Fun With Stoners

It's been a long day. I haven't eaten because I wanted to exercise first. It's dark now, but I the streets are great for Rollerblading, so I decide to combine them with a trip down to Taco Bell.

I get there at 11:02. The dining room has been closed for 2 minutes. Now, I've never much understood how a company could discriminate against people based on whether or not they have a car, but that's exactly what Taco Bell does!

They don't want me as a customer after 11pm unless I'm in a car. I know from experiences as a kid that they won't serve me from the drive up window on blades, and I couldn't even trigger the sensor which says "ding, a customer is here."

But I didn't come all this way for nothing!

I hang back and wait for my opportunity. There's a woman in a car being a car already ordering. Now's my chance. I knock on her window.

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You might think it's unusual to have your windows knocked on while you're in the drive up at a fast-food restaurant, but let me give you a little background into just how unusual it can be!

First off... it's late and it's Taco Bell. Odds are, the only people here are stoners. No soccer moms here! Second, it's late... they are probably stoned, which is why they are at Taco Bell in the first place. Munchies.

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I totally freak out this lady. She looks shocked and doesn't even make eye contact. I explain to her through the window that I just want to order some food and I need her help, but she's too paranoid to care. She drives up to box, leaving me where I was. The man tells her to wait. I'm just standing there, a bit amused, but confused. She rolls down the window and summons me to her door. Oh cool! She changed her mind!

I get up there and am immediately hit by the smell of incense. I suddenly get why she was so freaked out! LOL. I wonder if stoners realize that the only people who burn incense - especially in a car - are people covering up the smell of weed. It's a dead give away. I probably could have gone back with her and partied, had I been so inclined, but she struck me as the kind of user I didn't have much in common with. You know, turn on, tune in, tune out.

I make my order and blade in front of her car. She hangs back, way back at the first booth, the one where you normally pay first. She's too stoned to realize it's closed and she'll have to pull up to the second window.

The guy at the window doesn't want to give me the food, but I smile pretty and finally he gives me the food so I'll go away.

It was so much fun, I almost wanna try it again!