Elderly Couple (Not Knight and Elgordo)

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:09 pm

Stolen from another forum....

An old man placed an order for one hamburger, French fries and a drink.

He unwrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half, placing one half in front of his wife.

He then carefully counted out the French fries, dividing them into two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife.

He took a sip of the drink, his wife took a sip and then set the cup down between them . As he began to eat his few bites of hamburger, the people around them were looking over and whispering.

Obviously they were thinking, "That poor old couple - all they can afford is one meal for the two of them."

As the man began to eat his fries a young man came to the table and politely offered to buy another meal for the old couple. The old man said, they were just fine - they were used to sharing everything.

People closer to the table noticed the little old lady hadn't eaten a bite. She sat there watching her husband eat and occasionally taking turns sipping the drink.

Again, the young man came over and begged them to let him buy another meal for them. This time the old woman said "No, thank you, we are used to sharing everything."

Finally, as the old man finished and was wiping his face neatly with the napkin, the young man again came over to the little old lady who had yet to eat a single bite of food and asked "What is it you are waiting for?"

She answered

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"THE TEETH."

Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 471 Location: Liverpool

Years ago when I worked at Maccies, a woman called the store saying that she had taken her teeth out when she ate her meal, she had put them on the tray (which I did notice at the time). Somehow she forgot to put them back in and then left. She was calling to ask if anyone had come across them on the tray before the rubbish was binned.

Unfortunately, I hadn't noticed the teeth and had just dumped the everything on the tray in the bin. And that bin had been emptied already so me and one of the managers had to go through the bags to find the teeth. The trouble is, that at Maccies they put all the bags into a compressor to crush them down to about 8 inches thick, so we had to open about 8 bags of crushed wrappers and leftovers (wheres a puking emoticon when you need one) It was vile, mushy food etc. I was the lucky one to find the awol knashers, which were luckily still in one piece despite being crushed with several tons force.

It was hilarous though, the manager who had volunteered to help me find them forgot to mention that he had a pretty severe phobia of false teeth. When I held them up triumphantly he started dry heaving all over the place, begging me to take them away. God knows what he would have been like if he had come across them. I was in stiches and loads of the other staff were in hysterics when they came outside to see what all the fuss was about.

The lady was chuffed when she came to collect them. I had scrubbed and sanitised them for her, they were sparkling. She was damn lucky to get them back, most other people would have refused to find them for her. But as I always say, I'm a softie me.

Wenchy