An incident in Debenhams cafe

I wasn't intending on writing in this blog two days in a row but after the incident in Debenhams this afternoon just felt I had to...

After a nose around the sale items I felt a bit peckish so decided to have lunch in the café.

As I approached the cafe and noticed the vacant look of the 17 year old girls behind the counter, dread poured into my very soul and these girls did not disappoint... Enquiring as to what vegetarian options where on offer (I didn't dare use the p word) I was greeted with a pained grimace and an offer of a jacket potato... I switched my attention to the sandwich bar and again made my enquieree... As the girl looked equally, if not a little more, vacant than the last, I again omitted asking for the pescaterian option and asked what was vegetarian... After a pause and a scan of her ingredients she answered "Ummm.... is cheese vegetarian?" I stifled my laughter and said yes, I did believe that cheese is meat free...  So it seemed apart from the potato this would be my only option.

"OK then, I will have a cheese, salad baguette then please"

"Oh..." She answered "We only have parmesan or that stuff" indicating the buffalo mozzarella. 

"No, Cheddar?" I asked solemnly

"No..."

"Could you check?" I pleaded

"I 'spose I could ask in the kitchen" She replied staring at me with a blank smile.

"Will you then?" 

I got no verbal reply to this just a shrug as she turned a left the counter...

This is when it all got a little weird...

I noticed that she hadn't completely left my view... She appeared to be... She was... She was shiftily hiding round the corner, checking her mobile...

After about 30seconds she put her phone back in her pocket and reappeared back behind the counter to announce that, no... She had checked with the kitchen and they had no Cheddar left... Sorry... 

What she hadn't realised that while she was preoccupied with her phone her colleague had actually been to the kitchen and returned holding a sample meal... A jacket potato with... yes, you guessed it, Cheddar cheese! Which was now sitting in the display cabinet... 

"What kind of cheese is on that potato then?" I enquired, indicating the potato

"Wha?" 

"The cheese, on that potato? That's Cheddar isn't it? Could I have some of that or is it reserved for jackets only"

"I think that's parmesan... Or that stuff..." She answered, indicating the mozzarella again.

"Nope, I think it's Cheddar" I insisted, getting quite agitated...

"I don't think it is" she replied

So, without a word, I worked my way down the line and asked the girl behind the hot food counter "Excuse me, what type of cheese is this?"

"Cheddar" came the unsurprising answer.

"Well can I have some in a sandwich then?" I asked with a sarcastic lilt... "Of course" Came the rather surprised answer and I immediately felt guilty as it wasn't actually her that had annoyed me so I made sure that my glare didn't leave the previous girls eyes while the sandwich was being made...

I do feel that if I'd only just chosen the lasagne life would have been a great deal easier...