Curses, Foiled Again

There's a chain of "burrito bars" here in Denver called Chipotle. They're moderately nation-wide, I believe, so maybe you have one near you. if not, I'm sure you have a place like it near you -- they wrap you up a fat, honkin' wad of Mexicany stuff, and off you go.

At Chipotle, the burritos come wrapped in foil. And in case this is problematic for people, they've put instructions on how to eat your foil-wrapped burrito on all their napkins:



Alright, cute. But if my years of working on CCGs have taught me anything, it's that people will go to any lengths to misunderstand even the clearest instructions (sometimes because they're stupid, oftentimes because they're willfully causing trouble). Imagine these sorts of people tackling these instructions...

1) It's apparently very important to grasp the burrito with both hands before you open it, and hold it out as if in supplication to something or someone. Who? These horrible instructions don't tell me!

2) Okay, what exactly am I tearing off here? Just the foil? Or am I tearing off a layer or two of tortilla as well? I wish I could be clear on this point, but the illustration isn't in color.

3) Whoa, wait a minute! What the hell happened here? Are we sure we aren't missing steps here? There's a piece missing from my burrito! How did we get from step two to step three? And what's that stuff inside the burrito? It looks a little more to me like an apple turnover from McDonalds or something.

Actually, I'm probably not doing nearly a good enough job imagining ways to misinterpret these directions. That's the second big thing I've learned working on CCGs: no matter how many ways you can think of for someone to misunderstand something, they'll find another.