Cuffy points awarded to the Coffee shop at Birches Valley, for slower than slow service.
Twenty five minutes for two cups of take-out coffee.
I'd sent Tenshon on the errand whilst Finbar and I ate the picnic, time passed, the sandwiches were gone and we were getting bored hiding behind the corkscrew tree carving. When I went to search, his face said it all, he'd clearly lost the will to live.
Some ranting loudly came from me in the form of 'what the hell could take this long', 'get a customer comment form', 'ask for a refund'....
Anyway, he asked to speak to the manageress, and told her what better more effective practice would be, not serving each customer one in turn with orders of bacon rolls, chips etc, then going to the next customer, and asking if anyone is just waiting for drinks......
He also informed her that two of the SIX waitresses on service should not be discussing which of them was more lesbian than the other