When ordering fast food via a touch screen in the store, or via your mobile phone, they often have you add your name to your order. I frequently use “Megatron” as my name when ordering food at a restaurant. It makes for some fun interactions. Here’s an amusing example.
My kids today at breakfast were talking about how some of their classmates eat a hard-boiled egg every day at lunch. That sounded so delicious. I was curious how you package a hard-boiled egg to keep it from spoiling. I was looking up on my phone, “How do you store a hard-boiled egg for lunchbox.” Seeing all the delicious photos of hard-boiled eggs in lunchboxes made me all the more hungry for some eggs.
A couple of hours later, I was filling up my lawnmower gas tank thing at BP. Hard-boiled eggs continued to sit in my mind. While at the pump, I used my phone to look up what breakfast deals Wendy’s has, because Wendy’s is right across the street from the gas station. (I haven’t had a fast food breakfast in decades. Literally decades.) I ordered a combo egg & cheese biscuit, potato wedge fries, and coffee for $2.49. I can’t believe I just did that.
I go into Wendy’s to pick it up. Naturally, my order wasn’t yet in the online order pickup spot in the restaurant. I had just ordered it across the street.
The cashier, who is an elderly woman with a name tag of Martha, asked me if needed help. I showed her the receipt on my phone, she’s says squinting, “what’s that name?”
I’m thinking, “oh great, here we go, I’m going to have to say my name is ‘Megatron’ to this woman.”
I reply, “Megatron… Megatron X.”
She’s like, “ohhh, oooookay. Well, the order just came in so they are still preparing it.”
When the order was done, I was hoping she would call my name, “Megatron, your food is ready.” But she didn’t, she just said, “your coffee is coming.”
When I picked up my food, I said, “thank you, sweetie.” I have no idea why I said, “sweetie.” That’s something I say to my kids. Well, maybe now she’ll think Megatron is a really nice guy who says “sweetie” to people.