Breakfast at McDonalds

[MountainManWannabe]

I've got a pint of IPA in me with more to come, so here goes.

I'm usually up at 4:15 to go to work. I have a fairly physical job and like a substantial breakfast. I often, two or three times a week, don't have the time or energy to fix one so I'll stop in at McDonalds and order a sausage biscuit. On some days I plan to work through lunch to get things done so I'll order two.

Anyway, the woman behind the counter is getting way too familiar. She always has a big smile when I walk through the door and will loudly ask, "One or two this morning?!"

What she needs to realize is that buying breakfast at McDonalds is the gastronomic equivalent to buying porn. I don't want her to make small talk or even eye contact. Just take my order, take my money, put it in a bag, and I'll be on my way. I am not a regular customer and she does not know me!!!

If the same thing at Dunkin Donuts wasn't horrible and twice as expensive I'd think about going there.



That is all.

 

[bob1852]

I had the same "issue" as Hilbertos - I knew it got really bad when I was in the drive thru alone and the cashier asked "is your brother okay?" I said, "why?" and she replied "looks like he got in a fight."

I'm thinking "WTF? how does she know me, my brother; and on top of it, that he got in a fight?"

I get home, and there's my brother with two black eyes. He says "are you surprised?" I said, "nah, I heard about your fight from the cashier at Hilbertos."

Too many late night carne asada burritos I guess!

 

[brewmonk]

ok, both of those posts were FUNNY!

M-Man - it sounds like you need to keep mountain dew, granola, and peanutbutter in your truck.

az, that's just too funny. sounds like your brother got hiz own azz asada'ed!

 

[IrregularPulse]

I am not a regular customer and she does not know me!!!

hate to break it to you, but you go in 2-3 times a week and order the same thing.......Yes, you are a regular customer and god forbid someone taking your order tries to be nice and personable to you. I'd rather hear customers bitch about my employees being nice to someone then being rude.
You sir are an ass here. Someone is just trying to be nice, go crawl back in your crab shell.

 

[jgln]

I thought he was trying to be funny about it.

I like the buying porn analogy. Guy goes into Quickie Mart to buy porn. Waits for the moment when no one is in the store, goes to counter to buy porn. Says to himself, "OK, PUT IT IN THE BAG NOW!! We can deal with the money later!! And then be quick about it so I can get out of here before someone comes in!!

....not that I would know anything about that though.

 

[bob1852]

hate to break it to you, but you go in 2-3 times a week and order the same thing.......Yes, you are a regular customer and god forbid someone taking your order tries to be nice and personable to you. I'd rather hear customers bitch about my employees being nice to someone then being rude.
You sir are an ass here. Someone is just trying to be nice, go crawl back in your crab shell.

You clearly didn't comprehend his sarcasm. He was basically saying - do your job (provide me with breakfast) and leave me the **** alone.

I believe that you sir, are the ass here

 

[jpc]

I thought he was trying to be funny about it.

I like the buying porn analogy. Guy goes into Quickie Mart to buy porn. Waits for the moment when no one is in the store, goes to counter to buy porn. Says to himself, "OK, PUT IT IN THE BAG NOW!! We can deal with the money later!! And then be quick about it so I can get out of here before someone comes in!!

....not that I would know anything about that though.

With the intrawebz of today, do people really buy hard-copy pr0n any more?

 

[Walker]

I thought he was trying to be funny about it.

I like the buying porn analogy. Guy goes into Quickie Mart to buy porn. Waits for the moment when no one is in the store, goes to counter to buy porn. Says to himself, "OK, PUT IT IN THE BAG NOW!! We can deal with the money later!! And then be quick about it so I can get out of here before someone comes in!!

....not that I would know anything about that though.

, but....

We had a scavenger hunt one time in college. One of the things you had to have to win the hunt was a receipt from a store that had just two items listed on it:

(1) a porn magazine
(2) some vaseline or hand lotion

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I am siding with IP.

Regardless of how frequent you go to a place, if it's frequent enough they recognize you and know your order then, yes, you are a regular.

And she prolly thinks you go there to see her! Ya big flirt!

 

[jgln]

With the intrawebz of today, do people really buy hard-copy pr0n any more?

