My Taco Bell Experience

I went to Taco Bell today, where the food is so inexpensive I'm forced to come up with mental techniques to avoid thinking about how it's even possible.

I ordered. I wanted some of their hot sauce, but the bins for the packets were empty. There were bins full of mild sauce, but there was no hot sauce.

I asked about the hot sauce and was told you have to ask for it. My first question wasn't enough... I then had to ask for it. As she gave it to me she further explained that "people kept taking too much of the hot sauce."

In an unexpected relaxation of my own personal code ("don't be a smart-ass," adopted in 1992), I said, "...so, you don't want to provide the sauce that most people want to have?"

A nearby do-gooder, who looked to me like Pastor Bob from Central Casting, offered a surprisingly righteous "People abuse their privileges...."

Whoa... WHA-? I was this close to saying "we are talking about hot sauce here, right?"



But I could tell I was outnumbered! I was in no position to explain how krazy it sounded to offer free packets of the unpopular sauce while making it difficult to get the free packets customers actually want.

Plus, a Taco Bell is not the place where I'm finally going to take a stand. Not that Taco Bell, anyway.

Think Logmically

Sauvie Trip

Chuck Boyce is visiting from South Carolina. He and brother Greg and I went out to Sauvie Island today, a lovely sunny day. We saw 48 species of birds. I didn't get good photos of birds, but here are a couple from today: