What if you could somehow combine your two favorite things? In my case, it would be Del Taco and Degrassi. Thus….
Imagine the drama and romance that goes on, the other side of the drive thru?
Rosa on the friers is way into Eduardo, the guy at the counter. But he’s totally gay and often hooks up with Trannies in the bathroom around back. Then there’s Milton, the crazy homeless guy who reeks of piss and constantly comes in and asks for a glass of water so that he can throw it on passing Hollywood types if they won’t give him change. He’s in love with Cashmere, one of the leggy brunettes who hangs out all the time across the street at Benitos. He doesn’t know Cashmere is a man, because he’s just crazy enough to buy her thinly veiled hotdog taco “female” look.
Back inside at the burrito stations, Jose works the sour cream gun, but what he really wants to do is move up to the microwave station. He just has to figure out a way to get rid of Chris, the stoner who has been at that station since the late nineties and is never going to leave because he has too much of a good thing going on with the old five finger discount he gets on the delicious Del Taco products which he consumes in epic proportions during the ninety minute lunch breaks he takes in his van, which pretty much smells like what one would imagine the Scooby Doo van would smell like if it actually existed in reality.
Then there’s Rachel. She drives thru just about every night like clockwork. Sometimes she rolls in (and by rolls, I mean walks) with some drunken friends sometime in the early a.m. hours. She usually orders the breakfast burrito, and she wonders why they bother to ask her if she wants hot or mild sauce, because, no matter what she says, they always give it to her anyway: in bulk. What Rachel really wants to do is work at the Subway across the street, but she can’t speak Spanish. So, she figures if she hangs out at Del enough, she might pick it up.
Finally, Juan works the drive thru. He notices this leggy brunette comes in to the restaurant all the time. He was raised in a strict Catholic household, and he feels the homosexual lifestyle is an abomination against nature and God’s good plan. He’s wise to the Benitos types that hang around here, and one day he’s going to give them all what they deserve. He’ll start with that one particularly mannish one, what does “she” call herself? Rachel? I hear “she” wants to work at Subway. Is she kidding? When she drives thru she barely speaks any Spanish at all! And she usually drives off without bothering to taker her change and or food. Jose hates her. He hates her so much, he thinks maybe he can drown her in hot and mild sauce which he stuffs into her bag, though she always says she doesn’t need any. Eventually it will overflow in her car, and she will drown or have a horrific car accident once it all becomes lodged under the brake pedal or something.
It’s time to start war over at Benitos.
*for those of you who don’t watch Degrassi, I will let you know that there’s this whole school rivalry/gang war between Degrassi and this other school which ended in the death of this one kind of unassuming, innocent character last season. That’s what I was trying to do with the whole Benitos thing if you didn’t pick up on it. I mean, two mexican restaurants right next to each other! Hello, people!
