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October 7, 2025 37 mins

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The guys reunite after a brief hiatus to discuss one of their biggest dinner debacles ever, involving a Wing Stop order gone terribly wrong. They delve into the chaos that ensued when an order was mistakenly sent to a location 70 blocks away in a sketchy neighborhood.

• Debating whether boneless wings are actually wings or just glorified chicken nuggets
• Discussion of a lawsuit against BW3s for falsely advertising boneless wings
• Passionate debate about which restaurant chain has the superior ranch dressing
• Jay's claim that he "invented putting ranch on anything but a salad"
• Story about ordering a "large ranch" and receiving a comically huge container
• Tony's nightmare gas station experience with terrible customer service
• Shared frustrations about declining service quality at fast food restaurants
• Tales of Taco Bell's mysterious "cash only" policies and drive-thru priorities

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Top Shelf Stories with Jay, chris and Tony.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
What's up everybody.
How you doing, Chris Good?
Hey, Jay, Haven't seen you fora little bit.
Yeah, it's been a while, Tonyhow are you?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Dude, I'm fantastic.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
For the listeners.
We're coming into your earshere on a Tuesday for, like what
, 40 episodes in a row.
We've been doing this for 40weeks in a row.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Is it about right?
How many episodes are we in?
We stopped doing seasons.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now we don't know where the hell we are 30, 38, 30
, maybe 36 in the thirties, highthirties.
It's pretty impressive.
No, I you know, every week,every time I try to, I upload a
new one.
I look at the last one.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm like, holy crap, we're already at 30.
Soon it's going to be 100 topshelf stories with jay, chris
and tony sounds like thebeginning so I didn't know
really what to talk about today,but I think I got an idea here.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I wanted well before we get into a subject I just got
to bring up the fact that wehad probably one of the biggest
dinner debacles, uh, in thehistory of the show.
For those of you that don'tknow, me and chris get dinner
and we make jay watch us eat ityeah, it's really weird.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I don't know why we like having them watch us every
week we're like pull up a chair.
Jay, watch us eat and theywonder why I'm late we always
ask him if if he wants any right, as it is almost gone yep, no,
but the thing is they alwayshave one or two wings left and
like why don't you finish it?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
I don't know, why don't you finish it.
I can't, I can't breathe rightnow.
Ain't too much?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
that's a trick by the wing industry.
They sell, sell packs andtypically in an odd number.
It can't be split very evenly.
Yeah, you get like a 15 wings.
Well, I had seven, he had seven, now there's the last one why
do wings in the bone cost morethan wings not boned?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
supply and demand supply and demand is a real,
easy answer, because it's notreal.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Chicken well wing not boned isn't a wing demand.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Supply and demand.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, there's a real easy answer for that Because
it's not real chicken.
Well, wing, not boned isn't awing, it's just a chicken, it's
like chopped up whatever's leftover.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's mainly fillers.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's hard to put fillers in a boned chicken Well
isn't it supposed to be like thechicken you buy, but the bone's
taken out and kind of no, thenthat's fucking a lie.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I just heard Someone is in the process.
It is like a suit from 2022.
He's suing BW3s because theycall them boneless wings Really,
and they're not from thechicken wing, it's just a
chicken breast piece of meat.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
That makes sense to me, and he's like this is false
advertising.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
You're putting out $7.99 wing all you can eat and I
don't get any wings.
I got chicken nuggets coveredin barbecue sauce.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
The reason why I'm so apprehensive to get them is
because I think they're theactual meat that comes off the
bone and they chew it up andfucking put it in.
I've probably eaten like one ortwo in my entire life Bone in
chicken, wing, bone out, I callit bone out.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
So there's a whole level Sounds like Saturday night
.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
There's a whole level of what these wings could be,
these boneless wings.
It could be just like yourTyson chicken nugget where it's
like mechanically engineered,removed meat from the ends of
pieces and tendons and whatever?
They hydrate it, dehydrate it,add a bunch of flavoring, smash
it up into a shape, call it awing and then deep fry it and
then cover it in sauce.
Sometimes it's like literally achicken tender, which you want,

(03:59):
or breast meat cut into piecesthat are then called boneless
wings, and that makes a littlemore sense because the wings are
part of the chicken breast.
Can we, can we agree?
We can agree on that.
So if you want to call that partof the wing cause it's like the
muscle part of the wing kind offine.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
At what age did you actually understand that it's
not an actual buffalo?

