About a month ago TW made noise about wanting a 7-11 because an ICEE would be good right now. I bit my tongue and did not say "Ummm Daily’s has ICEEs" because I did not feel like going out to get one. Bad me.
A few days later, I was picking up Michelle from downtown and thought I’d surprise TW with an ICEE. I stopped, I grabbed a cup, I pulled the lever on the COKE flavor and thick brown gooey liquid came pouring out. Not ICEE like at all. HMPH. It was crowded at the counter, so I just left.
A couple of weeks went by and TW had a bad day at work, Ms Mary died, so I figured I would get her an ICEE on the way to pick her up. I stop. I pull the lever. MORE BROWN GOO. Again, it was crowded and I was in a hurry so I didn’t say anything.
Another not so great day today and I needed to go out anyway so I went to Daily’s. I pull the lever. GOO again! An employee just happened to walk by so I mentioned that her machine hadn’t worked in a month. She said it works. I pull the lever and goo comes out. She said "See, it works." Huh?
An ICEE aka SLURPEE is suppose to be thick. They have those dome lids because you should be able to OVERFILL the FREAKING cup without it pouring out all over the place. That machine was not making ICEEs it was making GOO barely thicker than what was coming out of the fountain machine.
The woman shrugged her shoulders and walked away.
What in the heck is wrong with people that they don’t know what an ICEE aka SLURPEE is suppose to look like? What in the heck is wrong with people who can look at something like that and say "See, it works."???
Not amused, at ALL. I already boycott their gas pumps because the darn things never work properly. Now, I am boycotting the whole store because not only do their ICEE machines not work, their employees don’t even GET that there is a PROBLEM with the machines.
Geez.
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I have never had an Icee. I’m assuming it’s kinda like a Sno Cone? Kinda like flavored shaved ice, right? In which case goo is not ok. Unless goo is what an Icee is really supposed to be, but judging from your reaction-it’s really not…
Catnmouse…are you familiar with Dairy Queen? (I ask, not to be rude, but because if you’re not from the States you probably aren’t.) I would compare an Icee more to what a Mr. Misty would be if it were the consistency of a Blizzard. It’s pillowy soft, airy, frozen soda. I’ve seen them in Mountain Dew, Cherry, Blue Raspberry and Coca-Cola flavor. My children adore them. Denise, I am sorry your gas station employee is such a dolt.
First, I love commenter Cleo. She is so polite – the perfect Anti-troll.
Second, you have hit on one of my zillions of pet peeves – store employees who look at YOU like you’re crazy for pointing out an obvious problem.
My example – our Trader Joes sells whole bean coffee and has 2 coffee grinders, both of which grind so coarsely, even on the fine setting, that the beans look like gravel when they are done. I have mentioned it, oh, about 5 times to employees there, but they just sort of shrug and say “Yeah, that’s the way it is.”
LOL @ anti-trolls. 😉
I have found most grocery store grinders grind poorly. But who am I to talk, my grinder is on its last leg and I’m too cheap to fork out dough for one that grinds properly. I just keep grinding and looking at the thing and shrugging when my coffee tastes funny.
You’re right though – a store employee ought to at least commiserate with you at the poor quality of its service if they can’t do anything about it, not shrug it off.
Too bad we don’t rule the world!