A & W anecdote

Printer friendlySo, I have not posted an anecdote for a while. Here is a short one, though I'll drag it out as much as possible. Long version: After work today I was very, very hungry. The type of hunger where your blood sugar dips dangerously low and you would make supper but you worry that you might faint while opening the oven door and so on... Having been a long time since having (the only fast food place I actually enjoy) A & W, I decided that that was the quick fix I could heartily endorse today. As I turned into the 8th St locale, I noticed the women ahead of me who was mid twenties to mid thirties. She was plain in appearance and had a baby seat in the back but no visible baby. While in this queue I opened the bag of snap peas that I had bought - yes I had bought groceries, but as mentioned previously could not risk falling into the stove - and thought how tasty they were, and healthy. The next thing I notice is the lady ahead of me starts huffing on a cigarette. I believe she coughed a bit too. Just then, a second lady, this one twenty to thirty years old, a little prettier and with a red car pulls behind me. Quickly glancing in the mirror, I notice she grabs something to place in her mouth - "Could it too be a tasty, healthy treat?" I mused. Nope! A cigarette. I start thinking, hmm...cigarettes...fast food...no connection. Around the corner of the dub, a teenage boy - very heavy, some might say he has taken on 'whopper-like' form (for the nerdburglers out there - yes i realize that is a Burger King term), had a bag of food and went to his car. I thought 'jeez kid, I love a good mozza burger too - who wouldn't? they're delicious! But you got to draw a line somewhere' and then noticed that he had a "whopper family" t-shirt. Clearly he was no stranger to fast food. Paying for and getting my food, I turned left out of the lot and back towards the 8th St lights. In my right lane is the girl in the red car. I noticed it was a Chevrolet Malibu - at this I wondered 'Do girls in red malibus think that they are Malibu Stacey?' thank you simpsons. But then I also thought 'How could her order get done so quickly?' and figured she tried to order some cigs at the drive through. As a last note, I should say that there was an interesting sign saying 'We are not serving tomatoes. Due to the US salmonella scare...blah blah'. "Really A&W!! You are that cheap on your $6 burgers that you will not go down to Safeway and buy some non supplier tomatoes?" I think I should of asked for a fifty cent refund, but hindsight pretends to be twenty-twenty. -------- Short version: there are positive correlations between fast food and unhealthy living