Sunday, July 13, 2008

The plate is half empty, the plate is half full


One day at work I order a sandwich, and I say it's for here. I pretty much have three choices of things I can eat at work, and a sandwich is one of them.

"Would you like me to wrap half of it up for you?"

I laugh, because seriously, since when was there ever a sandwich I couldn't finish? That's what I tell the woman working and we laugh.

Then a little while later I have a sub at another place. I say I don't need a bag. The woman says, "I'll give you one because if you don't finish it you can still keep it in your purse."

Which is preposterous, because again, there has never been a sandwich I couldn't finish.

And about two weeks later I order a veggie burger. The woman asks if I'd like it cut in half.

Seriously, I can see only three things could be happening here:

1) People assume women don't eat
2) Women don't eat because people assume they shouldn't
3) I look fat in this dress

In closing I would just like to encourage women to eat the whole damn sandwich. It's only a sandwich, okay, and I can eat it all.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I bet one of the times you don't ask for a bag, you won't be able to finish the sandwich, and when you go and ask for a bag, the employees will laugh at you.

Anonymous said...

Were you wearing your matching fat-guy hat? Also, next time I would just eat the clerk.