morons in the deli

created by prole

(person) by prole (1.8 d) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Jul 08 2000 at 23:35:08

i've realized lately that there must be some very insurmountable difficulty to preparing a bagel with cream cheese and tomato. this is due in part to the fact that it's been some time since i did it myself and can't remember exactly how much effort the operation required in order to be completed successfully. mostly, however, it is due to the chronic inability of the people who work in the deli to do a halfway decent job of it.

every day, i order my little bagel and watch, mouth agape, as without fail someone makes a complete mess of my future meal. one boy takes the tiniest amount of cream cheese possible and scrapes it across the bagel, guaranteeing that the tomato will not remain in place, but will slide off repeatedly when i try to eat it. one girl never listens when i tell her my order and always tries to hand the bagel back to me sans tomato. and she likes to set one half of the bagel on top of the other, so that the half on top is covered with cream cheese on both sides, again resulting in unnecessary messiness. and today, a gentleman whom i formerly respected decided that putting on both gloves was too much trouble and instead proceeded to prepare the bagel using only one hand. he got a big glop of cream cheese on half of the bagel, then slid the other half all over the counter trying to spread the cheese, distributing the toppings of the bagel all over said surface. had i wanted a plain bagel, i would certainly have taken one.

i'm disappointed in these people, but i can sort of sympathize, as i'm growing increasingly surly while at work and leave my desk as little as possible. maybe next time i'll ask if i can prepare the bagel myself, ensuring that it's done to my exacting (but entirely reasonable) standards.

whomever did the softlinking.. being a proletariat is not an excuse for bein a dipshit. spreading cream cheese on a bagel is not difficult. working in food service is not an excuse for making the rest of the lower class look bad.

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chaos

Proletariat	lox and bagel	Smoked salmon and cream cheese pate	moron
cream cheese	deli	bagel	Searle's Chinese room
Fussy	Yuppie	proletarian	Panopticon
Swedish, in one word	lower class	You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike	phone sex
tomato	Pate	carnage	Finicky
elitism	ironic	Spit	prole

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