THE SAGA OF THE TACO

As most of you probably know, the TampaBay Rays baseball team has made it to the world series playoffs. For the past 3 weeks Taco Bell has been announcing on TV that on Tuesday, October 28, they would be handing out free tacos to ALL AMERICANS. So yesterday I did some shopping and then went to Taco Bell for the free taco. There were cars and cars in a long line for the window ordering, so I parked my car and walked into the facility. There I found a snaked line 3 deep waiting to order their taco. When it was finally my turn to order, I told the girl that I wanted the free one and another one which I would pay for, and ‘only onions’ on the tacos.
Then I asked her “Why are you giving away free tacos” and she answered “we are sponsors of the world series games.” She ran it thru the order machine and handed me a receipt. When I asked ‘how much for the 2nd taco’, she waved me on and said nothing. So now the 3 deep line was waiting to receive their tacos. When it was finally my turn, they called out the number on my receipt and handed me a sack with 2 tacos wrapped up in it. On my way out of the
restaurant, a young boy came up to me and asked “how many tacos will they give you?” and I told him “all you want”. He ran over to the waiting car with a driver inside, and happily shouted “ALL YOU WANT!” I drove home, and set them on the kitchen counter, for dinner time. When I was ready to have my 2 tacos, of course they were cold, so I opened the 1st one up to set into my toaster oven to warm. WHAT A SHOCK! There was shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, onions, and a dabble of meat at the bottom. It took me about ½ hour to remove (as best I could)
the shredded lettuce and cheese, being careful not to remove the bits of onion or the bits of meat at the bottom of the tacos. Needless to say, they were not very good. (I still have the 2nd cleaned-out taco to eat today, but not sure if I will.) Well, lesson learned: If you want a good taco, don’t go when they are free; ante up the .99 cents and you will not only get it how you asked for it, but the lines won’t be as long either.