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title=Dunkin' Order
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#Category writing
#QuarkedUp
description=anxiety ordering at dunkin'
published=2023-06-11 13:39
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I described to my sister once, a few weeks ago, about how I order at Dunkin' when she gets something,
too, and she told me I needed therapy.
i usually get an iced coffee and bacon, egg, and cheese on a bagel but. <br> when she gets things too
it's too much. the food is the most important thing to get; coffee i can make but food is hard. so.
she was concerned that they didn't get the vanilla right in "medium frozen chocolate, add vanilla". So i
ordered the drink first.
<p class="order">"Can I get, uh, a medium frozen chocolate. With vanilla added, too."</p>
You have to separate the vanilla, see, so it stands out. Give it weight, significance, make it a
palpable, physical object.
And then she got a sausage egg and cheese on a croissant. but ordering two separate sandwiches is too
much, god is it. and it sounded good, anyway. if i didn't order two i wouldn't have gotten anything, her
order
is more important.
<p class="order">"and two sausage, egg, and cheese on a croissant"</p>
the significant things are first and can stand alone as their own things. but she wanted hashbrowns and
a donut. how do you overcome ordering FOUR things (remember, the sandwich is one thing just twice). you
group them.
<p class="order">"and can i get hashbrowns and a glazed donut as well?"</p>
when i told her this she interpreted it as "so you didn't get anything you wanted, then". But i did. I
wanted to get you what you wanted. And i just needed something to eat so the spiro didn't cause me
distress. And I can make coffee at home, it's no problem.
But it's important how you order it. A coffee and a coffee and a sandwich and a sandwich and hashbrowns
and a donut is insurmountable. God, it's monolithic <i>(in a sense of "too big to be overcome")</i>. But
a coffee and a sandwich (but twice) and a group of two small things? That's only three things, not six.
It's achievable, I swear. Six is too many. Five is too many. Four might be too many. Three is alright.
Two is perfect. One thing is okay if it's a drink. If it's food it's weird; they sell coffee and
sometimes food.
welcome to this head. it's nice, sometimes, and we overcome dumb problems that don't really exist in
weird, silly ways that make sense to us.
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this was originally posted <a href="https://twitter.com/gennyble/status/1667964675064049665">to
twitter</a>
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