Don't know, maybe we should ask the others.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

With the intrawebz of today, do people really buy hard-copy pr0n any more?

Yes. Easier to aseparate twop asticky pasges thasn it is top wash a keyboprdf with twop keyas astuck topghether.

 

[Walker]

Yes. Easier to aseparate twop asticky pasges thasn it is top wash a keyboprdf with twop keyas astuck topghether.

Funniest post I have seen around here in a looooooooong time.

 

[GregR]

I'm with the OP. I hate it when people smile at me and say hello. who the **** do they think they are?

the worst is when my bartender recognizes me and asks how my day was. that nosy bitch doesn't need to hear about my day. just give me my beer so I can get drunk and glare menacingly at happy people.

when my mom calls and wants to know how I'm doing; that's the worst. just because she shat my from her womb and raised me doesn't I want to talk to her.

 

[Edcculus]

Stop going to McDonalds man. That stuff is ****. Literally

 

[MountainManWannabe]

Stop going to McDonalds man. That stuff is ****. Literally

That's exactly why I don't want attention called to the fact that I'm in there a couple times a week.

I do appreciate McDonalds as a monument to Capitalism. Take a food product. Remove any taste, flavor, or texture that could possibly be offensive to anyone. Make it cheap and convenient and fortunes are made.

Big Macs, Budweiser, and Wonder Bread. You've got to give them credit. They know how to appeal to the masses.

 

[jpc]

, but....

We had a scavenger hunt one time in college. One of the things you had to have to win the hunt was a receipt from a store that had just two items listed on it:

(1) a porn magazine
(2) some vaseline or hand lotion

One time? I heard that you did that weekly

 

[ChshreCat]

Dang, that'd be an easy scavenger hunt. 50/50 odds I have a recipe like that in my pocket already.

 

[Schlenkerla]

That's exactly why I don't want attention called to the fact that I'm in there a couple times a week.

I do appreciate McDonalds as a monument to Capitalism. Take a food product. Remove any taste, flavor, or texture that could possibly be offensive to anyone. Make it cheap and convenient and fortunes are made.

Big Macs, Budweiser, and Wonder Bread. You've got to give them credit. They know how to appeal to the masses.

Buy some jimmy-deans frozen samiches. Eight for $8.50 at walmart. Takes 50 seconds in the microwave in the morning.

 

[KCBrewer]

Yes. Easier to aseparate twop asticky pasges thasn it is top wash a keyboprdf with twop keyas astuck topghether.

Too freakin funny, thanks for making me truly LOL. The not so funny part is that I was trying to read it thinking "either this guy was in a real hurry or just can't type". By the end of the sentence it clicked.

+1 on the frozen sandwiches. I actually bought one of those toasters that makes an egg mcmuffin in 2 minutes, and now it only cost me less than $0.50 each. Then you don't have too worry about running into anymore nice people.

 

[Schlenkerla]

To the OP, I know how you feel. I just got my hair cut. The gal doing my hair would not be quiet. I did not want to be in a full blown interrogation.

 

[wulfsburg]

To the OP, I know how you feel. I just got my hair cut. The gal doing my hair would not be quiet. I did not want to be in a full blown interrogation.

I am not siding with those who work cruddy jobs, but you have to remember in this example and the McDonalds example, they are probably either chatty/nice people by nature. Their jobs do NOT require them to be overly friendly. It just requires for them to smile and take their order/provide a service. That being said, maybe making small talk helps their day go by faster.

Keep in mind, the majority of people in this country get treated great by companies like these because.....


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CUSTOMERS ACTUALLY LIKE IT!!!??? I work for a rather large telecom and customer service is part of my job. MOST people have more than just business to say, and there are only a small fraction who are emotionless, anti social, introverts that would interact with other human beings with as few words as possible.

Although customer service is part of my job, I don't believe that "Customer is always right bullsh*t" and I also believe that no company should kiss any customers rear end. But we know that money makes the world go round.

PERSONALLY..... the majority of the time I would rather see someone smile than say anything. I don't like to small talk with a lot of strangers, but I am a chatty person by nature. Perhaps that is why I did sales for 7 years? I don't like it, but I don't dislike it. I just do it.

