12.14.2008

Never trust a cheap burrito

Safia and I were hungry tonight, as usual, and didn't have many food options, as usual. We tried dormroomdeliveries.com but it was closed on Sunday. I know, I don't know of many online services that are closed - ever - but this one was.

ADVENTURE!

I hop in my car and we drive down Fig looking for, literally, any random place to grab something to eat. Keep in mind that it is the night before a crazy finals day and both Safia and I have procrastinated too much for our own good. So we're chop chopping this.

We find (after U-turning because we failed to find anything the first time) La Taquiza in itty bitty wee corner in the Pasta Roma shopping area next to the glamorous nail salon known as Glamorous Nail Salon where I occasionally get my nails glamoured, if you will.
Super sketchy. But hey, it's South Central, what do you expect?

We order, get our food, go back. Approx. <15
I cut open my vegetarian burrito and BAM

BEEF galore.

WITW?!? I'm starving. I eat some of Safia's food and hop back into my trusted vehicle for some customer satisfaction.

I call La Taquiza aka La Stupida Ruina Ma Dinera to find out when they close. The woman hung up on me the first time I called. Bad connection, I guess. Bad impression, I know.

I arrive and tell the lady I got a meat-infused burrito when I requested a vegetarian one and rather than taking the food (uneaten) and the receipt (in tact), she questions my honesty.

"What?"
"I ordered a vegetarian and this one has beef in it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes..."
(I was actually just guessing. You know, my burrito just looked kind of "beefy")
"I just cut it open and there's beef inside."
She opens the box, sees the very evident beef and without a word disposes of it and tells the guy what I assume to be a request to make a vegetarian burrito

Meanwhile, a girl I tutor at VPP, Toni, walks in with her mom. I talk, find out how she's doing, etc. Upon leaving with my "vegetarian" burrito the mother stops me and asks if I would do any one-on-one tutoring (for Toni).

I've been looking to tutor one-on-one!

Granted my burrito was disgusting and I strongly dislike La Taquizablahblah now, I guess it was meant for Toni and her mom to meet me at the shady corner restaurant where this man outside says "Baaaaye" to everyone as a disgruntled security man observes carefully.

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