24 Hours

We are having a luncheon in work today. One of our research volunteers is leaving after one year. His visa is up so he needs to return to Switzerland for a few months. We decided to order wraps and salads for lunch. We called Stop n Shop yesterday at 9am to place the order. The girl who answered the phone said we had to call 24 hours in advance. Since we wanted to pick up the food at 7am, it was 22 hours in advance. She would not take the order. I questioned her as to why. She had the food and the wraps, so why couldn't she make the order. Even if I had called the day prior, the order would not have been put together until yesterday evening, since the pick up time today would have been early. Nothing would have been a special order. Nothing needed to be cooked. She said that the only reason was the 2 hours. I did not argue as I knew she was locked into the 24 hour rule. Instead, I called the deli on the corner and gave the order to a small business. Next time I will do that from the start.