Maybe if next time I add ketchup and mustard. Nah. Maybe not.

Have I ever told you about the guy that ordered the bacon shake in an attempt to kind of stump me as a cashier? No? Okay then, here it is.

I was working at the ol’ Arptic Cirpcle one night, when a couple of high school kids came in and one thought he was really funny, and ordered a bacon shake. I promptly called the side of bacon into the microphone, and asked if there was anything else he wanted, like his order was no different than any other I had to deal with in my job. He just kind of looked at me like he didn’t understand. I asked him again, if he wanted anything else, and he was like “Dude, I didn’t really want it man.” And I was like “Dude, than why did you order the stupid thing bro?” In the kind of tone of voice you a parent would use on a kid who had to go to the bathroom now that they were in the car in spite of the parent asking them if they had to go before they left.

Anyway, it was pretty funny to me because the kid didn’t know what to do, and his friends were all laughing at him because nothing had gone as he planned, and now he didn’t know if I was going to demand that he buy the bacon shake or what. In order to encourage him to follow through with the gag, I told him I would give it to him for free if he would eat it at the register so I could see. He refused. I then told him I would buy the shake, and give him 5 bucks if he would eat it in front of the register, and he still said no.

I explained to him about upset I was by his lack of commitment to what could have been a pretty good joke, and then proceeded to eat the bacon shake that I had one of my worker bees make to show him how it was done, and what he should do if he felt like doing something silly in the future. After a couple parting shots and laughs and whoa’s from his friends they all left without buying anything.

The shake wasn’t that bad.

I tried it once with a corndog shake, at another store, and as the customer, because the joke definitely did have potential if carried out correctly in my mind.

It worked. The expressions on the faces were priceless.

The shake… (hissing inhale like “kshhsshsss”)… not so good.