Except Ice

Keeping with the “I workout” social media messaging, I thought I’d share this story about what Beaner and I did after we worked out.

After working out on Saturday morning, we decided to grab coffees using coupons Beaner got at a recent campout in the local park. We pulled up to the drive-thru and informed the employee we had coupons for two free coffees.

 

“OK. What would you like?” she asked.

“May be get them iced?” I asked.

“No. Hot only,” she replied without any hesitation.

“What if we are willing to pay more for iced?” I asked, noticing that iced coffees were only twenty cents more than hot coffees.

“No substitutions. How would you like your hot coffee?” she asked.

“What are our options?” I asked.

“Some people like cream, some people like sugar, some people like cinnamon. You can have it however you want it,” she advised.

“Except iced,” I said under my breath.

“We’ll take two hot coffees with cream and sugar, please. We’d also like two donuts,” I requested.

“What kind of donuts?” she asked.

“The pumpkin,” Beaner said.

“I think we may be out of those. Let me check….we have one,” she replied.

“We’ll take it. Will you please cut it in half for us?” I requested.

She kindly obliged.

After working out on Monday night, we decided to treat ourselves to frozen yogurt. We tasted a few of the flavors and both decided pear was the best option. I ordered my yogurt, they made me a lovely cup, and then Beaner placed her order.

“Sorry, we’re out of pear,” the employee advised her.

“Seriously?” Beaner asked.

“We’re out of what it takes to make any more yogurt,” they told her, without any compassion for her sadness.

“Would you like to share?” I asked. “They can’t cut it half, but we can ask for two spoons.”

Two spoons later we were quite the ‘pear’ – sitting by the fire sharing our second post-workout dessert in less than two days. Working out really appears to be working out for us.

 

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