Completely unrelated

This post has nothing to do with anything, it's just a funny story someone told me a while ago.

So, some of you may be familiar with the Einstein Bagel chain. I'm not sure if this still goes on, and I'm pretty sure this may be a good reason they may not do this anymore, but at the Einstein Bagel stores, they bake all the bagels there in their ovens. If a timer went off for an oven, and there happened to be nothing in that particular oven, it was protocol to yell "Fire in the hole!" to notify coworkers that a hot, empty oven baking nothing is unsafe.

So imagine what happened when a group of World War II veterans stopped by for a little get-together at their local Einstein Bagel restaurant.

Sure enough, one of the employees yelled "Fire in the hole!" and sure enough twenty septuagenarians hit the dirt.

Now, if you have ever worked in a customer service position, you can sympathize with someone who said they just got yelled at by an old guy. Can you imagine, however, getting yelled at, one after the other, by twenty old guys? 20 times in a row hearing, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?! We're veterans!"


I was reminded of this by, of course, Grandpa Simpson. "That all happened in 19-diggity-2. We had to use the word 'diggity' because the kaiser took away our word for twenty! I chased him down to get it back, but I gave up after diggity-6 miles."

I love that line.