Place: Taco Bell
Lunch: Pacific shrimp taco (no tomato), beef combo burrito, nachos supreme (no tomato), Dr. Pepper
This is that ridiculous old Taco Bell in an old Sambo's building I'm sure I've mentioned before. It's a hodge podge of bad paint, old Taco Bell interior pieces, and Sambo's flooring. The seating, which was brought in recently, is from a Taco Bell eighties decor package that was repurposed from another Taco Bell that either got remodeled or demolished and replaced. (Not from a Taco Bell around here, mind you. NO local Taco Bell EVER had an eighties decor package in this market.)
There are far newer Taco Bell buildings than this dump out there that have been demolished and replaced with even newer Taco Bells.
Apparently, this long-running absurdity is going to continue. They put up a new menu board. Or maybe it's an old menu board new to this location. It looks completely out of place, of course.
Smiling Counter Girl is new. So new that she has no idea how to run the register. Big Old Biker Dude...the shift manager...is cheerfully assisting her. "So you hit 'Taco', then you hit...no, that's actually the Combo button. Take that off."
She does.
"Now hit Taco...no, you hit Combo again."
This goes on so long that he announces my drink will be free for being so patient, which of course only causes MORE confusion on how to do that at the register. By the time she's taken my money, the kitchen has already made everything. The good news being that, as Taco Bell goes, the food is pretty well made.
After all the craziness of March (five airports, four rental cars, one auto show, major car repairs, taxes), April is a blank slate.
I should settle in at home this month. Maybe get some projects done.
Or maybe just be horribly lazy.
