This "What in the world did you say to me" moment happened at a White Castle restaurant. It was a Friday morning, around 11:00 and I stopped in to buy lunch for my team at work. I was the only person in the restaurant at the time. I walk to the counter and here is the exchange:Me: "I will take 20 cheeseburgers, 20 hamburgers, 5 orders of onion petals, and 5 orders of fries."
White Castle counter guy: "Sure, will that be for here or to go?"
I didn't say anything, but thought to myself, "What in the world did you say to me?" It was probably more like, "Did you really just ask me that question?"
After a long pause, he responded, "Oh. I guess that would be to go."
I am sure the guy just gets used to saying "For here or to go", but it just stuck out as funny to me. I don't know that I have ever ordered that much food at once, and the one time I do, the guy seems to think I might be capable of eating all of it.
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Interesting. I've noticed people do similar things with signs--that is they see the sign, but fail to read it. My office is the first of 3 offices in a learning resource center. Students frequently stop by my office searching for the testing center which is next door. When I direct them next door, they frequently return asking when the office opens, even though a sign of the testing center hours is on the door. The hours are different, depending on the day so I indicate the hours are posted on the door. Students often return with "But the sign says they open at 9 and no one is there. My reply, today is Thursday, check the time for Thursday--see what I mean.
Your Grandfather was going to a church last week that had a group to do some special singing. The Church service started at 6 o'clock
but my Dad called to tell me the service didn't start until 7o'clock. He read the sign correctly he just was at the wrong church
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