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, it sounds like you just found out today that
it's not pieces of the wing.
No, I found that out todayBecause if someone deboned my
wings and fried them, for methat would actually be pretty
fucking delicious.
That's what I'm saying, like ifthey pre-deboned it and then
they deep fried it.
It would still look like a flat, but there's no bone in it and

(04:47):
you can eat it like a cordial.
It's chocolate.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's kind of like taking the meat out of the crab,
like they're trying to donowadays, and I actually bought
that just recently.
That's fake crab meat too,though.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
A lot of times they mix that shit with.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Not the fake ones.
It's an actual seafood companythat has crab legs in a
concealed container that is outof the shell dude.
You never seen thosecommercials on on facebook and
it's fully cooked.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
They're like wild alaska or something.
Yeah, yeah, something like thatfreeze dry and they're just
lock them and send them to yourdoor I remember once upon a time
me and you driving togetherhaving an argument about
imitation crab leg what wherethe fuck you don't remember this
?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
was it dirt?
Was it the day we went to theguns?
Gun, no, this we were.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
We were in racine and we were driving together I
don't know if we were heading tolunch or something, oh, for
work.
Yeah, went back when we used towork together and, uh, we had
like a half hour argument aboutwhat imitation crab meats made
out of.
What did I say?
Because I don't remember youthought it was real crab?
No, I didn't.
You thought it was real crab,ground up and reshaped which

(05:59):
some of that they do.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Do that, I think it's mostly no, it's pollock.
So then also they make it outof fish and then they color it
to look and taste.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Pollock is a fish and they grind up its meat because
it's a shit fish to eat.
It doesn't taste bad.
No, they grind up its meat.
They add flavor to it to makeit taste like crap.
They add a thousand things toit, put it in a gigantic sheet.
Roll it up like a joint.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's like seafood string cheese.
It is Exactly the same thing.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
But some of them can be better than the original.
Like I had some lobsterrecently, it was not that good.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I had some lobster too, you're right, I didn't
really enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Mine was not disgusting.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Mine was not that great, I couldn't eat it.
I got it at one of those wherethey cook in front of you, At a
hibachi Hibachi.
Chop it up, lobster.
And I'm like, yes, and I took abite of it and I'm like this
isn't lobster, what he took itout of the thing it was lobster.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
It's disgusting.
Okay, tony, before we getstarted here, what happened
today with dinner?

Speaker 3 (07:06):
well, first off, something got fucked up with the
ordering.
Uh, I I actually I ordered andsent chris to go get it, which?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
is, which is a practice that occurs because I'm
driving.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
It happens man, it happens you always send him a
receipt because we kind of taketurns a picture receipt into our
our facebook chat group alwaysyeah, well, I read it.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's ever since he'd been doing that, ever since
I went in there and was askingfor an order for tony, but he
used his legal name anthony andthe lady and I had it out until
I finally realized it wasanthony yeah, so I send over the
receipt and so when you orderon the line, you remind me of

(07:59):
the never mind when you order onthe, it makes you put in your
zip code.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
So I put the zip code of the establishment we are in
right now.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Which would make sense.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
So my orders automatically would go to the
wing stop that's directly acrossthe street it's literally on
the same street, like almost thesame street yeah, like jog
there and back and wouldn't bebad yeah, if you cut through one
fucking, it would be

Speaker 1 (08:33):
faster to walk than drive to.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's so close, pretty much, pretty much so so every
time I've ever ordered wing stop, it's automatically gone to
that location because of the zipcode.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
And you've got a zip code, you guys have gotten that
shoot a lot, yeah, a bunch oftimes, lots of times.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I mean, for some reason, more than I can count
the order went to a place, to adifferent location that's almost
70 blocks away.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
But your zip code where you are here does actually
have an odd shape.
I'd imagine, and probably couldbe, could have been that one.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
So hey, chris, when you went in there, you're like
order for Tony.
Well, I was in there.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I said, hey, I got an order for Anthony, pick
up Anthony.
Well, I was in there.
Yeah I said hey, uh, I got anorder for anthony, pick up
anthony.
And and she's like okay, shestarts pulling checking bags.
There's like 10 bags lined up.
She starts checking bags andshe's like okay.
And then she looks at thisboard, which is a new thing.
There's a tv screen with allthese names and your order
number and if you're on theboard, that means you're either

