Mates rates are the
cheap prices you get when your
friend works at some sort of
convenience store,
fast food chain or
the like. Usually your
friend, when
serving or
charging you, usually undercuts anywhere between
20 to
80% of the price.
Sweet. You are
ineligible for this if
the man the
boss is around.
Not only do you get some
cheap food but you also know that you're food is of reasonably
high quality.
Yum. They might even add a
bit extra. This probably doesn't count for much at
shithole excuses for food chains like
McDonald's but from
personal experience I can tell you that having a
friend who
works at
Subway has to be a
blessing from God...
Enter nostalgia mode.
Me and my friends rock up to
Subway on a
Saturday night, and
lo and behold our good friend Stu is working there! My friends, being the un
enterprising ones, order a standard
footlong Melt (equivalent of a
Big Mac). Me, in my
most seductive manner sidle up to Stu and ask him for a
custom sub.
I won't tell you what happened but basically I ended up with a sub with
quadruple ham,
double turkey,
double beef,
double bacon,
chicken,
triple cheese.
It was good. All this for about
$A4 with a drink and 5
cookies thrown in. Probably worth about
$12.
It was
sweet. It was
twice as
heavy as my friends'. It was so
big the
bread roll was
splitting. I was
full after 3
inches. It
affirmed in my
eyes that
mates rates are just one of those
small incessant things that make life that little bit more bearable.