I like to consider myself an edumacated person when it comes to pop culture, higher education, and regular-everyday-stuff. So, when I drive through Taco Bell on my bi-weekly visit to pick up my usual, I know what I’m putting in my body. Yeah, yeah. I know it’s crap, but it’s damn good crap. And when you have two toddlers, a full-time at-home job, and a lack of motivation to cook, you tend to drive-thru more than you should. *Justification alert*
Today was any other day at the Taco Bell drive-thru. I roll in my T&C up to the voice box (which, BTW, is a bit quieter than usual I notice) and order my usual: T6 Combo with steak baja chalupas, soft chicken taco, and mountain dew. Mmmm… tasty. EVERY FRIGGIN time I order, I think to myself, “I really need to look up the Nutrition Facts on this,” at the same time thinking, “I really DON’T need to look up the Nutrition Facts on this. Am I CRAZY? I don’t want to give ups the goodness of the T6 Combo for my health!”
I pull up to the window in the normal speediness of my Taco Bell. (They really are quick here!) I get the usual question, “Any sauce?” and I give my normal answer, “One hot, please.”
I get a look from the window lady.
TB: “Were you here yesterday?”
Me: “Um. No, not yesterday. But I’m here about 2x a week, but not yesterday.”
TB: “Oh. I remember that you always ask for ‘One hot’.”
Me: “Yeah. I always get the same thing.”
TB: “This isn’t good for you! You shouldn’t eat this!”
Me: THINKING: Uuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm… Exsqueese me? Did you just turn into my father and tell me I don’t need to eat the food you are serving me from TACO BELL? Do you think I don’t KNOW what crap you are serving me? Do you think I am STUPID and didn’t read “Fast Food Nation” and give up all drive-thru for a year?
I guess I am stupid, because she continues.
TB: “I don’t eat this stuff. It’s so BAD for you. I just had a baby 4 months ago and I have to lose weight (patting flat belly). I can’t eat this stuff.”
Me: nervous laughing “Yeah. I know it’s bad. But, hey, ha, I don’t eat McDonald’s! Ha, I haven’t, ha, had McD’s in like, ha, 5 years. My kids have never even had it! Ha!”
Why am I trying to justify my addictions choices to the Taco Bell lady SERVING me this fattening food?
I know what I eat. I know it’s crap.
Hey, you have a crappy job lady. So THERE! TTTHHHH!
I’m going to eat my crappy delicious food. Lard and all.
Go suck it, Taco Bell lady.
See ya tomorrow!
What the eff, dude?!?! I would have seriously pounded my fist on her stupid head. Ok, so it would have just been an Ally McBeal type of fist pounding, but who cares. I think you should go to TB four more times in the next few days. Oh and.. get me a Nachos Bell Grande, extra meat, extra cheese. But, I’ll take a diet coke. Oh WTF, I’ll take a Mt. Dew, too!!
Taco Bell is soooooo good! Isn’t it her job to serve you and not to tell you not to eat it? I would’ve fired her if I were her boss, dumb girl. I ate at Taco Bell on my way home from my doctor visits when I was pregnant, until the last month or so when we moved too far away. Man, I miss Taco Bell.
What the crap?! I hate it when I chastized for what I order and when…when I was pregnant with Gracie Jon and I were in Vegas and I ordered a steak. Now, normally I don’t ever complain to the kitchen at a restaurant, but this time when it got to my table it was practically MOOing and I was still queasy pregnant sick. I asked the waitress to take it back, and I mentioned that I was pregnant (newly) and couldn’t deal with bloody meat. She actually lectured me on eating red meat with a bun in the oven(and I don’t know about you, but I got lectured by my doctor about eating the stuff for better brain development…) and almost didn’t bring me the steak back after it was cooked!
Argggh! Why to random people insist on giving their unsolicited opinions?
By the way, it’s almost 1 am here and I suddenly have a craving for chalupas. Damn you and your song-sticking-food-suggesting blogs!
Pintos and beans. Mmmm. Do they still make that?
Wow, I think she could get fired for that, telling you that you should not eat the food they are selling. Whether she is right or wrong the fact is, it’s not her place. Jeez, when will people learn to keep their comments to themselves.
I eat (ate) at Taco Bell so often (read, almost everyday) that every once in a while, the manager would give me a free meal! Our TB is closed for remodeling right now and has been for the past month. Talk about withdrawls. I’m about to go crazy here.
WHAT? That’s just crazy! It think it’s time to find yourself a new Taco Bell to visit. This one just got lame. hehe!
I have a secret love for TB too. I always get two Taco Supremes, not sour cream and a Pepsi. Mmmmmm! You are not alone in your forbidden love of the fast food.
I can’t believe that worker! Imagine if her manager heard her lecturing you not to eat there. She’d be out on her butt in five minutes flat.
But I’m totally with you when it comes to fast food. Sometimes you just can’t resist even if you should.
And I have an unhealthy addiction to Big Macs, which is a lot worse than TB food. In fact, I don’t even want to think about the quality of the food. It tastes good and that works for me.
I have a love for TB that started in College. They used to have deals with 3 soft tacos for $1 for something like that. I was poor and I ate TB. I still like it on occassion. And definitely MDew is the best with TB.
That’s too funny that she’s telling a CUSTOMER not to eat their food! If she’s so high and mighty then maybe she shouldn’t be selling it.
Well I personally NEVER eat that horrible fat-laden fast food. That’s why I’m a slim, svelt size 18.
Taco Hell, I mean, Bell is the best damn food around. I can personally say though it may not be good to eat when pregnant. Right before one of my check ups I rushed through the drive thru and pounded down 2 chalupas. When the doctor did the heartbeat, he detected an arrymthmia and I had 1 month of constant visits and ultrasounds to check everything. They never heard the arrythmia other than that visit. So I must attribute to TB. Still love you though, just not when pregnant.
Oh, man… I can’t believe that! I’m not a taco bell fan, but I do have a weakness for McD’s breakfast sandwiches. Gimme a sausage mcgriddle or a bacon egg and cheese biscuit and i’m in hog heaven. ha. get the pun? hogs? bacon? sausage? yeah…
LOVED this post!! So fun. You have a witty style!
Mmmm….Taco Hell. LOL
That woman needs to get a different job. Cracker.
How rude! I like your come back though. It made my laugh way too loud at the office. Ugh! I can not believe she through in the baby bit. I would have climbed through that tiny window and hurt her. Sorry but I love me some lard too!
I was so excited about this post that I forgot how to spell. It should be threw not through. Either way, I would find myself a new Taco Bell. I can not believe the nerve some people have.
Sorry Angie!
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Loved this! “Umm, exsqueeze me?”
OMG. Seriously?! She is a bad lady. I hate her. I loves me some TB also - that’s why we share blood.