One Pink Doughnut!

Once my wife and I went to Dunkin Doughnuts, because she had a craving for a single cake doughnut. We pulled up at the drive through window, and a heavily accented voice issued from the order speaker.

Doughnut guy: "What can I get for you"?

Me: "I would like one cake doughnut".

The doughnut guy said this.

My wife turned to me and asked: "Did he say One pink doughnut"?

"Yes". I said. "I believe he said one pink doughnut".

I wondered if we were going to get a pink doughnut and what flavor a pink doughnut would be, and if we would meet confusion at the pickup window.

I readied my $0.85 and pulled up to the window. Doughnut guy handed me a paper bag with a cake dougnut in it. My wife flipped it over and saw that it was a pink glazed doughnut. Doughnut guy had hedged his bet and set it cake side up so that we would be satisifed with cake, or pink, and get out of his hair.

"We ordered a cake doughnut". I said to Doughnut guy.

"One cake doughnut, eighty five cents". Said Doughnut guy.

I shelled out the change as Doughnut guy walked to the doughnut rack and picked up a cake doughnut. He held it high in the air and showed us the doughnut from all sides. My wife gave him the thumbs up. He bagged it and handed it over.

I ate the "Pink doughnut". It was strawberry.

Three weeks later, my wife had the urge for another cake doughnut. We made the trip back to the same Dunkin Doughnuts, and as I pulled up at the speaker, I started to laugh. Doughnut guy asked for my order, I almost coulden't hear him over my laughter.

I managed to pull it together, and with my best elocution, said into the microphone:

"I would like one caaaaaake doughnut".

My wife and I debated what the result of my order would be. This time, she got her cake doughnut on the first try.