It was 50 cent corn dog day at SONIC, so I buzzed in to grab a few. It being past lunchtime, I ate one pancake coated weiner there in the drive-in stall, ready to take the others home for my husband's later enjoyment (he'll eat anything). I also bought a pretzel twist for $1.99 +tax that came with non-cheese sauce. On further thought--and to top-off the greasy corn dog and pretzel twist now slithering through my gut like an angry slug--I fell victim to the four-color picture of ice cream heaven covering the complete backside of the lighted menu board. Something called a SONIC BLIZZARD caught my eye: soft serve vanilla icecream with crumbled candy pieces swirled throughout. It looked amazing, chocked full of the candy of your choice. I chose BUTTERFINGER, briefly hesitated at the steep price ($3.49 for a mini size treat!!), but knew it would be worth it in the end, then called-in my order over the intercom.
When it was delivered, I blinked at the kiddie-sized cup. Okay. So it was about 8 oz. I knew it was a "mini", but where was the foaming top of candy pieces that covered the top of the advertisement cup in the picture? There was a litter of orange and brown dust gathered at the rim, but no chocolaty, peanut buttery chunks. Surely, it was just underneath. I mixed the ice cream around. Nope, no candy. The greasy slug in my gut growled. What the h@ll!? $3.49 for this? I don't think so.
I pressed the red call button and a voice said, "may I help you? " I said in a sweet voice, "this is a weird request, but I ordered a butterfinger blast and there is vertually no butterfinger in it. Can I please, have a bit more candy? " (pause.....) I continued, defensively, "there's hardly any in the cup, and I paid three fifty!" "Yes ma'am, there is only one scoop in a mini." Scoop? Surely they meant "thimble." Feeling stupid about arguing about 'candy' and 'scoops' I replied, "thank you, I'll remember that in the future," (code for it will be a cold day in hades before I pay $3.50 for 8oz of lousy soft serve and hardly more than one pulverized snack! Size! BUTTERFINGER! on top!!)
About then, a grinning girl brought me a tiny gravy container with a smidgeon of candy dust tossed inside. I showed her the ice cream cup with a 'see- I'm- not- crazy' look, and assured her I wasn't angry at her. She again mumbled something about scoops and ounces while backing away from my car window. I felt extremely evolved not to have tossed the tiny cup out the window, howling about false advertisement as I pulled out of the restaurant.
See, what they don't understand is that, indeed, the customer always IS right (and I deal with that fickle beast daily at work) Whether it went by their screwy measurement doctrine, or not, it wouldn't have hurt them to make this customer happy with a nickles' worth of candy for her tiny ice cream cup. They missed that chance having to be 'right' instead. ...
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