Mitt Romney Is Amazed By WaWa

[ProSense]

[madaboutharry]

1. Look at their expressions!

The word bubbles over their heads.... "WTF!"

[ProSense]

5. Or

"WTF is a 'Wawas?'"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Touchtone?

Romney apparently doesn't know the difference between a touch screen and a touch tone phone. He probably hasn't had to dial his own phone since the rotary dial went out in the 1960s and has his secretary do it.

[hootinholler]

26. It's the humming sound he makes while He's thinking about condiments

"HMMMMMMMM where is the Grey Poupon?" or maybe he said "Whee" or "Boop Beep Borp" each time he touched the screen.

I don't think he's ever used the word hoagie before then also. Two firsts in one day!

[politicasista]

3. Pathetic Pander Bear

"I'm amazed by WaWa y'all!"

[WCGreen]

4. Great, now the fast food kids will be on the streets....

[enough]

6. The dumbest part of this is that it's NOT "WaWa's." It's WaWa. Nobody would ever say

"I went to WaWa's." It sounds incredibly weird the way he says it.

[KurtNYC]

21. which begs the question -- Are they not prepping him right or is he not getting it?

He can't seem to pull off the whistle stopping chameleon thing that they have him doing.

[enough]

22. I keep wondering about his advance people. Are they as clueless as he is? (nt)

[L0oniX]

7. Push buttons cause blisters on rich peoples fingers. That's why they have servants.

[jp11]

30. I thought he liked it because it was one less human interaction Romney bot had to deal with.

Silly poor humans with their problems.

[KamaAina]

8. Robme is full of Sheetz

Sheetz being a competing convenience store chain in PA.

[jmowreader]

38. Christ, don't take him to a Sheetz

He will lose his fucking mind in a Sheetz. "They had a whole restaurant in this gas station! And you go up and order food, and they cook it right there! And it's really good food!"

'Course, if we wanted to see Romney's head explode we could have him do a whistlestop at the Oak Grove 70 Petro truck stop in Oak Grove, Missouri.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

9. Great fodder for campaign ads, just like GHWB's barcode epiphany in '92

Somebody should find archived news station clips of all those '92 barcode ads and put them online in one convenient place. The copy for anti-Romney "out of touch" plutocrat ads has already been written--20 years ago.

[sufrommich]

10. "You use a keypad,you touch this,touch this,touch this."

Someone should tell him about the new fangled self checkouts in grocery stores,it would blow his mind.

[Gormy Cuss]

45. A "touch-tone" pad

You know, like a 1960s telephone.

[Warpy]

11. You can go in and get prole food without ever having to

face another living human being. It's the rich man's fantasy and he probably thinks the food is shit out by machinery in the back room, too.

All that place did is fire order takers and turn the touch screens over to the customers, instead.

[Ruby the Liberal]

12. Dear Lord, this man is an idiot.

[Jim Lane]

32. I also didn't recognize "WaWa"

There haven't been any stores by that name anywhere that I've ever lived.

Romney has probably eaten at Friendly's any number of times, but I don't think that chain has ever had stores west of Ohio, so quite a few very intelligent people would be unfamiliar with the name. They probably don't even know what a Fribble is.

[Ruby the Liberal]

41. I didn't get the impression that the name confused him

but that the ordering system was a mystery.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. I've nevr heard of WaWa until now

So it's like a 7/11

[jmowreader]

39. Pretty much, yeah

[drm604]

46. Similar, but better than 7/11.

WaWa has excellent delis in their stores. Very good soups and sandwiches.

[rug]

14. The next time he says wawa will be November 7.

[FarLeftFist]

15. And he wants to control our nuclear arsenal??

[RedCappedBandit]

16. Push a button, there's your sandwhich! Can't explain that!

[BumRushDaShow]

17. OMG

(I was just at one this morning getting some Italian hoagies)

[spanone]

18. 'just a regular guy' what a putz...and a horse in the olympics...

[annabanana]

19. funny funny funny. . (clueless twit) . . .n/t

[FSogol]

20. He should add a WaWa to his new mansion next to his car elevator.

[drm604]

23. WaWa (NOT WaWas, There's no S!) has had those touch screens for over ten years.

I remember ordering like that back in the 90s. He considers it amazing? Does he still use a flip phone?

[1monster]

24. What the heck is a Wawa. I hate being on par with Romney, but

I've never even heard of Wawa (except for Baba Wawa) until a day or two ago...

[BumRushDaShow]

25. It's a local PA convenience store chain

like 711. I expect there are some in the surrounding states too (NJ & DE). They sell deli sandwiches and hot foods (including hot dogs, grilled sandwiches, etc) and coffee, as well as some quick pick-up grocery items (e.g., milk, bread, soup, eggs, cereals, snacks, bakery items, etc). They also sell gift cards, paper products, local newspapers and magazines, etc.,and of course cigarettes.

Edit to add examples of the touch screen order displays:





Ironically, I was just in the one near me today and noticed that they had actually updated the touchscreen program to a new version with a new look. Not sure when they had switched to the new program but it could have been one of those "June 1st" type roll-outs.

Also as a sidenote, after you are done with the touchscreen order, it prints out a little receipt that you take to the cashier and then they stamp it as "paid" and you take it back to the deli counter to hand in when your order is ready.

[hootinholler]

28. I wonder if WaWa knows there are no actual condiments in their condiment list?

[BumRushDaShow]

31. They aren't using that screen interface anymore

at my Wawa as I noticed today. Didn't really pay attention to see if they still called something like onions "condiments" - although theoretically, they will put all those items on that screen in little single-serving cups on the side if requested...

[1monster]

43. You mean, you can get a receipt from a touch screen SANDWICH machine, but you can't get one

from a touch screen VOTING machine?

[BumRushDaShow]

44. Ironic, eh? n/t

[hootinholler]

27. Nice to see a tech savvy candidate

For the record...

A touchtone keypad:


A WaWa Touchscreen:

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

29. His people probably did their best to keep him from saying WeWe

I could see him slip with "I loved the touchpad WeWe..."

[Lucy Goosey]

33. This is all kinds of awesome.

I mean, I have no idea what WaWa (WaWa's?) is, we don't have it where I live, but the ...beat... and the looks on their faces when the Romney clip was over were absolutely priceless.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. The last time Andrea had that look

was after that dumbass advisor for Sanatorium started going on about female contraception being a woman putting "an aspirin between her knees".

[Lucy Goosey]

36. ...I thought of that, too!

I'm not exactly Andrea's biggest fan generally, but a small part of me will always love her a little bit for her "I'm going to have to catch my breath" reaction to Foster Fries's idiotic contraception recommendation, and now for her reaction to Mitt's reaction to WaWa.

[bluedigger]

35. Well, they are pretty special.

There's something like them... everywhere...

[Blue Owl]

37. Mitt's a man of lunch meat miracles

n/t

[Swede]

40. I bet on his drive to work,he stops for one of them pastries things (whose name slipped his mind)

with his morning coffee.

[sabrina 1]

42. Maybe Democrats have a mole in his campaign.

Because whoever told him to do that is either stupid, or did it on purpose to make him look out of touch. Which wasn't hard apparently.

[alp227]

47. Even David Shuster was skeptical about MSNBC's presentation of Romney's remarks...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002867022