Adventures With Subway

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Recently I’ve discovered that Subway, despite its nauseating smell associated with a bad memory from childhood,* actually makes edible sandwiches, and that they actually interpret “a little bit of __” to mean “a little bit.” Now it’s my routine to grab a sandwich before I go to a couple of my classes. Today, though, it had closed early, and it totally threw off my groove.**

 

Instead, after class Eric and I went to another Subway, which is not quite across the street from the one we were at, and saw the most amazing thing ever.

 

The Subway girl was moving in slow motion.

 

Not like in the morning when you’re up when you shouldn’t be and you keep sort of freezing up slowly and staring at the wall. No, this girl was doing everything she was supposed to—just at 33 rpm instead of 45.

 

After I saw her ask a couple of people to repeat their orders, and she asked me mine as well, I said, “Long day?”

 

She even spoke in slow motion.

 

“I’m

sorry,” she said.

“I’m

on

Percocet.”

 

I blinked. “What?”

 

She nodded. “I

broke

my

finger

in

the

fridge

door

yesterday.”

 

She displayed the appendage, which under the thin plastic film that is the government’s concept of Sanitary Conditions, was braced and bound and splinted up.

 

“Why the hell are you here?” I asked.

 

She shrugged … slowly. “I

guess

I’m

stubborn.”

 

“Well,” I said, in full Hi, I’m A Friendly Stranger Making Small Talk Mode, “I hope it feels better soon.  Say, you’re giving me three cookies instead of two.”

 

She informed me, slowly, that one was broken and unsellable, and she figured I wouldn’t mind an extra cookie.  And after a few more minutes’ talk as she fixed Eric’s sandwich, we left.

 

It was an odd little passing ships moment, but now I want to go back to Subway to see how she’s doing. People are fun.

 

 

*In which I got nauseated, see.

 

**Given that this class was ceramics, that turned out to be a running theme.

Comments

[marajade893.livejournal.com]

WOW...that's so fun. I hope she feels better.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

*giggles* yeah, I've seen that kind of thing. I'm guessing they had no one else, so they had her come in all doped up on pain meds :) Slow service is better than no service, right?