Posted by Dinah on September 20, 2002, at 8:04:49
In reply to Re: A funny thing happened on my break from hell, posted by Medusa on September 20, 2002, at 4:41:38
I have this problem sometimes. I try not to eat meat (not always successfully) so I sometimes ask that meat be left out of things it isn't ordinarily left out of.
There's a salad I like, you watch them prepare it, they take scoops of each ingredient and add it to the salad. I asked for it without meat, and the server and cash register clerk were positive it couldn't be done. So I very slowly explained to them. "You start to make the salad, you add each ingredient, when you get to the meat, *dooon't*".
Fortunately they thought it was funny, and I've had to use it a few times since, and everyone has been pretty good natured about it, although some poor soul just couldn't break the rules that far and gave me the meat on the side in a cup.
I think too much teaching to the test, and not enough critical thinking skills taught. That's not a criticism of the workers, who were trying their best, but of the entire school system in our area. All that matters is their most recent standardized test scores. :(
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