(09:37):
in or it's coming in, or cookedand ready to go.
She looks at it a couple timesand she's like I don't know, I
can check my main computer.
And I'm like, wow, okay, checkthe main computer.
And as she's doing that, Ipulled out my order number and I
look at it and I'm like yeah,it says Anthony.
I showed it to her.
She's like, hmm, okay.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Did you have the same picture and receipt that he
sent you?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, and then I started looking at it and I'm
like oh, this son of a bitchordered on the one that's at
5400 this street, not 12400 thisstreet.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
So you saw the actual address.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
They're on the same street.
They're just 70 blocks away.
This happens to be 70 blocksinto the heart Well, not quite
the heart, but towards the partsof the city.
You don't necessarily want tobe 70 blocks into the heart well
, not quite the heart, but intotowards the parts of the city.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
You don't necessarily want to be in.
When I saw that reply from tonythe receipt, I'm like why would
he send?
Was chris over in the in the inthe bad part of town right now
getting food?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
why is he?
Sending it down there he evenasked he's like you want to pick
it up at the one that's by yourhouse there and the one over
here, and I'm like the one youknow, he's like obviously the
one over here, right, and I saidyeah, and that's that other
one's not by my house either,necessarily any closer well, I
know you have gone to there topick up because you feel like
it's the better of the two, Ithink that it also gives me the

(10:56):
opportunity to just grab itbefore I go home and everything.
It's right off the freeway andthen choo, choo, choo.
But yeah, that is a betterwindow.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
So you get here, I don't know 40 minutes late, with
ice cold food.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, so today, yeah, I get to this place and she's
like, yeah, it's not there, andthen I notice it's the other one
.
So then I leave and then thelady who I was in the way of
while she patiently waited forme to talk to this lady well,
because she couldn't get at thestraw can.
Then she's outside getting inher car and I'm like, well, I
now have to wait for this lady,because I made her wait for the
damn straws inside while I wasin her way.

(11:33):
She was in her way putting herfood into her car.
Then I drive, I get there, getto this place and they don't
they have this like drive-thru.
I'm like wingstop doesn't havea drive-thru, but I'm like going
through this thing though so Igo through it.
There's a person in front of meand it's it's radio silence for
like three or four or fiveminutes as this lady's just in

(11:55):
the line and no one's come tothe window or nothing, and it's
like this bulletproof glasswindow with the bulletproof
glass food service circle thing,you know, and yeah.
So then she, finally the lady,comes, gives this lady like six
bags of wing stop and like threecontainers of cups, and she
takes off and goes into the linefor the uh drive-thru at taco

(12:17):
bell because apparently thiswoman's food wasn't enough.
But I pull up and there's likeI'll show you guys now, now that
we've ate.
I don't know if this would havegrossed you out, tony, but as I
was waiting there, I'll sendthis in the chat here so you can
look at it on your own devices.
There's a piece of a wig on thefloor outside of it.
Sure, wasn't a head attached?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
to that wig.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
But anyway.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
So then I finally get my food Looks like a rat.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
And yeah, I drive back all the way over here and
instead of being there at 6.30,I was here at 7.
And the food was ice cold andit was at an even lesser quality
.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Ew, there's two pieces of wig.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Wingstop is probably one of the lesser quality ones
you could possibly go to.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
So when you order from wingstop you got to pay
ahead of time, right?
Yeah, oh, so you, because tonydid say when chris said hey, you
fucker, this is on 56th street100 fucking blocks away.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
He was ready to give up and abandon it he's like
abandon the order, go to tacobell.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
He didn't want me to die in the ghetto.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
And then chris, for some reasons, like I'll, I'll
this this way stop is in theshopping center that is holding
on for dear life.
I don't know why it stillexists, but it does it's like a
hundred dollars a month it's allsubsidized and been revamped
and it looks beautiful.
It's a great little areathere's also a starbucks in that

