I went into the day expecting to be productive. I had a short math assignment and a little bit of programming to do before I could wring the final drops of spring break out of my Sunday. I woke up around noon because my internal clock is still screwy from vacation hours. After my normal "morning" websurf, I went to get lunch at the on the levee. I had a number 11, the Wild Turkey.
I like Roly Poly (at least as much as I can bring myself to like a nationwide sandwich chain) because their wraps taste good and contain all sorts of healthy ingredients. Their menu has at least 60 sandwiches. I ate at my hometown franchise at least twice a week during the summer. One of the servers even knew my name and would cheerfully say, "Hello, Brett. What will you be having today?" every time I came in.
I say this to contrast the poorly-managed Roly Poly on the levee:
- It is chronically understaffed.
- The food takes much longer than my hometown Roly Poly, even at non-peak hours.
- The paint on the walls is flaking off where giant vegetable stickers used to be.
- It is closed Sunday evenings, the one time that none of the dorms serve food.
I can set these problems aside because, as I said, the food is healthy and tastes good. However, I will not go back to that franchise after today. Today I got to add one more bullet point to the list: food poisoning.
I was about three quarters of the way through my number 11. My stomach started feeling funny, but I dismissed it as queasiness from eating so late. It was about 1:45 by then. I went home feeling fine, but two hours later I was lying in bed with chills and a thoroughly upset stomach. I stayed that way, drifting back and forth from sleep, for the next (I will have to guess here) five days. At first I thought it was one of my infrequent migraines, but the visual aura and headache never came. Just a persistant nausea. I am only now feeling good enough to sit up and type.
I am sure no one wants to read about a sick college student, so let me pose a question to my readers: what should I do about the food poisoning? Should I call the Roly Poly franchise? Send an email to the corporate feedback address? Contact the county health inspector? I am leaning toward calling the franchise; I am curious whether they heard of any other cases.
Update
I called the restaurant. They did not have any other reports. It may have been that the sandwich just did not agree with me.