Saturday, August 11, 2007

Part of this Complete Breakfast

There is a shuttle that takes you to the under-construction/temporary terminal. Once there, food options are limited. There is a bar which is not currently open (but is mad crowded as soon as it opens), and a couple of pre-packaged sandwich type things. One of them serves Dunkin Donuts coffee and the line for this place is quite long. After getting some food for the flight at the non-coffeed place, I headed back to wait on the line.

I remembered seeing a self-serve coffee area around the corner and sure enough, they had a thermos with regular, and one with decaf, and that was it. It said 2 bucks on the register and that was all there was. I asked the girl there for a regular coffee and she looked at me (it was self-serve, after all), and asked her how much it was and after a brief pause where she pondered my idiocy she said "Two Dollars". I filled up a cup and paid her and asked for a receipt. She had to disentangle the receipt paper and pulled out a huge strip of paper with tons of tiny "2.00" entries on it. She ran my receipt, which got stuck in the machine. She pulled the paper out, but the entry was so small that she had trouble ripping the paper off. She wound up tearing a chunk off of the earlier huge strip of receipts and giving it to me, which was just fine by me. I thanked her for saving me time and she didn't really acknowledge it. I thought I was being charming. Sigh.

I found a not-so-crowded gate and after burning my tongue a few times, enjoyed a nice breakfast.


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