Wednesday Story Day – AKA – Hump Day

~ John W. Howell

 

Photo of Lucy and Twiggy
“What are you doing Little One?”
“Thought I heard Friday over there.”
“Sounded like Wednesday to me.”

It is Wednesday Story Day again, and last week we found ourselves at the Chick-Fil-A and talking to the manager named Tony. Tony was a little intimidated and asked for some time to call his boss. Our gang gave him a business card (These were not ID but Vista Print $5.00 a thousand cards. Whew, I hope that clears that up). Our gang then took their coffees out to one of the tables to wait for Tony to come out. We should get over there in case Tony comes back quickly.

 

“You know what, Larry?”

“What, Andrew?”

“I often wonder why people line up at Chick-Fil-A.”

“I guess cause they like the chicken sandwiches.”

“But for breakfast?”

“They have other stuff like sausage, eggs, and hash browns.”

“How do you know?”

“I’ve had breakfast at a Chick-Fil-A.”

“Hey, fellas.”

“Yeah, Mike.”

“Got the judge working on a warrant now.”

“Excellent. Oh, look, here comes Tony. Well, Tony, what did you find out?”

“My boss said to cooperate with you guys. He called our lawyer, and as long as you do not think any of our employees committed a crime, we should try to help.”

“well, that’s nice of your boss and the lawyer. At this point, we do not suspect any of your employees of wrongdoing. We had a photo of a partial receipt from a pickup yesterday. Here it’s on my cell. Take it and have a look.”

“Uh-huh. Looks like it has been burned.”

“Good eye, Tony. It was burned, but these ashes still have a trace of it. Anything pop out at you?”

“There is a sequence number just below the date. Let me pull it up on my iPad. Humm. Yeah, that was a pickup order filled about 5:10 yesterday. Seven number three combos. Three sweet teas and three diet cokes and one lemonade.”

“Sounds like a big crowd. Let me ask, Tony. You guys have any surveillance cameras?”

“Sure do. Covers the drive-through from two angles. One is the window, and the second is the rear of the car. That’s was in case we had a grab and go.”

“Grab and go?”

“Before our new system, the customer would pay for the food when delivered. We used to have people take the food and then hit the gas. We now have a two-window system where we collect at the first window and fill the order from the second. We still have the camera working. There was a time when jokers would throw a drink at the server. Having the recording of the event and the license plate ensured that the police had enough to arrest the person.”

“Over a drink?”

“How about cuts and bruises. Those cups are not light.”

“Okay, I get it. So do you think you have the pick-up from yesterday on tape?”

“I’m sure we do. We have a 24-hour loop.”

“Can we get the tape?”

“I’m sure it won’t be a problem, but—”

“You’ll have to ask your boss.”

“Yes.”

“Go ahead and make the call. We’ll wait.”

“I won’t be a minute. I’ll just step over there.”

“Take all the time you need, Tony. We think the tapes will be the breakthrough we need.”

64 thoughts on “Wednesday Story Day – AKA – Hump Day”

  8. Thank goodness for Chick-Fil-A! As a frequenter of this establishment, I think they deserve to be the hero in this drama. Well done, John. 😊

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  11. Skippy has a link to the Chick-Fil-A policy manual on his iPad. And it includes and 800 number for anything not covered in the manual. Unfortunately the number is busy. Skippy’s expected wait time is 24 minutes. Please stay on the line… ( cue wait music ).

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  12. Well, that went remarkably well. Perhaps it is going to turn out to be a breakthrough. Thankfully no one has tried to shoot Larry and Andrew in the past few hours. 🙂

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  16. I’ve never been to a Chick-fil-A, but I do know that these fast food places have to put up with a lot of misbehaving and abusive customers. So let’s hope the tape reveals some solid information.

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  19. Hmmmm … getting a pic of the vehicle and license number seems almost too good to be true, given past history. I shall continue holding my breath and biting my nails, hoping that finally the guys are going to get a lucky break.

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  20. We’re getting somewhere, thanks to Tony’s help. And I have to say, I’ve often thought the same thing about breakfasts that include a chicken sammie for breakfast. Maybe I’m just too much of a purist but nope.

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