Normally, I have a decent time shopping at Wawa. I’ve been preturbed lately, though. Apparently, the Wawa in Thorndale has some wacky thing going on all the time there that causes the employees to meet in a huddle in the front of the store near the meat case. I suppose that’s fine if it’s store business and all, but here must have ben six employees in uniform there. When the meeting dispersed, none of them went back to work.
Instead, I was left to stand in line with a clerk who didn’t know how to reset the register after a purchase. I overpaid (as you always do at Wawa) for my sandwich, which only had one tomato, and it was on top of the lettuce, which was on top of the meat. Again. It sits there on top and collects all of the salt and pepper. So after you take the first bite into such a sandwich, you have not salt, pepper, or tomato, because you have to swallow the tomato (and everything covering it) in one bite so that the rest of the tomato slice doesn’t fall off the sandwich.
Even that wouldn’t be so bad if they filled the rest of the sandwich with lettuce, but it seems that they like to sprinkle lettuce lightly on the sandwich, close it, then apply the tomato, salt, and pepper.
So yeah, an undertrained clerk manned the register and the line backed up and it took 15 minutes to check out with my order. By the time I picked up my sandwich, two other sandwiches had been made by the only other person visible in the store. What happened to all of those other people? On break? Sheesh.
–Pause–
Tomorrow’s lunch I will attempt something new. Maybe I’ll stop over at Milltown. They have a decent sushi bar over there.
