werepossum
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- Jul 10, 2006
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That is brilliantly German.You're welcome..... Don't forget what I have heard came from the Germans said in the trenches in WW!: Die Lage ist hoffnungslos, aber nicht ernst.
The situation is hopeless but not serious.
You have to ask though. I pick up McD Frappacinos for the wife and I can't count the times that I have paid for one and had to get my money returned because the girl forgot/didn't know that the machine literally five feet away wasn't working - even though the cashiers are the ones who use it.I don't often go to Wendy's, but so far I haven't used a McD's kiosk. Mostly because I usually just stop in to grab a shake, and you can't ask the kiosk "so, is the shake machine working today?" before you get on line. (For some bizarre reason, NYC has been experiencing a real epidemic of frequently broken shake machines over the past couple of years. Until it finally dawned on me to ask about it first thing, it had gotten incredibly irritating...) And before anyone says "they could/should/would program the kiosks to know when the shake machines are broken", let me just say: ^_^
And of course there was no question of customization. You put a nickel in the slot, and took out your dish of <whatever> just as it came out of the kitchen... and of course you had to repeat the process for every item you wanted, rather than getting your entire order on a single tray at the same time. Realistically, if it had remained an efficient way of running even a fast-food "restaurant", they'd still be around...
There is not a mental struggle over whether to go into fast food or theoretical physics.