It's nice to be appreciated

Me, to my colleagues: "I'm back!"

Colleagues: "That's nice. Were you gone?"

Me, to guy behind the counter at KFC: "A Zinger burger, please."

KFC employee man: [sincerely enthusiastic, I think] "Hi! Haven't seen you in ages!"

[points at the only other employee, of four, who I don't recognise]

"She's new."

[waits for his colleague to greet me like I'm a VIP; she appears to get the message]

 

The moral of the story is that I eat way too much fast food.