Diet Coke
Posted: Sat 25 November, 2006 Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Travel 2 Comments »Why is it that the following phrase has so many problems being understood?
A Diet Coke, please, with no ice or lemon
Over the last two months, I’ve been eating in restaurants four nights out of seven. Some places have become regular haunts, some have been one-offs, some are just irregular “when I feel like it”s. But the commonality with all of them is that it’s incredibly rare to get what I ask for.
- Drink with ice, but no lemon. Common
- Drink with no ice, but lemon. Equally common
- Drink with both. Worryingly common
- Drink with neither – i.e. what I ordered. Depressingly rare
I just don’t get what the issue is with that order…
Numpties, that’s why. Automatons. I’m not an ice drinker. It’s very difficult to convey the concept of ‘no ice’. Especially when it comes to mineral water. Why on earth should I spend silly money on buying a bottle of overpriced mineral water in order to have it diluted by tap water?
My other bugbear is when asking for a mixer (eg bitter lemon) and no ice is to have the barstaff tell me it’s at room temperature. Nice and considerate of the bar staff, moronic of the manager. Randomly names Royal Albert Hall on a day when outside temperatures reach 35 degrees
Have the same problem don`t like ice in it and have on many occasions took the ice out in front of bar staff and dumped it in the ash tray with them giving me evils. As for lemon ewww…