worst service ever

i just had my first negative wendy's experience. the food was still fantastic. it would take much to have the junior bacon cheeseburger taste like anything less than what it really is: the greatest fast food burger of all time. i'm talking service. i'm talking about the worker that was just gabbing on her cellphone behind the counter. i'm talking about the mongoloid that they had running the register. the lady that kept giving the drivethrough worker the wrong food items. if i was into ineptitude, i would have been in awe. but i'm not into that, so my simple order took close to 5 minutes to execute. this was my favorite part of the wait:

mongoloid at register: i forgot to charge him for the other triple classic
manager: then charge him for it and get it made
mongoloid: i'm sorry, i didn't charge you for that other number 5
(a minute passes) manager: so you going to fix his order?
mongoloid: i didn't charge him for that second number 5
manager: well, he ordered it. get it for him.
mongoloid: sir, i didn't charge you for that other number 5. do you still want it?
customer: well, i wanted 5 minutes ago when i ordered it.
mongoloid: sir, i'm going to have to charge you for it if you want it.
customer: that's good, cuz i'm going to pay for it if i order it.

it was fucking classic. i don't think i've ever witnessed a conversation that scored higher on the unintentional humor scale.

unrelated topic, isaac began talking about time and how our perception of it's passing is good enough to show that it is not constant. this is flawed. the varying "speeds" (i use the term loosely) we percieve time as passing is a necessary but not a sufficient premise for time to be non-constant. example: temperature. i find that anything over 80 degrees farinhiet (sp?) is equivalent to the inner circles of hell, while others find it to be quite enjoyable (i'm convinced these people have chronic hypothermia and can't keep their core temps up). our perceptions of how hot we think it is has nothing to do with the fact that the temperature is still 80 degrees. the same goes for time. just because we feel it passing at a different "rate;" that is no indication that it actually is. if you want to argue if time is linear or non-linear, now that's a game i'd be into

here's the thought for the monday:
in a traffic jam, it's always your lane that goes the slowest. to simplify the model, we'll call each lane it's own frame of reference. this means that if i am in the left lane, it is moving slower than the center or right lane. now assuming the universality of the hypothesis, we are forced to the conclusion that every lane is moving slower than the other 2 lanes (in their frames of reference) i don't have my modern physics text with me at work, so i'm stuck trying to recall formulas and remembering if this is possible under current physic models. cuz i can see other lanes moving faster, or even my lane, in traffic jams. does this mean my frame of reference is moving at ridiculous speeds compared to the others (on the magnitude of .5c or higher)? or am i seperated by great distances between the lanes? or is this murphy law complete and utter bullshit? i want answers dammit. i need to know the physical validity of this statement. if it doesn't happen all the time, i need to know that it is at least physically conceivable...

and does it bother anyone else that nelly has the two top singles in the country right now?