All I wanted was a milkshake, just one milkshake
Posted on June 26, 2003
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…and they wouldn’t give it to me.
I’m at Swiss Chalet for breakfast today (it was 1:30 in the afternoon after all) and I decided that a vanilla milkshake would be the perfect beverage of choice for the afternoon. Looking at the menu I notice that Swiss Chalet doesn’t list milkshakes on their menu save for some sweet concoction made of bananas, vanilla ice cream and chocolate sprinkles. Perusing the pages further I notice that Swiss Chalet also serves sundaes, specifically sundaes made with vanilla ice cream.
“Well”, think I, “surely the omission of milkshakes on the menu must be in error, or perhaps the lowly milkshake is just so ubiquitous as to warrant no mention. I shall order my vanilla milkshake.”
I order one vanilla milkshake.
A few minutes later the server returns to inform me that they do not, indeed cannot, serve a vanilla milkshake. They don’t have them. But perhaps, just perhaps, I might like the vanilla-banana-chocolate concoction instead?
I look at her. I stare. I think to myself: “huh?” I marvel at the logic. I politely decline. I had entertained the idea of ordering the banana-vanilla-chocolate concoction sans banana and chocolate. I’d entertained the idea of ordering one vanilla sundae, no cherry, in a glass, well-blended. In the end I decided I just didn’t wasn’t up for the inevitable confusion I would undoubtedly have caused.
I don’t blame the server. I have no doubt that had she been able to she would have been more than happy to server me one vanilla milkshake. No, I blame the cash register. I’m certain this occurred quite simply because the cash register lacks one little touchpad button, labelled “mlkshk-van”.
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