Some of you may have heard from us the question, "What does Mister Donut do with all their donuts at closing time?!! Where do all the donuts go?!" We have pondered this question since our first Mister Donut experience. Well, tonight we have discovered the secret of the lost donuts.
After a long day's work we decided some Mister Donut would be delightful. Upon our arrival, we were pleased to see one of our former students working behind the register, as she often is. We are always excited to see her, but tonight our excitement was close to overflowing as we realized closing time was coming, and we could ask her (in English and a little Japanese since it was such an important question!) about the mysterious disappearances of the Mister Donut donuts.
Well, Travis bravely went up to ask her and found out to our astonishing disapproval that: "donuts wa gomi ni narimasu" = "donuts become trash." What?!!! Really?! This has been one of our deepest concerns since being in Japan. We just can't imagine all those delicious donuts not going into our stomachs!!!
As we were returning our tray to leave, with sadness in our eyes as we knew all those donuts would go to waste as the clock struck 9, our former student ran over to us and proceded in a broken English/Japanese mix to ask us how many of those preciously wasted donuts we wanted. Of course we were flabbergasted due to our excitement of possibly receiving more donuts, but also because we weren't quite sure if this would be a legal transaction!!?? What should we do?! After many "okays" "nods" and "smiles" we went back to the counter and picked out some of our favorite donuts. In methodical Mister Donut fashion our former student dropped the donuts into the "to-go" bag, rang us up, gave us a receipt with a charge of 0 yen!!, smiled largely, and waved as we walked out the door!
For the whole 5 minute bike ride home we debated if this was a moral decision or not! Angie insisted that our former student said "Prezent-o de" as she "rang" us up, which would prove that our actions were ethical as they were a present from Mister Donut, but we both still worried that our former student would soon become a former Mister Donut employee!!
To our relief, upon scrutinizing the receipt, once at home, we found that it truely read "present" so now we can eat our free donuts with a smile on our face and a good feeling in our tummies and hearts!
{Evidence #1: プレゼント = Present}
A big thank you to our former student for filling our tummies with JOY :D
1 comment:
what pretty donuts! I think the "to-go" bag looks like baby shower wrapping paper with the litle sheep on it. I LOVE DONUTS! Like LOVE LOVE.
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