Second Hand Confrontations
10/27/98

I work at a Dunkin Donuts. The location must be keep a secret in order to protection the innocent and the identity of those involved.

LINE ETHOS

As I serve over a hundred customers a day, I have noticed some strange things. First off, do people understand the concept of a line? Many people learn this when they first enter school, in kindergarten. The teacher makes you line up to go places. Line up to go the lunchroom, the playground, the library. Does this mean I live in an area where everyone failed out of kindergarten?

There are three cash registers, but there is one line. Most people have the general idea but there is at least one moron everyday that decides that there is no one at one register, so they will step right up. Meanwhile there is a line going out the door. Just to further explain, the person is usually mid 20's, (male and female). Not some old person who has trouble remembering things. We have though of putting ropes in, just like at the bank. Step up to the next AVAILABLE register.
There can be a toaster sparking and flaming across the store, and there is some guy yelling at me, "WAIT! LARGE BLACK TWO SUGARS!" Either that or I'm mopping the floor and they are asking me to serve them. All because they are in a RUSH. What makes them think that cause they are in a rush, make them think that they are special? I mean, When I go to their job and I'm in a rush, I don't get to jump the line in the bank or the post office, I don't get the good tables at restaurants, so why should they jump the line in Dunkin Donuts? Are they saying that the establishment that I work in is less important than theirs? In that case, I banish them from the store!

THE STUFF DREAMS IS MADE OF

What Dunkin Donuts should be like. There should be naked chicks on the coffee cups. There should be topless table dancers and waitresses and live bands playing as loud as they can. Contests of who can put the most donuts down in one sitting. A new pinup donut girl calendar w/coupons. It would be just like Hooters except more kid oriented. It would be like were dads take their males sons when they hit puberty. The kids sit with their dads, eat donuts, learn how to drink coffee, and meet naked chicks. Either that, or dads celebrate here when they finally get visitation rights with their lawyers and buddies from the bar, bowling alley and work. 1