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From the department of What Just Happened There?:
So I'm in Chipotle getting lunch. I'm vaguely aware of the woman behind me ordering in that first-timer way that involves loudly reassuring herself about her Chipotle decision making skills ("yeah, the vegetarian, yeah, that sounds good, I think I'll get that. For here.").
As we approach the cash register, she says excuse me to me and I scoot out of her way so that she can reach around behind the counter and grab her side of guacamole. A little weird, I think, but she's new to the place and stuff does go awry sometimes. BUT THEN, she also reaches for her bowl and then trots over to the condiment and soda area (something which requires navigating AROUND the cash register all the people in front of her in line are currently paying at).
She has not paid.
Register guy and I goggle at each other, continue/conclude our transaction and generally keep looking at her. What Should We Do?
I go to get my fork and napkins and the woman has now gone and sat at a table with her food, completely ignorant is seems to the notion that one pays for food.
Being a completely nosy asshole, I go up to her as I'm leaving and I say "generally we pay before we take the food here, they think you stole it."
"What?" she asks. "I don't understand."
"You need to pay. Upfront," I say, pointing.
She shrugged at me, and as I walked by the window once on the outside, I can tell you she was sitting there eating her guacamole and veggie bowl still blithely not paying.
Based on my brief interaction with her, I have no reason to believe there was an English-language difficulty or a confusion about custom (her speech was unaccented and examples of how to go through the line were directly in front of her), although I suppose it's possible. I also have no reason to believe she was someone in need trying to sneak a meal (she was dressed in high-end business attire with jewelry, had a pristine professional manicure, etc), but of course we all know stranger things have happened.
So what just happened there? Chipotle thievery? Epic personal cluelessness? Some weird dare? Narratively underdeveloped performance art? I am confused! And I hope someone actually did something to address the matter.
ETA: Google AdSense, I love you! Ads on this post include "meet gay military men." I hope my Torchwood people are falling all over themselves laughing.
So I'm in Chipotle getting lunch. I'm vaguely aware of the woman behind me ordering in that first-timer way that involves loudly reassuring herself about her Chipotle decision making skills ("yeah, the vegetarian, yeah, that sounds good, I think I'll get that. For here.").
As we approach the cash register, she says excuse me to me and I scoot out of her way so that she can reach around behind the counter and grab her side of guacamole. A little weird, I think, but she's new to the place and stuff does go awry sometimes. BUT THEN, she also reaches for her bowl and then trots over to the condiment and soda area (something which requires navigating AROUND the cash register all the people in front of her in line are currently paying at).
She has not paid.
Register guy and I goggle at each other, continue/conclude our transaction and generally keep looking at her. What Should We Do?
I go to get my fork and napkins and the woman has now gone and sat at a table with her food, completely ignorant is seems to the notion that one pays for food.
Being a completely nosy asshole, I go up to her as I'm leaving and I say "generally we pay before we take the food here, they think you stole it."
"What?" she asks. "I don't understand."
"You need to pay. Upfront," I say, pointing.
She shrugged at me, and as I walked by the window once on the outside, I can tell you she was sitting there eating her guacamole and veggie bowl still blithely not paying.
Based on my brief interaction with her, I have no reason to believe there was an English-language difficulty or a confusion about custom (her speech was unaccented and examples of how to go through the line were directly in front of her), although I suppose it's possible. I also have no reason to believe she was someone in need trying to sneak a meal (she was dressed in high-end business attire with jewelry, had a pristine professional manicure, etc), but of course we all know stranger things have happened.
So what just happened there? Chipotle thievery? Epic personal cluelessness? Some weird dare? Narratively underdeveloped performance art? I am confused! And I hope someone actually did something to address the matter.
ETA: Google AdSense, I love you! Ads on this post include "meet gay military men." I hope my Torchwood people are falling all over themselves laughing.
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