(13:36):
.
There's all kinds of things inthere.
There's every store you canimagine a midtown center.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
You shouldn't be like hey, since you're down there, I
think there's a starbucks theretoo.
Can you grab me a, a nice latte, but like I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's a higher crime area and it's a place.
When you get into a place oftown where no one's taking care
of their own yards, you knowyou're in trouble.
That's where I, that's where Igrade it like if you're not
picking up trash garbageeverywhere in front of your own
house.
Yeah, then what is what isgoing on in your neighborhood?
Like that's a telltale sign ofa broken up losing it.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
If I need to know if I'm in a safe neighborhood or
not, I go to a gas station andswipe my card at the pump, and
if it asks me for my zip code, Ijust fucking keep driving no,
that's just bps no you go to agas station and if you have to
hold what you're buying up tothe fucking glass for them to
scan it, that's when you knowyou're at a bad neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
No doubt, like I'm holding everything I'm buying.
I got like six chips.
I got a fucking couple sodas.
He's like, okay, pick that oneup.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Pick that one up, but I'll tell you throughout this
whole experience and this iswhere I'll go with the story I
was gonna tell a different story, but I'll tell this one.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I I actually received pretty good customer service
overall, like the woman who hadthe first gas there the first
probably figured that you were asecret shopper in upper
management because you're theonly white person that's ever
been to that wing stop well, notthe other one we got a white
guy coming through at the otherwing stop when I was totally
wrong like somebody's boss is atthe door.
I don't.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, I don't know, but even at the other wing stop
I was totally just disruptedtheir day for no damn good
reason for a minute and a halfuntil I figured out my life and
left Like I didn't help themeither.
And they were polite.
This woman, after she finallycame to the window, she was
polite.
She was clearly overworked.
It seemed that she was the onlyone in there.
There was all these peopleinside.

(15:31):
They had bulletproof glass onthe inside and on the outside.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Half of them were like dancing to music.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Half of them were working.
I don't know, but the food wasfine it was fine it was cold,
because it was.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
I picked it up 20 minutes late and then he put in
his trunk 10 minutes here sothere was a little when I was
ordering because I usually don'tdo shit on the interwebs uh, I
got into this debacle aboutranch.
So normally when I order onwing stop, you select which type

(16:05):
of dressing you would like,which I mean is how he's ranch
at wing stop.
They got the best ranch in thegame they do have the best ranch
.
No liars, liar buffalo, wildwings.
That shit's not even a realranch.
I don't give a shit.
It's better it's not.
It's not even a real ranch.
I don't give a shit.
It's better, it's not it's noteven close.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
It could be made of little babies, bro, if I and I
don't care it tastes delicious.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
If I blind taste tested you, you would never pick
Buffalo, I guarantee.
Then do it.
We should do that, I guarantee.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
I would know it immediately, because that taste,
it's just like it wakes me upit like wakes me up.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
It's like caffeine.
This is totally like oh, mydad's a ford guy, I'm a ford guy
, my kids are gonna be ford guysno see, you're just stuck on
buffalo wild wings because youlike shitty food and cheap wings
.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Uh, not taking into consideration the quality that
wingstop brings, I order waymore ranch, always like fucking
giant amounts of ranch justbecause I know I'm gonna use it,
because later on a differentmeal.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well, that's because buffalo wild wings ranch is
better than that ultra processed, shitty hidden valley you got
in your refrigerator I think itis the hidden valley no, no, not
even close, but but wing stopis like what ranch was designed
to taste like.
Yeah, I would agree.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I had it before and it's not.
I still think.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
We should do it.
It'll be a top shelf stories.
Presents a three dimes tastetest.
Throw back three dimes tastetest.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
I guarantee 100%.
I'll even put $100 down.
I will be able to Depict theBuffalo Wild Wings If you go on
YouTube.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
If you go on YouTube right now and search three dimes
reviews, you can find usTasting and rating all Fast food
Dipping sauces.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
That was like four years ago.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
It's true.
So typically when I orderWingstop we get the little cups
of ranch and we get two a person.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, is this the proper amount of ranch?
I think one each.
One each I think it's one, eachit's either one, maybe two, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
I might get an extra.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
But I had the option in the screen I was in to only
choose one.
I couldn't up my order of ranchto two or four cups, I could
only get one.
So I'm scrolling through theoptions and there was an option
for a large ranch and I'm like,okay, well, I'll just get the

