Living where we live most people go to church. It’s a “Christian” area where school teachers are Christian, doctors are Christian, and most of the people at eating establishments on Sunday afternoon are Christians that have just left church.
Today we decided to try out a new place bypassing our normal drive-thru McDonald’s for the kids after church lunch. Now, because we decided to bypass our normal drive-thru option that meant that we needed to be prepared to walk into a crowded place with three boys and a bunch of hungry post-church people. That’s exactly when I like to watch people.
I like to see the urgency in getting one’s food. I like to see the “serve me” mentality, and the attitudes that come with being in a busy place. Now, I’m not saying that everyone in the building just came from church. Maybe they dressed up to look like they went to church and were talking about some other “message”, but some of the rudest people were at lunch today.
There was one girl standing behind me in line waiting to order food. Because it was one of those burrito places where you walk down the line and watch them make your food, I was able to share the entire food making experience with her and the guy that she was with.
“What kind of place is this”, in a typical high school snob voice. ”Maybe if they weren’t so busy the could focus on customer service!.” ”Why did we even come here?” ”I am not impressed.” ”I can’t believe they are out of ice. Isn’t someone going to fix that?”
On and on she went about how terrible the service was, how unimpressive the food looked, how slow the employees were. I felt like turning to her and asking what the message at church was about but I figured that would be in bad taste.
Anyone else notice how Sunday afternoons are the worst time to go out to eat because of the crowd that’s out there?
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