sugar cones?

Today when I was ordering (delicious Blue Bell) ice cream, I asked for mint chocolate chip on a sugar cone. The man behind the counter grabbed a cone and asked if I wanted one or two scoops. I said one and then I said (I shouldn't have said this - this whole "letting words slip before really thinking things through" thing is costing me. (: ), "and I wanted a sugar cone, but that's ok - the wafer is fine." You see, he was holding a wafer cone. I didn't really care. Honest.

"This IS a sugar cone." he says, as though I haven't been ordering ice cream cones since I was five.

"What?" I was confused. Was he pulling my chain? Or leg? Or anything else? I know that sugar cones are just skinny versions of the waffle cone. Everyone knows this. They're sweet and sugary. The wafer cone he was holding was, well, wafery. Anyone could see this. I glanced at his coworker. I was given a "...what?" kind of look, like there was nothing wrong.

"Huh..." I said, "I always thought those were wafer cones." (thinking: clearly that's a wafer cone, good sir. That's a wafery McDonalds special. I buy those in grocery stores. They're labeled "Wafer Cones.")

"No, we don't have those - we just have sugar cones and waffle cones...um did you want a waffle cone instead?"

"No, that's fine. I guess I was just confused. I'll have a single scoop on a sugar cone, thanks." (thinking: or wafer cone, as the case may be. I never thought I'd be having this discussion.)

Some things, while they're not worth an argument, ARE worth laughing at and recording for posterity.

I thought this was one of them.

ajr