Yesterday was Halloween and I met and paid dearly for an old sock that masqueraded as a lobster claw at the Citgo gas station.
It all started when we stopped for gas and the sign LIVE LOBSTERS AND FRESH SHRIMP caught my eye. I ran in and was directed to a lobster claw nearly the size of my coffee table top, for $32.00 - cooked. "How do you break into the meat?" I asked.
"Easy," the tiny clerk told me – "Just tap the shell with a hammer here … here… and here…." She pointed to three pivotal places on the giant claw, and I should have sensed at that moment she and the claw were in on this trick together.
After the eight minutes boiling time, I was glad for the break from defending why I paid so much for a giant claw. I removed the thing that stuck out all over from the biggest boiler in the house, and tapped once ... twice ... twenty times... not a crack....
Let’s just say that what began as a tap ended up with sledge hammer whacks from all of us, and finally one small peek hole sized opening.
We finally cracked enough of the monster claw to see we had just bought a rotton old sock – masquerading as a lobster at the Citgo Gas Station in Fairport
Does your business deliver what's promised, and it is easy to get to the meat you sell? Hey - yesterday was Halloween anyway … so maybe I’ll just chalk this claw episode up to getting "tricked" rather than treated. It went out with today's garbage, yet I do have one question....
Should I have brought the dinosaur lobster claw back, small hole and all, and handed the Citgo clerk a hammer to tap where she'd pointed for me to tap... just to make a point?
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