Fruity

Yesterday I walked into my favorite coffee shop Corky's Hard Bean Cafe' and I said to the girl at the counter, "Do you have any fruit?" She said, "What?"

"Do you have any fruit?"

"I'm not sure what you mean." she replied.

"Bananas, Oranges, Apples, these are fruits", I explained. "Do you have any?"

She said, "Well yes, we have Mandarin Oranges."

"Great!" I exclaimed. "I'll have one and a water."

"Well, they're not whole oranges they're segments."

"Ok, no problem."

"So you still want them?"

"Yes."

"Hold on." Then she ran to talk with her manager. She returned a few moments later with no oranges, and rang me up. I noticed that the cost was $.50 I thought that wasn't a bad price for an orange, but as I didn't see anything orange except the painted wall behind the counter...

"For here or to go?" she querried.

"For here."

Just then her manager, Corky himself, emerged from the kitchen. "So did you want them?" He asked.

"YES." I calmly replied chiseling a grin across my face.

"Oh ok, I'll just get that for you."

And within the next minute they brought me a coffee cup full of orange segments. I sat down with Matt and enjoyed the fruit of my labor.

--Ben