Dairy Queen

I’m on a cross country road trip and I really, REALLY wanted ice cream so I stopped here. not really I e cream but their swirl cone with rainbow sprinkles is doable. It was the first time I’d been to a DQ with «food» (other than ice cream) and so I decided to try it even though I generally avoid fast food. Road trips inspire concessions. So I ordered a $ 5 lunch including burger, fries, drink, and small dessert which could be any number of things including the cone I wanted or a $ 1 Blizzard.
The food was AWFUL. I wasn’t surprised, so I didn’t complain. I mean, it’s fast food off the freeway in one of the vowel states so what could it be other than awful? Well, hot would have been nice, but even then it would have been the same crap, just warmed up.
So I go up to get my cone and the machine is broken. Seriously? At which point I told them about the state of the «food» they’d served and asked if I could get the Blizzard for free instead of the $ 1 seeing as I would likely end up tossing that too (haven’t had one before, but again, cheap fast food off the freeway in middle America). They actually said no. And with quite a bit of stink. For $ 1.
So I walked out without my ice cream– the only thing I’d gotten off the interstate for in the first place.
God bless Amerka.