Sonic

O-​Ohh-​Wow… Poor Sonic! You must have been really really really really and really bad before I guess!!! That’s why the two reviewers in 2013 gave you only One Star each! lol
Well, time flies and things change… I have been to this Sonic several times this year. The service was prompt and the staff members were good. Even though I don’t really like their food, it’s not their fault since people have different tastes. :”) I am not a fan, but believe me they are not that bad. :“D I do love their Sonic Blasts and Floats. :”)
P. S. This Sonic (Address No. 4922) is located on Barksdale Blvd, but NOT near the Barksdale Air Force Base. There are 2 – 3 Sonics around here and sometimes people get them confused. :”)

BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! This place buh-​LOWS when it comes to customer service! Buh-​LOWS! Seriously! Worse than having rude service, to me, is having NO service! Like, you are completely invisible. You are transparent. You do not exist. You… are the Hollow Man. Oooooooooh. Man, this place sucks! I am so fired up, because this is my one cheat day that I give myself. I am on the anti-​inflammatory diet by Dr. Andrew Weil, and it is awesome and it is really working, but I give myself one day a week to cheat, so I don’t go off the rails, and also just to slowly wean myself from bad eating habits… So, the one thing I have been dying to try was a pretzel dog from Sonic… I saw the commercial, it worked its’ magic on me, I wanted it, I held my on to my craving all the way to today, and I’m like today is the day! Yes, today is the day… and I happen to be over in the purgatory of Shreve City (helping my mother-​in-​law put a bed together, man, I’m a great son-​in-​law!) and I instantly think, okay, I’m going to go hit up the Sonic on Kings Hwy (my go-​to Sonic) but then as I start steering down E. Washington Street, I’m like, hold up, I’m actually closer to the Sonic on Barksdale (It’s newer and I always forget that it’s there), so I swing the Mazda around and point it over the Shreveport-​Barksdale Bridge) I’m starving. My craving is crawling all over me, I hang a hard left into the Sonic on Barksdale’s parking lot, and there’s hardly anybody there and NO ONE, no wait at all, to get to the speaker box in the drive thru, as a matter of fact, there’s no cars anywhere on the other side of the building, or in the drive thru. I cackle and high-​five my craving and wait to be acknowledge by the voice in the box… nothing…pure silence… quiet…a minute goes by… then two…
I speak out of my driver’s side window, «Hello…»
Nothing. Still silent… another minute drifts by, I call out yet again, «Hello?»
Nothing. Silence.
Three or four minutes have gone by. It’s 1:15 on a Saturday afternoon. Is the speaker box broken… Shoot, are they open? Are they closed for some reason? There are no cars even behind me, or in the drive through.
I drive up to the window, and I see workers inside the restaurant, but nobody at the window… I wait… I am looking at the workers on the inside. It looks like they’re having a conversation… I sit and wait… No acknowledgement… Nothing. At least another minute has passed that I have waited in vain and will never get back. I am burning gas and daylight. My craving elbows me, and says, «Let’s go. Don’t worry about it. Maybe it’s a sign of some sort?»
I don’t know if I pulled up in the middle of a robbery, or if this place just has the WORST customer service ever, but I guess I will have to watch the news to find out… and I will have to do so, sans pretzel dog… and there better not be any of those dang Sonic commercials on during the newscast, either!

After two previous poor experiences, I went tonight to do a good deed and participate in a fund raiser for a little boy with kidney cancer. Alas, my experience again was poor.
My first bad experience occurred when my bf brought home shakes. They had some kind of plastic threading that was white and blended in with the ice cream. I noticed the threads and showed him that he had them in his as well. I brought them back and they replaced them… so we gave them another chance, which led to stomach issues for several days.
Tonight they had a fundraiser and I wanted to help out. I knew they would be busy, so I did not mind the wait. But when I got my cherry limeade it tasted like someone literally urinated in it. I don’t know if they need to clean their equipment or what but it was so disgusting I almost threw up.
So yeah… I am done with this Sonic.