My LEAST favorite thing about stores is an uneccesary , but required by company standards, generic greeting the second you open their doors.

Anyone ever heard of the gas station chain QT? Super successful here in Arizona, and they have to say Hi to EVERYONE who walks in and out of their stores. I find it extremely irritating, however that does not mean that the rest of the majority of the country doesn't mind it.

My PERSONAL opinion is... stfu and don't talk to me. But companies spend millions on research and studies that prove that is what helps bring in the green.

My guess is that the OP works construction???

 

[babalu87]

Be thankful that someone more desperate than you is getting up at least an hour before you do to be ready to serve your cranky ass a feckin sausage biscuit.............. or two

Oh
Dont lie, you get the hash browns once in a while too

 

[Schlenkerla]

I don't mind small talk but, the motor mouth on this gal was a bit annoying. It's like don't put doing a good job behind having a meaningless conversation. She acted as if she was on something.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

This says it all:

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

That's exactly why I don't want attention called to the fact that I'm in there a couple times a week.

I do appreciate McDonalds as a monument to Capitalism. Take a food product. Remove any taste, flavor, or texture that could possibly be offensive to anyone. Make it cheap and convenient and fortunes are made.

Big Macs, Budweiser, and Wonder Bread. You've got to give them credit. They know how to appeal to the masses.

I make my own egg-a-muffin sammich every day at work with sausage or bacon or ham, english muffin, egg, and cheese so I know what good 'McMuffin' tastes like and MDs McMuffins are fine. And those hashbrowns (and their fries) are just damn good, I don't care what anyone says. Their biscuits do suck though.

I know people don't want to acknowledge that they actually*gasp*like McDonalds but those two things plus their fries are good (when made to 'spec', which the retarded chimps at my franchise around the corner do with amazing consistency).

 

[Edcculus]

I make my own egg-a-muffin sammich every day at work with sausage or bacon or ham, english muffin, egg, and cheese so I know what good 'McMuffin' tastes like and MDs McMuffins are fine. And those hashbrowns (and their fries) are just damn good, I don't care what anyone says. Their biscuits do suck though.

I know people don't want to acknowledge that they actually*gasp*like McDonalds but those two things plus their fries are good (when made to 'spec', which the retarded chimps at my franchise around the corner do with amazing consistency).

No, nobody actually likes McDonalds. They have replaced "good" with "cheap". Now, we associate quality with cheap and fast. Why would you eat something that costs $1...really.

 

[Searching4Hoppiness]

If you dislike the McDonalds cashier, then don't ever go to a Jimmy Johns. It must be a company policy that they yell "Hello" and "Bye" to everyone who was in and out of the door. Only if I'm really hard up for lunch do I go there. And after getting my sandwich I try and sneak out so the entire restaurant doesn't have to hear some jack ass yelling over the other customers.

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

No, nobody actually likes McDonalds. They have replaced "good" with "cheap". Now, we associate quality with cheap and fast. Why would you eat something that costs $1...really.

It doesn't cost $1. It's a real english muffin, with a real egg, a sausage patty, and a slice of american cheese. Made fresh. If that's not what you're getting that franchise is doing it wrong.

I did try the new Burger King $1 egg-a-muffin and that was pre-made and totally gross. But the McDonalds sauasage mcmuffin w/ egg and cheese are good when made 'to spec'. Same with the hashbrowns.

Your last sentence illustrates your lack of open-mindedness on this topic (which was my entire reason for posting). That just because something costs a dollar (which these don't anyway) it MUST be bad.

 

[Edcculus]

I never thought I would hear "open minded" and "McDonalds" in the same sentence. Do you. I don't think I need to be open minded about mindless food for the masses. I'm all for culinary adventure, but c'mon, don't defend McDonalds.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

No, nobody actually likes McDonalds. They have replaced "good" with "cheap". Now, we associate quality with cheap and fast. Why would you eat something that costs $1...really.

Because it shouldn't even cost a fecking dollar!

And "some" of their food is actually good. Their fries a world renowned not because they are cheap but, because they are actually good.

Good and Good for you aren't always synonymous Ed.