When life is a 'complicated order.'

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"Do not get loud with me."

One of my favorite Mad TV skits is Bon Qui Qui at the King Burger.  Essentially, it's a skit about a fast food employee, Bon Qui Qui, and how she interacts with customers and does (or doesn't do) her job as expected.   One customer, a young woman, orders, among other things, a cookies and cream milk shake.  Bon Qui Qui looks up when she hears the word, 'milk shake', and says, "You sure you don't just want a coke?"  The customer is incredulous and affirms that she does, indeed, want a shake.  Bon Qui Qui flatly explains how how difficult it is to make a shake, and she doesn't even know how to use that machine, and ends solidly with,  "No. You can have a coke." Another customer asks for something more than the usual on his burger. Bon Qui Qui rolls her eyes, grabs the microphone, and over the loud speaker says,  "I got a complicated order..."

Ever heard the phrase, "Sometimes you're the windsheild, sometimes you're the bug"? In my world, sometimes I am Bon Qui Qui, and sometimes I am the customer.

Yes, I know this skit is a parody on customer service, but I can't help but find pleasure in her refusal to do what is expected, and of course to make an analogy.  When I am in the mood to take control of  what life dishes out by circumstance or person, I feel as if I have been handed a 'complicated order.'   So, I channel Bon Qui Qui, setting limits, flatly saying what I will or will not do.  "No, You can have a coke."  Sometimes I doubt myself after the fact and wonder whether I should have been so bold, so...I don't know...ME.  Still, I was me, said what I said, did what I did, and I deal with public opinion.

At other times, I am the customer, incredulous that my order is not as I want, worried that others may find me difficult, picky for asking for anything.  Here is where I am the bug, the victim, dumbfounded, to what just happened.  But I am the customer!  I have been wronged!  Where is the manager!?  (and so on).  

Bon Qui Qui may be fictional, but I love to see her stand up for herself, because I sometimes have trouble doing that.  Next time the opportunity arises, I may be saying, "Do not get loud with me," and really mean it and not care what you think.