Yes, I am a sandwich artist. I’ve worked at Subway for nearly a year now. One of the most frustrating things to me in my job: customers who don’t know how to order a sandwich! They usually preface their requests with phrases like “This is going to be really easy” and then proceed to say “I want three sandwiches, with everything on them, and no pickles on the first one, no tomatos or jalopenos on the second, and everything on the third. No, wait. Make that the second. Okay?”

Here’s the deal. Besides being way too much for me to remember, the customer needs to realize that I am the one making the sandwich. I will ask appropriate questions at the appropriate times. Before vegetables, these are the questions I ask:

What size sandwiches are you getting?
What kind of bread would you like?
What kind of sandwiches are these?
What kind of cheese do you want?
Would you like this toasted?

I can’t memorize a vegetable list when I have to deal with all that other information first.

Well, that’s some frustration. I’ll post more later.