It was Tuesday. Normal SoCal weather in the midst of February, so around 73 degrees partly cloudy. I had zero period, trust me it's not as bad as you think it is, unless you hate the whole being awake before 6:00 am, moon still out, and cold mornings kind of thing. Anyway, this has absolutely nothing to do with the story I plan to share with all of you, I'm just trying to give you some background to a normal day that went pretty sour. After fourth period, it was lunch time. I get pretty excited for lunch time because I'm secretly 300 lbs inside and let's face it those taco pockets are pretty bomb if you know what I mean. So there I was,at the MPR lunch line patiently awaiting my taco pocket, my friends and I minding our own business, waiting to go inside. The line got shorter and shorter, and finally, I was inside the MPR! I was so happy, (you guys need to know how much I love taco pockets, they're like the happy parts of my childhood put into a pocket of whatever ingredient it may be. It's so delicious that I just wanna cuddle up in it.) This is what I've been waiting a full day and a half for. Okay, anyway, so I'm finally inside of the MPR, in yet another line for lunch, but I'm closer this time. I finally get to the register and I pull out my lunch money, being twenty dollars. And you know what the lady tells me? "I don't have change, no, go get change" WHAT? EXCUSE ME! No I wish there was something stronger than all caps to capture the pure anger I felt and am currently feeling because of this incident. My blood was boiling, I felt embarrassed even though I'm sorry, what do you mean, no change? I have second lunch ma'am, it's already 15 minutes into lunch and you're going to tell me you don't have change? Oh no. So I can't have lunch? Now I may be over reacting but this isn't the first time this woman has unjustly turned someone away, other than myself she refused to serve my friend an uncrustable, but then gave one away to the next student. You guys don't even know how salty I was with this women. My salt level was beyond the amount of salt on the pretzels at school. It was more than just refusing to give me change, but also telling me I couldn't have lunch? I'm sorry, but you can't really refuse a child lunch because they're amount is too large. I want to see the rule where it says my lunch money must be below twenty dollars. It was second lunch for crying out loud, how do you not have change? Especially when the person in front of me just gave you four dollars. You should have seen my mothers face when I told her about this incident, the idea of refusing her daughter lunch because the woman didn't have any change, made her very perturbed. Imagine an old fashioned Hispanic woman who thinks not feeding children is a sin, so add that plus a bad day at work and you have my mother. Now I'm sure the majority of you are familiar with the phrase, "square up", and I'm sure my mother said something similar to that in Spanish. I calmed her down and told her I bought lunch else where, but you know, Hispanic moms are passionate and she was just as irritated as I was at lunch that day. I took my business somewhere else because the karts always give me change, and the other lunch women never give me issues. The moral of my personal narrative and rant, is to share
with you the experience of that dreaded Tuesday in February. And as a senior, this incident cause me to be even more excited to graduate.
The emotions caused by this event are conveyed well.
ReplyDeleteI feels, I definitely feels. The love for taco pockets is so relatable (they really are a gift from somewhere up above). On a more serious note, I love that you're so blunt and honest in both your writing and speaking. Keep on keeping on.
ReplyDeleteThis is so relatable because I think most of us have seen the wrath of the lunch ladies at least once. I felt your emotion and love for taco pockets throughout your writing. Good job!
ReplyDeleteThe best part of your piece is that I can very clearly visualize you and hear your voice as I read along. Your detail made it even more vivid as if you were telling me this story face to face again.
ReplyDeleteReading your story made me oddly happy, this is the highlight of my night to be honest. Great job!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Delaney. This is so great. I knew the story already but reading it gave me a whole new understanding to your salt levels.
ReplyDeleteI could feel your rage, and hear your as you rant, your have a really strong voice in your writing, I feels.
ReplyDeleteTaco Pockets have the key to my heart but not my stomach... I was laughing throughout the story because the same thing happened to me. Great job
ReplyDeleteI love the emotion that went into this story.It was a hilarious piece. I loved the imagery and diction used. I really felt like I could connect just because some of the lunch people are so rude but then others are sweet. GO SENIORS! READY TO GET OUT!!
ReplyDeleteSo much anger. for the love of taco pockets. I enjoy reading this because your honesty and strong character as a person just translates right over to your writing. I feel like I'm just having this conversation with you now. Good job
ReplyDeleteI can't even lol. I've had this happen lots of times and i'm so glad i'm not the only one. Good job talking about it without going crazy
ReplyDeleteThis sounds so much like you Eileen I'm laughing on the other side of the computer screen.
ReplyDeleteYou truly shine through your writing, great job (don't be salty that's my job)
ReplyDeletethis story was so funny
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