(18:43):
large.
And since I can't get twosmalls, and, uh, I get to the
the checkout screen and and thenit gives me an option for
add-on.
So I'm like, oh shit, I'll getone more ranch cupped in how
much does your ranch cost cometo, didn't say well so the
little one was like a buck 50 orsomething wow, you ordered a

(19:05):
like half quart.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yes, it was a half quart of ranch, it was a half
I'm looking at this, you know,yeah, from from fucking people
normally get like a pasta saladfor a for a potluck lunch.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
It was like a custard full ice cream container of
ranch A pint.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
If you fucking poured it into a measuring cup, it
would be a cup and a half ofranch.
Yes, like who the fuck?

Speaker 2 (19:33):
I would love.
I'll take it every day.
I'd be happy, I'd be excited.
It'd be like a birthday present.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
See, I've ordered extra cups of ranch and it's not
.
I never got the big fucking cupI get it pw3s big cup.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
It was just too much, but this was a comical amount
yeah, that was more than I'veever seen, more than I thought
you ordered soup.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
so now I I texted my wife and I said you got to come
up with some recipes for therest of the week that involve a
lot of ranch Dude.
There's no, we need ranchrecipes.
I got to go through this ranch.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I could take that container of ranch out in two
meals.
Easy, that's how much ranch Imean.
I douse my shit.
Well, it's in the fridge, youcan take it home with you or
drink it on the ride home.
I don't know.
It's not BWG, it's not the same.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
You'll find out, you'll be like oh shit, I do
remember you telling me how youinvented putting ranch on pizza.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
On everything.
Yeah, I invented putting it onanything but a salad.
I was an inventor because I'vebeen alive for 40-some years.
Ranch has only been around for38.
This kid was Right.
When it came out I'm like, wow,this stuff is so good, let's
just start putting it on otherthings.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Jay's taking his little jars with the pears and
the fucking refried beans andstuff and he's dipping it in
ranch before he's eating his.
My mama could never get me toeat but I told her about the
ranch and ever since then Ididn't even need the airplane.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I used to cut up different blocks of cheese into
a fucking bite size snack stripsand dip it in ranch.
There's a lot of things thatwould do so you're telling me
before you invented dippingthings in ranch.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
All the veggie trays that were sold in supermarkets
just came plain.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Cream cheese.
Those were the full block.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Cut open veggies that have been sitting on the
counter for two and a half days,you take it home and you got no
dip.
I guess Jay didn't inventdipping shit yet.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
No, the dipping shit for vegetables was always a dill
product.
It was a dill made dip that hadthis really long green shit in
it.
That's how vegetables used tobe with dips Ranch, until I
started talking about it aroundmy mainstream peoples.

(21:56):
They're like whoa great idea,let's put it in.
We are the force of fact.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Don't forget to give your veggies a ranch.
We're out.
Thanks for coming to our show.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
You got to look at it , man.
It started in Milwaukee.
I would do it when I'm on stage.
I'd be like watch this Take aslice of pizza from the back.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Look at this broccoli .
We'll play your venue, buthere's what we're going to need.
We're going to need somesee-through cups of ranch and
slices of pizza from lastnight's order.
It's very important it'syesterday's pizza.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
I mean, I'm telling you that's how it happened.
Okay, that's how I got popular.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
So we ended up getting ranch sauce from the
ghettoist wing stop I think isin the city.
There's probably like 29locations in the city.
This had to be the worst one.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
The thing is, though, is I don't know that if I
ordered a large ranch from anyother wing stop, it would come
that big, that it would be thatsize.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Why else would a wing stop have that cup?
Maybe they don't serve?

Speaker 2 (23:05):
soup.
Maybe they ran out of the cups,the bigger size portions they
get ranch and they're like graba soup cup.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
It was so big and there was so much liquid in it
they had to tape the lid on youthink it was for, like, the
catering orders, and they'relike, oh crap, just give them
that, that's probably what theygive you, because you can order
like a dozen little corn cobs.
That's probably what they comein.
I don't know about that.
I don't know.
It was fucking comical.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Well, I was going to tell you guys in this story,
although I think our storytrailing off is better.
This is okay.
I went to the gas station.
I don't really go to the gasstation very much, but I'm like
I need something quick.
I went to the gas station.
I don't really go to the gasstation very much, but I'm like
I need something quick.
I'm going to grab a slice ofpizza or something that's
rolling on those little rollingvacation beach benches or
whatever they're called therollers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I go into the gas station.

