Not only do we never pass over free stuff but we try to milk it for everything its worth!

Today the country was overjoyed when the reigning queen OPRAH herself announced that she was treating America to a free meal! The result? Pandemonium. I went to my local KFC to make good on her promise and found myself in line for over an hour, everyone was waving that darn free meal voucher in the poor cashiers face. I truly though he was going to faint from over-exhaustion, I don’t think his round body ever had to move that fast back and forth so quickly. The line was out the door an I found myself noticing two things:

I found myself standing behind a pregnant woman with 4 children. Apparently she used up a whole ream printing up these vouchers. She waddles up to the counter and proceeds to tell the cashier that she “wants 25 meals” she lays the vouchers on the counter and waits expectantly for the cashier to make good on her request. I of course am angry because she’s directly in front of me and now I’m going to have to wait for another hour while they get her ridiculous order ready.The portly cashier runs to the back to speak with his manger (who looked exhausted as well) I can hear a heated argument between the two men and watch as the poor cashier runs back to the woman and happily tells her its one per person. She actually had the nerve to gripe about being denied her request and states rather loudly that “Oprah’s buying this for me” and storms off to wait for her 5 meals to be prepared. She apparently was trying to get food for the week! No, make that 2 weeks. Greedy? Definitely! come on now we’ve got to do better than this…..and we can!

So to all my AA’s Lets be respectful of the people in line behind us and remember that they are hungry too and that though we may have printed up hundreds of vouchers lets save some grilled chicken for everyone else…

I think that KFC needs to rethink their strategy a bit because after I ate their new grilled chicken I wanted to go to Popeye’s and get some GOOD chicken…..