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Alert: Dunkin' Donuts Out of Donuts
May 7, 2009I never know how to categorize these blog posts. I'm putting this one under "End Times" although I was strongly tempted to created a category. I almost created a "donuts" category because every good blog needs a donuts category. Then I thought, "No, this is a story about a lack of donuts. Perhaps I should created a category called 'Fail' instead?"
I stopped by Dunkin' Donuts because I didn't have any money with me for parking. You know how this goes - you end up the in parking garage and you're on the hook for 75 cents, minimum, and then you discover you have no money. So you check all of the interior car compartments, look in the seats, under the floor mats - and now you have 28 cents which isn't going to do anything for you. So you have to get the ATM card out, but the ATM won't give you anything smaller than a fifty, so you look around and, well, there's Dunkin' Donuts. So you go in with your fifty and look around and THERE ARE NO DONUTS.
I mean every single donut tray is empty. The cashier looks at me, I look at the trays, she looks at the trays, I look at her, she looks at me. Then she has this apologetic expression, and says (wait for it) "We're all out of donuts."
I pause. I look around again. "You're all out of donuts?" I'm thinking, this IS Dunkin' Donuts right?
She looks more apologetic; maybe even embarassed. "We don't make the donuts here, and we estimate how many we'll need, and we were hit hard today."
Everything starts to spin and I feel faint. "You don't make the donuts here?" It's like finding out about the Easter Bunny. I hear it echo in my head over and over again. "We don't make the donuts here..."
I grab the counter, steady myself, and buy a chocolate chip cookie that is considerably less than fifty dollars. Armed with absolutely NO DONUTS and at least one dollar bill I leave. I can now pay for parking and escape the garage, but I also had my Dunkin' Donuts myth shattered. Not only are there times when the trays are EMPTY...
They don't even make the donuts there.
Comments
I went to Wanamakers (remember them) for a white button down oxford shirt. They didn't have any. Donuts?
Posted by: Willard Johns | May 9, 2009 11:32 AM
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. W C Fields, 1880-1946
Posted by: Will Johns | May 9, 2009 1:04 PM
WOW! That's worse than getting a cheeseburger without cheese! I guess its a conspiracy to buy their flatbread sandwiches.
Posted by: Edward | May 16, 2009 10:51 PM