(23:55):
Place is a mess, it's a fuckingmess.
What?

Speaker 2 (23:58):
gas station, a Speedway, obviously not a quick
trip.
It was a mess.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Everything's for sale , everything's on sale, and
there's stuff on every angle ofevery.
they got like six tables withdiscount you can't even see her,
the cashier, when she called methat she was ready for me.
So I just heard a voice fromthe other side of the car
Exactly, and she's like whereare you?
Okay, over here.
So I get my stuff Right.
And I had two rollers, threethat was three dollars.

(24:29):
Then I bought a one dollarcandy bar for my kid and I
bought some nicotine pouchesthat were three for 199.
So my total was six dollarsplus tax.
So she's doing the thing and Igotta like punch in my phone
number to get the discount onthe things, and then I gotta not
contribute to the christianmiracle foundation or whatever
they want you to round up to, Iput pennies and then you gotta

(24:52):
like press a button that youdon't want to pay with points or
do want to pay with points forwhatever thing that you got or
whatever.
And then she's like okay, and Iput my and I and I can't
there's no total.
No, I put my little thing, beepding.
She's like you want a slip andI said sure, so she gives me a
slip and I look it's $11,.
I'm like wait a minute thisdoesn't add up.

(25:15):
I'm like I only got $6 worth ofstuff here.
She goes oh, those, that's anold sign on those nicotine
pouches.
I'm like, oh, that'sinteresting, I don't okay.
She's like, well, see, and thenshe shows me the receipt.
She's like look, see, you got$4 off of this because it's
supposed to be $11.
Now you got this off of thisand four of this and whatever.

(25:35):
I'm like that's great thatyou're showing me this on the
receipt.
But I ordered these things.
They there's $6 worth of thingsand I paid $11.
Like, can we just fix it quick?
She's like well, so you don'twant these things.
I'm like, no, I want exactlywhat I got.
That's shown on the shelf ofwhat I got.
She's like okay, whatever.
And then the phone rings.
She goes to reach for the phone.

(25:57):
But luckily some other ladygrabbed the phone.
You ran out.
No, but I'm standing there.
I paid $11.
I'm waiting for my change.
And then she's like punching inall this stuff and scanning all
these things and it's been likea minute, two minutes.
She's trying to figure this outand I was ready to just be like
whatever, I'm just going to go.
Then this lady who answered thephone is frolicking in the back

(26:20):
, whispering in all thesedrawers, and she's like yelling
and like this is I don't knowwhere it is, and this and the
other thing.
And so then she calls mycashier over hey, where are all
those credit cards?
And then they're over there for, like I don't know felt like a
long time, but it's probablylike 30 seconds, and I'm still
standing here.
She's got my stuff now becauseshe was re-scanning it or

(26:42):
something.
So I got nothing and I paid 11bucks and I'm just standing
there and I'm like, uh, excuseme, can your cashier finish with
me?
And then do that.
And she's like, listen, we gota emergency on our hands.
I'm like cracker.
And I said that's great, Iappreciate that.
But the phone rang after she wasalready doing my crap and I've

(27:06):
been standing here and she goes,I don't care.
And I'm like, well, that's fine, she goes, I'm the fucking
manager and I don't give a shit.
Or she didn't say shit, but shedid say fuck.
I'm like wow, well, they're notgonna care when you give me
your business card and I let thespeedway know about your
service and the cashier comesback and she's like fixing the
thing and the lady's like Idon't care if you call the

(27:28):
management.
I really think it don't.
She's crashing all this stuffin Jesus.
She's, she's what dude?
She's yelling back at me morein this other thing.
And then the cashier figured itout and she gives me six
dollars and oh yeah, $6 andchange back.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
From what.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, I gave her $11.
My total should have been $6plus tax, but she gave me $6
back, which was more than Ishould have got back.
She gave it to me in cash, eventhough I paid with my credit
card.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
And.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
I told her.
I said sorry, lady.
Thank you so much for your help.
I'm sorry you have to work forthis psychotic woman.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
There's no way that you were not yelling back at the
girl yelling at you.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Oh, no way was I.
Why would I be yelling?

