Me and the wife are not too fanatical coffee drinkers, but once in a while we swing by at a popular local shop drive-in to grab a coffee for myself and an iced cappuccino for her.

"Hon, could you also order toasted bagel for me, please?" she asks me as I was queuing behind several cars and nearing the speaker of the menu board to order.

My wife continued, "...with garlic and herb cream cheese, please!"

From circularly-arrayed multiple punch holes of the free standing menu board came a somewhat hoarse voice of a female and asked for our order.

Seconds after relaying to the crew our order of drinks and a single toasted bagel, my wife pulled my right arm close to her side, smiled candidly and spoke, almost begging. She wanted me to order three toasted bagels instead.

"Ummm, excuse me!" with an increase volume to my voice this time, and neck almost pulled outside of the driver side window in an attempt that my change of order is understood.

"Can you make the bagel three instead, please?"

"You want one toasted bagel with herb & garlic cream cheese to make it into three instead. Is this correct, sir?" she confirms in a positive manner and with validating intention.

"Yes. Please!"

After that we drove ahead to the next window to grab our order, but waited a few minutes.

The order crew had a very big smile on her face when she opened the sliding window. Her lips - close to her mouthpiece, indicate a crew's dedication at her job: it kept on being animated while communicating to a patron next to me.

She then handed over our order in a red-ink printed brown paper bag. She thanked and wished us a great day.

As soon as the bag got on my hand, I slowly rolled away my car on the alley while I opened the fresh-from-the-stack crisp paper bag.

However, I noticed an unusually lighter weight of it for the quantity of bagels I ordered. I continued opening the bag.

To my surprise, I did not find two extra bagels, but a toasted bagel was made into three!

The only toasted bagel in the bag was equally cut into three pieces.

"Well, I guess this works along with my dieting plan, a third for me and two-thirds portion of this bagel for you, hon!" says to my wife as I laughed at the turnout of the situation. :)

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