TMV loves Wendy’s which is a few minutes drive down the street. So today he craved chili.
And he couldn’t resist.
“I’ll have a large chili,” he told the shift manager. “Without the finger.”
She cocked her head and asked him something so he said in Spanish. “Queria un chili. Sin el dedo.” And she roared with laughter.
See? Some people DO have a sense of humor.
PS: The fingerless chili was great but the earlobe got stuck in my teeth.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.