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Because she wanted to get you out of there, so she
gave it more change.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
No, I wasn't yelling at the cashier, no, not the
cashier, the other manager, oh,the manager lady never came by
me, she, me, she was stillscreaming and yelling and you
just scream out loud back to her.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, I didn't I.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
the only time I did is when she called her cashier
over, and then I was waiting andI'm like, excuse me, can your
cashier please just finish whatI'm doing here and I can get out
of here?
Listen, we got a freakingemergency here.
So the moral of that storyalthough I rushed it a little
bit is that the customer servicein this world is dead man.
Oh yeah, oh, for real, go toany Burger King next to you.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Burger Kings have gone downhill Burger Kings.
Burger Kings have gone waydownhill.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
I don't think Burger Kings were ever on the hill.
Yeah, they can't go downhill.
I think they just fell to wherethey should be.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
They somehow get some money.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
They like rebrand and put new paint jobs and
different like logos on theseats, and then the stores are
just still terrible.
So I've never been to a good bk, so I'm uh, you know, I got
this thing where I tend to go inplaces I I don't like going
through you sound like exactlylike going in fucking dad.
Go through the drive-thru, it'sfucking faster well it is, and
there's nothing that makes memore angry than when I take the

(29:32):
time to park my car.
Walk in, go, go, order my shit.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
They're helping everybody and they help
everybody in the drive insteadof you, because they're timed.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
They do that shit on the bay at the banks too then
tony get with.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
the fucking times Go through the goddamn drive-thru,
and then a couple times I'veactually had to say something
and ask why I'm being penalizedfor not being a lazy piece of
shit.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's not being lazy, you just want more control in
your life.
So you go inside and you wantto make sure you're looking at
these people in the face,letting them know this is what I
want.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
I want a number one extra cheese but you gotta think
all them cars are like peoplethat were in front of you in
line when you got in the store.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
If it's just one person usually not, they're
still taking orders, you know.
But yeah, shit like that.
Or when they answer the phoneand fucking start something
while they're in the middle ofhelping you, it's, it's the most
annoying thing ever I was withthis burger kings or somewhere
else, anywhere, it happenseverywhere, man burger kings,

(30:34):
mainly burkings, are the worst,though I I I cannot disagree
with you at all I went through adrive-thru on taco bell two
days ago.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Kfccs are pretty bad I don't.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
I didn't know there were any lots.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I went through a drive-thru on taco bell the
other day and I went through itand I started ordering and all I
heard was I'm sorry, we'reclosed.
Middle of the day I'm like,fine, I'm glad I didn't get it
anyway, because getting a littlefat they're not gonna give you
a taco bell if their mentalityis to say that, trust me, I'm
not going to argue with them tomake me a meal, because I don't

(31:11):
want spit with my cheese.
I don't want spit with my soda.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
I don't go to Taco Bell pretty much ever.
Yeah, it sucks.
I legitimately get sick everytime any of their food but it
clears you out it clears yourbody.
It's like I don't get.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I don't get diarrhea it's like spraying afrin in your
nose when you get a noseinfection I feel like that's
just some weird stereotype likehow asians can't drive.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
You're the one I didn't start that.
I wasn't the originator of that.
I wasn't like you with ranchyou might have been, you just
don't know it but uh, every timeI've ever been to taco bell and
it's always been this onethat's out in a good
neighborhood, it's not like somerundown piece of shit like a

(32:04):
lot of them they tell me thatthey are only accepting cash at
this time they talk about cashscam which, uh, which I find to
be mildly suspicious yeah, Ilike when they ask cash card,
how much is it?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
you order your food at the window and you say, oh, I
get this, that and the otherthing.
You're like all right, firstwindow please.
And you're like well, how muchwas it cash?

