DQ

While these stories won't always be in order, they will be posted as the memories come to me.  I wanted to share a story about my first job ever.  I worked at Dairy Queen.  My boss was a prick (which we all say), but I got to work with all my best friends!  Had the manager known they'd hired 4, possibly even 5 of us that were so close, it never would have happened.  My job was fun, it was silly, it was messy, and at times intense.  One of my favorite or even worst experiences at the DQ was working the Drive Thru.  When a customer pulled up the machine would shriek at you over and over and over until you hit the button to let the person in line know ya heard 'em.  Well, one day we had a rush and the damn thing was beeping and beeping.  I answered it and told the lady I would be with her in just a moment.

Well...it doesn't keep beeping once you've answered it the first time.

I went around making blizzards, helping the front counter staff, bagged stuff for customers, and then found that I wasn't really very busy anymore so I started to stack cups and plastic utensils and ketchup (yeah, that's how I spell it).

Suddenly, there was a loud knocking at the drive thru window and I nonchalantly walked up to the window and when I opened it there was a man there who said, "DO YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE A HUGE LONG LINE OF PEOPLE IN THE DRIVE THRU?!! I THINK YOUR MACHINE IS BROKEN!!!"

Holy.
Shit.

I busted ass getting order after order after order and took care of everyone immediately with my friend, Jen's help.  Management never found out about it.  Knowing me back then, I probably just said the same thing the dude said to me; that the machine was broken...so sorry.

Hardest work I'd ever done in my life in a span of 5 minutes!