Yesterday, the writers went to Subway for lunch.<\/p>\n
About a month ago, during their Scrabble<\/i> promotion, I won a coupon for a free “Flatbread or Regular 6″ Sub.”<\/p>\n
Note the order of the words. We will come back to this.<\/p>\n
I ordered a Subway Melt Flatbread. It had bacon on it, and I’m not a fan of bacon, really, but I wanted to try something different. Ham and turkey and bacon. Lettuce and onion and tomato and honey mustard sauce. All on a flatbread. Lunchtime perfection, I thought.<\/p>\n
The manager of the store told me that I could not use my Scrabble<\/i> coupon. “I can’t accept this. It has to be a regular flatbread. The Subway Melt is a premium flatbread.”<\/p>\n
I looked at him blankly. “So?”<\/p>\n
“It has to be a regular flatbread.”<\/p>\n
“That’s not what the coupon says.”<\/p>\n
“Yes, it does. It says ‘regular’ here.”<\/p>\n
“It says ‘regular 6” sub.’ It says nothing<\/i> about the flatbread.”<\/p>\n
“It has to be a regular sub.”<\/p>\n
“It’s not a regular sub. It’s a flatbread. I get that if I wanted a sub for free, I’d have to get a regular sub. But the coupon says ‘flatbread.’ It doesn’t say ‘regular flatbread.’ It doesn’t say ‘premium flatbread.’ It just says ‘flatbread.'” And I read aloud the wording of the coupon — “Flatbread or Regular 6″ Sub.”<\/p>\n
Don’t quibble with me, I’m a writer, and I will<\/i> beat you to an incoherent pulp with words.<\/p>\n
I got the sub, not for free, but for a dollar, which was the difference in price between a Premium Flatbread and a Regular Flatbread. Which, considering he wasn’t going to take a coupon at all<\/i>, was a minor victory.<\/p>\n
I didn’t even know there was<\/i> a difference, that Subway had “tiers.” Of course, every time I go in Subway, it seems like they have a new pricing structure. It makes eating fresh difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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