I have a salad for lunch today, but I decided a salad wouldn't be enough, so I walked down to a bakery that's about a block from the office.
Inside the bakery there was a big sign over the counter that said "Today's Breads" with a list of six kinds. I asked for a loaf of the first one listed, a nine-grain.
"We don't have that," said the clerk.
Okay...what do you have?"
She pointed above her to the sign.
"The sign says nine grain," I said.
"Oh, that's old," she answered, handing me a sheet of paper.
The list on the paper matches the sign, including the nine grain. Whatever. "Ok, can I get a loaf of the honey whole wheat?"
"We don't have that."
"That's on the list, too," I said, showing it to her. "What do you have?"
She started to read the list to me.
"Okay, then, do you have the country white?"
"Not for about two more hours," she said.
"Do you have any--" I started, whereupon she turned to the customer behind me and asked if she wanted a coffee refill.
Whereupon I left...never, as they say, to return. In a Monty Python skit, it's funny. When I'm hungry, it isn't.
Posted by Nic at November 22, 2004 12:23 PM