Mank You Very Much

Late last week most of my department went out to lunch together. We ate at the Spaghetti Warehouse, and apparently I caused some kind of offense. I'm not sure what I did, but "Mank You" was written across the top of my ticket.



I admit I'm not hip on all the happenin' lingo that the youngsters enjoy these days. Still, I'm a bit disturbed by this one. I have a few guesses what "Mank" might mean, and the variety of possibilities makes my head spin.

I just can't imagine what I did to deserve to be Manked. I didn't throw very many noodles on the floor, I shouted less than Big Dawg and I stopped dancing on the table after everybody ran out of dollar bills.

Then again, maybe it's not an aggressivly negative thing. It might only be some sort of mildly abusive statement, I suppose. It could mean "I'm watching you, punk", or "I expected a better tip, dork", or "We're cool, but if you come any closer I'll cut you."

I just don't know what to think. The best Google could find for me is that Mank is the name of a city in Austria. I wonder what "Mank" means in German?

*sigh* I'm gonna worry about this all day.