{"id":147,"date":"2010-03-22T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-dont-think-so.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-03-22T02:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:41:51","slug":"going-above-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Going above and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been known to trash the occasional food service worker or fast food chain right here on this very blog.<\/p>\n<p>But a few days ago I had an experience at my local Del Taco that really was going above and beyond in terms of excellent service.<\/p>\n<p>I had gone through the drive through lane to get a macho coke, I made it home with my coke, and less than 10 minutes later I spilled almost the entire cup of coke on the floor (carpeted floor, no less).\u00a0 I grumbled rather loudly as the only other thing to drink in the house was tap water, so I\u00a0 decided to run back to Del Taco and get another coke.<\/p>\n<p>As I get up to the drive through window, the person who took my first order started laughing.\u00a0 I said to her &#8220;I spilled the other one&#8221; and the person who had taken my second order hands me back my money and gave me the second coke for free.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that Del Taco drive through people have given me coke for free. It&#8217;s almost like they have an unerring knack for when I&#8217;m having a really bad day, and on those days they give me a free coke.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been known to trash the occasional food service worker or fast food chain right here on this very blog. But a few days ago I had an experience at my local Del Taco that really was going above and beyond in terms of excellent service. I had gone through the drive through lane to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/?p=147\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going above and beyond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[450,577,644,751,1132],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beverages","tag-coke","tag-del-taco","tag-drive-through","tag-fast-food","tag-laughing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}