Following a conference my husband and I had attended one evening, we stopped to get a bite to eat at a newly opened fast food restaurant nearby. It was our first time there. We went through the drive-through and nothing on the screen was in English. Not knowing what to order, I saw a picture on the menu and was interested in getting the soup that was shown. When I asked the employee what was the name of the soup, I assumed they understood which picture I was referring to and said yes to getting it.
After our order came out, we parked at the establishment in an area overseeing the city lights. Initially, as I took the soup out of the bag, I was impressed with not only how they wrapped the cup of soup keeping it warm and preventing a mess if it spilt, but also the warm, homemade, soft and crispy tortillas that came with my meal, however, the soup was NOT what I thought I had ordered.
When I looked at the receipt, we were supposedly given what we were told was the soup in the picture. It definitely was not the same soup. I was frustrated. I was not happy with the mixup, yet, I acknowledged that I ordered what they said it was and I didn’t want to go back and dispute it, so instead I was willing to give this other soup a try.
As I began eating the yummy tortillas with a guacamole dressing at the same time feeling bummed about the soup, it was a tender mercy when off in the close distance I saw a firework display. It was beautiful and as I focused my attention on them, the distraction quickly faded away my disappointment. The display went on for several minutes all the while my husband and I were eating our food. It was quite romantic and the setting disrupted my negative thoughts and feelings about getting the wrong soup.
Although the soup I was given was not what I had wanted, it was warm and had good flavor. In the end, it was a tasty meal and I would like to go back to the fast food restaurant again, however, I’ll go inside.
When have you been frustrated or bummed about something not happening the way you hoped it would and through a pleasant diversion and distraction, your disappointment quickly faded away?
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