the importance of cheese

I am anal retentive. I know this, and usually make something of an effort not to impose it on others.

I try not to be one of 'those' customers, so I limit my special requests when I eat out. Specifically, I only ask the specially trained sandwich experts at Subway to "please pick through, and give me tomatoes that aren't green". They do that for me. Sometimes it means that they have to go to the back of the store and get another bowl of pre-sliced tomatoes, so I feel as though I'm pushing my luck to ask any more of them.

That leaves the cheese.

They put all of cheese on the bun so that the big end of the triangle is facing the crease of the bun. Flipping half of the cheese triangles would result in full coverage of the sandwich, but they face all of the cheese slices in the same direction. That leaves cheese overlaps and blank spaces on the sandwich.

It's a whole ball of wrong, I tell you.

I considered not getting tomatoes in order to free up my one special request. The problem is, "Please flip the cheese so that it's more evenly dispersed" makes feel both geeky and high maintenance, as well as anal retentive.

I'm just learning to accept the anal retentiveness. I'm not ready to embrace geeky and high maintenance quite yet.

And so I say nothing. I accept a sandwich with faulty cheese placement; which totally messes with my chi, and leaves me with no choice but to soothe my frustrations with chocolate.

And that's how I've developed an addiction to Subway's M&M cookies. Surely, I can't be the only one.

Come to think of it, that's probably how they get away with charging so much for their cookies.

As a marketing scheme, it's actually kind of brilliant.