How To Make a Scene or, "Here's a Nickel, You Can Just Give Me A 10."

Step 1 - Order Chinese food, say you'll pick it up.

Step 2 - Drive 10 minutes to pick food up. Fail to find
a parking space. Drive around. Find a space. Make a U-turn.
Pull into space.

Step 3 - Get to restaurant before food is ready. Sit and wait.

Step 4 - Pay and leave

Step 5 - As you walk in the house, spouse tells you the
restaurant called. THEY GAVE YOU THE WRONG DISH.
THEY WANT YOU TO BRING IT BACK.

Step 6 - Call restaurant . Tell them that their delivery person can
deliver the correct dish and pick up incorrect dish.
They tell you the delivery person is out, you can
wait or pick it up. They then proceed
to have another conversation with
someone else while you are trying
to tell them what you're going to do.
They come back on the line and
you say, I'll come pick it up.

Step 7 - Drive back to restaurant. No parking space.
Drive around. Find a space.
Make another u-turn, park, march in.

Step 8 - Hand them the wrong dish, they give you the new dish.
PLACE RECEIPT ON COUNTER WITH A NICKLE AND SAY
I'D LIKE MY MONEY FOR THIS DISH BACK.
IT WAS 9.95. HERE IS A NICKLE, YOU CAN JUST GIVE ME $10.

Step 9 - Stun cashier, who says she can't do that.
You tell her yes, she can.
She goes to get manager.

Step 10 - Manager comes and says she can't do that.
You say, Sure you can. Here's a nickel, you can just give me a 10.
Manager asks if you want the dish.
You say, yes, but I'd like my money back for all the
inconvenience you've caused me.
Manager says you can't have the dish and your money back.
You say, yes I can.
YOU made the mistake.
I had to drive back to correct YOUR mistake.
YOU are ruining my dinner plans with my family.
You can give me my money back.
Here is a nickel, you can just give me a 10.

Step 11 - You notice that the entire restaurant is now quiet.
You don't care. You're annoyed.

Step 12 - Manager crosses her arms, leans back and
starts speaking Chinese to cashier.
You can only imagine what she's saying about you.
You don't care.
Manager says she can give you 10% off your next visit.
You say you're never coming here again and that you want your money back.
Manager says she can't give you your money back.
You say, yes you can, here's a nickel, you can just give me a 10.
She says she can give you $5.
You say fine.

Step 13 - You take the $5, your nickel, your correct dish and leave.

THAT is how to create a scene.

*Now, I normally don't operate like that.
Normally I would go get the dish and
simply never order from there again,
but something came over me.
I did not yell, I did do some finger pointing.
I was annoyed.
I wanted to be compensated for the inconvenience.
Restaurants will take an item off a bill when there is a
problem, right?
I"m not proud of my behavior.
I don't know what was up with me.
I was very aggressive.
I think I was possessed.
Have you ever done something crazy like that?