Speaker 2 (32:29):
or charge uh cash we'll do it for 14.
It's always even.
It's always an even number whenit's cash dude five.
Even it's got to be exactchange, see put it, put it in
this cup and then put a lid onit and then give it back to me.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, when they ask you cash or card and they ask
how much you got what are youpacking?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
can I see open your wall?
if you got cash, well how muchyou got, I'll just take that.
Yeah, right there, that 20It'll cover your $46 meal.
Yeah, taco Bell is not myfavorite place, but a gas
station story real quick is.
I told this before to you toois like one of the times I pull
up to a.
It was a quick trip, so they'rereally strict there nowadays

(33:21):
and they do things right.
Yeah, good neighborhood, clean,friendly service.
And it was one of those dayswhere you just you feel like you
want to just get everything.
So you get a shopping cart nota shopping cart, but like one of
those whole basket basket.
So you go in there and I mean Ipicked out two or three
different sodas, a couple chips,you know, like a hot dog, one

(33:41):
of my little special drinks, andthen something you know,
something I think I filled out ahalf gallon ice cream just
quick snack and some Pepsi.
You know, I threw it all inthere, I put it up to the tender
and I forgot I didn't have mywallet on me.
So I'm like, oh shit, I have$38 in food here standing right

(34:04):
in front of you just on yourcounter and I'm like I'll be
right back, I'll get my walletin my car, go to my car.
It's not there, take off, wouldyou guys take off as well?
You just left.
You didn't tell her you'recoming back.
I said I was coming back in thestore yeah, you didn't tell her
you're not no, I said I'll beright back.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
I think I left my how many of your items were
perishable.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
All of them.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Like the sodas are fine.
Those can go back in the coolerthe hot dog.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
you can't the hot dog's ruined.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
You're done.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
They probably would have given you the hot dog if
you would have had, Especiallysince you picked it up off the
hot dog roller with mouth thedrink, the drink I I poured,
yeah, that's paired.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
So like I didn't go back to that quick trip for like
five months because I thoughtyou know, maybe you had to
outlast the employees yes,there's always new employees.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
There's a fucking picture of you walking out the
door by the fucking tape measure.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
He didn't steal anything, but he didn't pay for
his shit and didn't come backyeah, wasn't that the quick trip
that's like at the end of yourblock?

Speaker 3 (35:09):
yeah, yeah, yeah.
So now you had to drive likefour miles out of your way to
get to a quick trip there's aquick, which doesn't matter.
As somebody who used to employyou, I know you're not in a
hurry to get to work they'relike bars in wisconsin quick
trips under every fucking cornerdude they can build a quick
trip faster than they can doanything.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Also, I look at this fucking gas station I thought it
was something else and it sayskt.
I'm like the hell's k.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Oh, it's another quick trip yeah, you go in it,
you drive past it.
One day you see like a concretetruck there and you're like, oh
, I guess I didn't even realizethey sold that corner plot it.
I must not have been by here ina while.
Look pouring concrete already.
Wow they, I wonder what's goingin.
And then you come home fromwork and there's a line to get

(35:53):
gas at the fucking quick trip.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
You're like what the imagine how much this
motherfucker that made this.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
He just made gas stations more elegant eloquent,
it's a franchise bro anybody canbuy a quick trip every, every
area of town has its like top ofthe line gas station but
unfortunately not town, but likeit's a speedway in your
neighborhood.
No, I'm saying the country likequick trips taking over this

(36:23):
area, although but there.
But have you ever been to CaseyGeneral's store country?

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Those are great stores Sometimes they can be a
little gangster.
They're owned by 7-Eleven.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Are they now, or they probably sold out.
They used to be originals.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
I always thought that Speedway was the best because
they gave you the best points.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
No, they were.
Super America was the best whenit was Super America.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Oh my god remember Super America.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, Super Mom's food, Super Mom's donuts, Super
Mom's ice cream, Super Mom'scandies it was the best.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, super America, super America, we never stop.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Dude TV commercials for them?

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Do you even remember the slogan, the ringtone, what's
it called?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yep, so that was another episode of Top Shelf
Stories.
We're going to round it outhere.
We like to keep it under anhour.
I don't know where we're at now38.
Thanks for listening.
Keep telling your friends aboutit.
We got t-shirts.
If you find a way to reach outto us, you should do that.
We're on the Twitter under TShelf Stories.
You've got to search the letterT Shelf Stories and that's

(37:28):
about it.
Thanks for listening, guys.
We'll see you later.
Huh, do this again, huh.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Never forget your local quick trip.
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