I'm missing something. Do you ever have small fries?
Her: No, just regular and large. But if we had small the regular would be medium sized.

Me: Well, since you only have too sizes and one is large, wouldn't it have been just as easy to charge me for the smaller size when I asked for a small.
Her: No sir. I had to make sure you knew that you would be charged for a regular size, not a small.

Me: But there are only two prices on the menu. I knew I was going to pay one of those two prices right?
Her: But you asked for a small and we don't have that.

Me: Okay... you win. Give me my regular fries and sandwich.... I give up.
Her: Thank you, please come again soon.