Hard to Say Thanks

a song goes "it's hard for me to say i'm sorry"... but how hard could it be to say thanks if there's really reason to give gratitude?

it's hard to say thanks if there's somebody whose guts you hate and it hurts your pride to acknowledge the help.

on our way home, my co-young-creative (baka magalit eh) and i went to this always-out-of-stock-and-frequently-slow-service fastfood chain. i love their food, but their service frequently sucks. and usually in the evening, they ask you for your order but will tell you they dont have this and that. they will give you a choice to make you feel you have the choice, even if the only choice you have is to leave their store. This happened to me and my cousin weeks back:

Crew: Sir ano po order nyo?
Ako: Isang number 5
Crew: Sir sorry wala na kaming number 5.
Ako: Sige spaghetti na lang.
Crew: Sorry sir ubos na rin...
Ako: Ano pa ba available?
Crew: Meron pong #3 at #4
Ako: Sige number 3 na lang...
Crew: Ok lang po for 10 minutes?
Ako: (Aggst) Sige...
Crew: Ano pong drinks nyo?
Ako: Mountain Dew
Crew: Sir... wala na rin po. Pepsi na lang.
Ako: May magagawa pa ba ako? Dapat magsara na kayo.

Back to me and my co-young-creative after paying for our food: After putting the food on the table, i told my friend that the girl billed us incorrectly. Our bill should be Php115 + 55 = 170. My mental math could not go wrong. She only asked us around 130 bucks. So out of honesty and since i could not accept that my mental computation did not match the bill, we asked for a recomputation. I'm no math major but it's simple arithmetic, even zebras could do that, with blindfolds, no need for Boolean, Tangent and derivatives. After the hassle of going back to the counter despite our hunger.... they asked us 25 bucks more, and they did not even say THANKS for saving their freakin a$. even a smile would be nice, but no, they just told us we were 25 short. Stupid. Even more stupid than Spongebob as a cashier. At least Spongebob smiles. Stupid. And they still miscomputed. 170 PESOS. now we're pissed and so hungry to go back to the cashier.

remember: GRATITUDE IS PRICELESS