I’d like to tell you a couple stories from when I took Ani to camp.

Your Daily Lex I told them yesterday, but here’s some more stories, specifically a story about a Wetzel’s pretzels.

I don’t go to Wetzel’s pretzels often, but listen, I like most, you know, good loving people.

I enjoy a soft pretzel.

And, uh, on my way home, I was stopping to charge at the Tannersville supercharger.

That was a mistake.

I should have stopped at the music supercharger, M-O-L-S-I-C, which I had stopped out on the way there.

That’s a faster, more powerful supercharger.

So I went to Tannersville just because it was a little further on my way home.

And, uh, that was the more opportune time to charge, but its chargers were worse.

So I had to stay there longer.

But anyway, they had a Wetzel’s pretzels and I’m like, what the heck?

And the Wetzel’s pretzels had one of those menus where it’s, you know, giant flat screen TVs that show the menu.

And it talked about how you could get a garlic Parmesan or a sour cream and onion or some third flavor that’s kind of in that family.

And I said to the woman behind the counter, Hey, what’s the best one?

What’s your favorite of those three?

And she said, Oh, well, we actually don’t offer any of those anymore.

Now we have these random flavors.

And it’s like almond something and crap on a stick and a salted or unsalted.

I’ll just go with the salted.

Thank you.

Um, but very weird to me to have a digital menu on a TV that you can’t update to show the correct things and also to stop serving some of your classic pretzels.

I also, I could Wikipedia this.

And in fact, I might, but I’m curious about, was it always called like, well, was Wetzel’s name really Wetzel?

Like, and if Wetzel’s name really was Wetzel, did he feel obligated or she to go into, uh, pretzels?

And the fact is Wetzel’s pretzels was founded in 1994 by Rick Wetzel and Bill Phelps.

I wonder why they went with Wetzel’s just kidding.

Uh, so yeah, it’s a pretty successful business as it turns out.

Uh, and I don’t know why they stopped doing their original flavor.

Oh yeah.

One of the flavors they mentioned was pepperoni.

That was one of their new flavors.

I don’t know what the heck they’re doing over there.

Crazy.

Uh, so that’s one story from my drive.

The other story for my drive involves the way there.

Uh, Ani started acting a bit unusual and I checked in like, are you okay?

And then it became clear we needed a bathroom break.

And for some reason, I was afraid to say so to me.

I don’t know why it was fine.

I’ve never been a parent who’s like, no girl, or we can’t stop.

Like it didn’t matter.

And we found a nearby supercharger, uh, to stop at.

And like so many supercharging spots, it had a, uh, uh, a strip mall that included a Panera bread.

So let’s go to the Panera.

I’ll get a, uh, which we used to be Obel back here in the U S uh, but I’ll get a coffee and you’ll use the bathroom.

We’ll use the bathroom too.

Cause why not?

We already stopped.

So I’m using their machine to buy the coffee because there is only one person in line, but that person is asking the poor person at the register, roughly 800 questions.

So I was like, I don’t want to wait in that line.

I’m going to use the machine.

And I say, no, here’s this iced coffee that I want.

And the machine’s like, okay, by the way, do you want us to include cutlery and napkins?

And I’m like, no, I think I can go with this coffee cutlery free, uh, check out one second later, they text me that my coffee is ready.

And I go grab the coffee.

And as I start to walk away, I see it’s one of those deals where like some nice cold coffee is oozing through the straw hole, if you will.

Uh, and we, you know what, on second thought in my mind, I would like a napkin.

So I turned around to spot where the napkins are.

And I see they have this plate out there that has some napkins on it.

Great.

Grab a napkin.

As I grabbed the napkin, they put, uh, a person behind the counter is putting food on that plate.

Like what I think is a plate where they’re simply laying out napkins to grab, which I recognize in retrospect makes no sense, is in fact a plate that they are prepping for a person who has ordered food, specifically the person with many, many questions.

Uh, and so I made contact with the person behind the counter.

I’m like, whoops, sorry.

I thought those were just napkins.

And I took one napkin.

There were still many napkins left on that plate.

Uh, and they didn’t have napkins out, which I guess is why you had to choose them on the machine.

Uh, but it was super embarrassing slash mortifying to take napkins from what turned out to be somebody else’s plate.

They didn’t think about it.

Right.

They just left that person with one fewer napkin.

I wiped up my drink and went on with my day.

Uh, but yeah, that was a quite the experience, but it kind of sucks.

Like I want Panera to be better than it is decent wifi, but not great food.

I think coffee was fine, but the food there I’m never impressed by.

I’m also not impressed by Starbucks food.

Maybe I’m the problem.

Nah, it can’t be it.

Anyway, if my name were Wetzel, I would also open a pretzel place.

Happy rest of your Tuesday.

Lex.