“A steady flow of income beats being broke. It is better to be rich and ill tempered than poor and happy,” junior Thomas Peterson said of his job at KFC Taco Bell.

He cashiers, he works the drive thru, he makes and packages food for sale. Within the couple of months he has worked there, Peterson has had many encounters with what one would call unique individuals.

“We’ll be here all day,” was his immediate reply when asked about his weird experiences working at a fast food restaurant.

He is regularly asked if the meat in a taco is taco meat or beef. “Regularly” being eight times in the approximately three weeks he has been there.

“It’s always the same type of customer: roughly mid-fifties, typically a little flumpy and absolutely horrid teeth,” he exaggerated (a classic Tom Peterson storytelling technique) of the usual customer who asks about the contents of the taco meat.

“I’ll tell you one thing that is pretty great. We have this sandwich at KFC called the Chicken Little,” said Peterson, “and people really really like them. People order like five or six. The most I’ve ever seen is 20, and we had to put them in a taco 12 pack box to transport them.”

Another example of his unique fast food job experiences he provided is of one woman who racked up a $132 bill only to cancel it. She told Peterson she had to get her card out of her car then drove off. They already had her order packed and were unable to sell the food she ordered, for hygiene reasons.

Regardless of the crazy antics of the customers, “I love my job a lot, the people there are great,” said Peterson, “It’s honestly a great place to work.”