Airing of Grievances: “Mr. Softee Screwed Me on My Birthday!”
I try my best not to be too negative on this site, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to vent. Every once in awhile I’ll share some of the more angry useful emails I get in a post called “Airing of Grievances”. (If the Eater Complaints Dept. would like royalties, I’ll be happy to pay up…)
Photo of a Random Mr. Softee Vendor (Not the one being complained about)
Here’s a particularly bad email I got yesterday from a guy who was ripped off by a Mr. Softee truck yesterday, and on his birthday of all days!
“So yeah, the guy at 36th and 7th in the Mister Softee truck is a monster prick. I went up to him, asked him for a small cup. He hands it to me and I thought to myself “wow, that’s a huge small” – he didn’t tell me how much it was, but I gave him a 20. When he handed me $13 back, I said “$7? For a small?”
He claimed that he showed me the large cup and I said that’s what I wanted (that NEVER happened). I said “well, do you have a small cup?” and he showed me the smaller (presumably much cheaper) cup. I said “that’s what I wanted. I asked for a small cup.”
He then proceeded to get in my face about it…”
“I didn’t want to get hit in the face on my birthday (yeah, it’s my birthday), so I paid frickin’ $7 for mediocre ice cream. Would’ve been cheaper to order ice cream from room service at the Plaza!
But bottom line, this guy is a prick and should not be representing Mister Softee. I say boycott the bastard!”
That suuuucks. Although this lesson might be about how to pay for something, rather than how to order. The same thing happened in Midtown to a friend of mine who ordered a Gatorade, and gave the vendor a $20 bill without asking how much it was. He had already opened it and started drinking by the time he got his $15 in change- so it was too late to complain, or try and get his money back. I wouldn’t be surprised if the guy jacked up the price the minute he saw that cap come off.
So let this be a lesson to all of you… make sure you ask how much somethig is *before* paying. And whatever you do, don’t crack open a drink (or take a lick of ice cream) until you’ve been quoted a price.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:45 pm, July 9th, 2009 under Airing of Grievances, Mister Softee.
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30 Comments
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jerkface – don’t feed the troll.
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I prefer whiskey over icecream. Why would I be unwilling to appear in public? I was at the SMP2 event with 30 other midtownlunchers…
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“WHY, ‘adamprato’? Because you have a ‘two-bit’ mouth and you NEVER have anything to contribute to this, or to any other blog — that’s WHY.”
DocChuck, did you mistakenly reply to my post thinking you were talking about yourself?
“Shouldn’t you be spending more time looking for a legitimate job and less time in your feeble attempts to insult other posters on this forum?”
I mean, really? *you* are asking *that* question? Really?
Guy, this is because these scammers try to rip off the foreigners/ immigrants. They have a lot of money and don’t know any better. So they try it on everyone. It is a percentage game to them. Its similar to the guys trying so hard to sell there cds. Happy B-Day regardless!!