Today With Patty – June 11, 2007

by Patty

I have been playing hooky the last couple of days, and I wish I could say it was for something exciting, like being at the beach or hang gliding. But noooooo – I drove to South Carolina to take my mother and aunt to see my 91-year-old uncle. We actually had a great time. It was a good weekend, albeit rather boring. I did manage to get a nap and solve a bunch of sudoku puzzles.

We stopped for Kentucky Fried Chicken on the way down, and it was the absolutely worst KFC I have ever seen. First off, this was at Exit 98 (or Exit 164, I do not remember). Anyway, we drive into town and wait in line for a good 20 minutes to get to the window. When I finally got there, I asked what the holdup was. She said it was the person in front wanted macaroni and cheese, and they had to make it. Like it never occurred to anybody there that they could have asked the person to move up out of the line and serve other people while they waited.

So we ordered our bucket of chicken – a 10-piece bucket – and they only gave us nine pieces. But I am too smart to get back into the car line, so I went inside. Of course I had to wait because the employees were having a fine gabfest. I finally got my piece of chicken and went back to the car when I realized I had no napkins, salt and pepper or sporks. So in I went again. Do they keep this on the counter so you can get to them? Of course not. So I waited in line – again – and asked the gentleman for the utensils, and he proceeded to argue with me that they always give out napkins, salt and pepper or sporks, and that they could not have possibly forgotten them. This coming from the same group who cannot count 10 pieces of chicken. I finally convinced him that I was not trying to double dip and kill KFC’s profits. The Colonel must be spinning in his grave as I write this.

Auntie Viv is at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, and she goes home soon, and my mother leaves tomorrow at the ungodly hour of 6:45 a.m. Do you know what time I have to get up? Do the math.

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