Well, I guess I can't go back to that McDonalds!

[yoopermom]

So I pull up and order a carmel sundae, no nuts, pull around to the first window and pay (nothing tricky so far), pull up to the second window to pickup, and notice that the "shift manager" has her arm extended with the sundae in it like we're doing a relay race, I swerve a little to avoid picking her arm off, she seems to think I've managed to grab the sundae, it gets dropped, I stop, and she looks at me like I'm the DUMBEST person she's waited on all day! Not one word to me, just looks over her shoulder and says, "another sundae, STAT", and says to me, "pull ahead to the waiting area" (even though there's no one behind me). She then RACES out and around to pick it up, holds it disgustingly away from her, throws me a lovely look, throws it in the garbage.

THEN sends out a poor young girl with a sundae for me WITH NUTS!! Guess she showed me now, didn't she?

Makes me almost think I should have aimed for the wrist.

Terri

 

[brockash]

So I pull up and order a carmel sundae, no nuts, pull around to the first window and pay (nothing tricky so far), pull up to the second window to pickup, and notice that the "shift manager" has her arm extended with the sundae in it like we're doing a relay race, I swerve a little to avoid picking her arm off, she seems to think I've managed to grab the sundae, it gets dropped, I stop, and she looks at me like I'm the DUMBEST person she's waited on all day! Not one word to me, just looks over her shoulder and says, "another sundae, STAT", and says to me, "pull ahead to the waiting area" (even though there's no one behind me). She then RACES out and around to pick it up, holds it disgustingly away from her, throws me a lovely look, throws it in the garbage.

THEN sends out a poor young girl with a sundae for me WITH NUTS!! Guess she showed me now, didn't she?

Makes me almost think I should have aimed for the wrist.

Terri

That's a great story and made me laugh so hard. I so have been there with fast food places. Sometimes I can't help but wonder WTH's going through their heads

 

[JessicaR]

See now I would have pulled around again and handed it back to her and tell her it has nuts, no nuts.

She released the sundae into thin air. not your fault. BUT, very funny!

 

[DarthKTrava]

I used to have a boss who had a mantra of "hold the food out the window and put it on the car" to keep the drive-thru lane moving as fast as possible. Now granted our store only has one window and then you get that customer who has to dig for change and take their time doing it.....

 

[Tina]

Too funny! My McDonald's gives the nuts in a seperate little pouch now, so no nuts is no problem.

 

[swald91]

See now I would have pulled around again and handed it back to her and tell her it has nuts, no nuts.

She released the sundae into thin air. not your fault. BUT, very funny!

Yeah....but at that point I'd be afraid they "tampered" with it somehow

 

[yoopermom]

I would have taken it more seriously, but I LOVE the older ladies who usually work there in the a.m., they've been there forever! This gal was my age and was so *serious* that I couldn't help but laugh! What was the old song, "Get over it..."?

Terri

 

[MichelleVW]

See now I would have pulled around again and handed it back to her and tell her it has nuts, no nuts.

She released the sundae into thin air. not your fault. BUT, very funny!

Me too.....

 

[momrek06]

See now I would have pulled around again and handed it back to her and tell her it has nuts, no nuts.

 

[keerymom]

I have a funny McDonald's story...

I went through the drive-thru on my way to work one night. I should note that there is nothing but vending machines at my work place. Anyway, I ordered a plain hamburger. I get to work, ready to start my long night. I open my "hamburg" to find my roll, inside out (the white part on the outsides), with only 2 slices of cheese in between.

How did a plain hamburger suddenly become a cheese sandwich? Yuck. It was a hungry night at work.

 

[kimmar067]

So I pull up and order a carmel sundae, no nuts, pull around to the first window and pay (nothing tricky so far), pull up to the second window to pickup, and notice that the "shift manager" has her arm extended with the sundae in it like we're doing a relay race, I swerve a little to avoid picking her arm off, she seems to think I've managed to grab the sundae, it gets dropped, I stop, and she looks at me like I'm the DUMBEST person she's waited on all day! Not one word to me, just looks over her shoulder and says, "another sundae, STAT", and says to me, "pull ahead to the waiting area" (even though there's no one behind me). She then RACES out and around to pick it up, holds it disgustingly away from her, throws me a lovely look, throws it in the garbage.

THEN sends out a poor young girl with a sundae for me WITH NUTS!! Guess she showed me now, didn't she?

Makes me almost think I should have aimed for the wrist.

Terri

....sure gives new meaning to the words 'fast food'....

 

[kimmar067]

I have a funny McDonald's story...

I went through the drive-thru on my way to work one night. I should note that there is nothing but vending machines at my work place. Anyway, I ordered a plain hamburger. I get to work, ready to start my long night. I open my "hamburg" to find my roll, inside out (the white part on the outsides), with only 2 slices of cheese in between.

How did a plain hamburger suddenly become a cheese sandwich? Yuck. It was a hungry night at work.

...that WAS funny!

 

[bananda]

Too funny! My McDonald's gives the nuts in a seperate little pouch now, so no nuts is no problem.

we dont even get nuts anymore. i think they disappeared when the whole peanut allergy thing happened.

 

[tippANDbb]

Now see I would of made them make me another sundae without nuts. That story made me laugh thanks for the laugh I needed that lol.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

I would have taken it more seriously, but I LOVE the older ladies who usually work there in the a.m., they've been there forever! This gal was my age and was so *serious* that I couldn't help but laugh! What was the old song, "Get over it..."?

Terri

This one?? LOVE this song!!

I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin' don't blame me
They point their crooked little fingers at everybody else
Spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma's too thin and your daddy's too fat

Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin' and cryin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

You say you haven't been the same since you had your little crash
But you might feel better if they gave you some cash
The more I think about it, old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers, kill 'em tonight
You don't want to work, you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing

Get over it
Get over it
If you don't want to play, then you might as well split
Get over it, get over it

It's like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You're makin' the most of your losin' streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak

You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down
***** about the present and blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child and kick it's little ***

Get over it
Get over it
All this ******* and moanin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

Get over it
Get over it
It's gotta stop sometime, so why don't you quit
Get over it, get over it

 

[MinnieMe87]

So I pull up and order a carmel sundae, no nuts, pull around to the first window and pay (nothing tricky so far), pull up to the second window to pickup, and notice that the "shift manager" has her arm extended with the sundae in it like we're doing a relay race, I swerve a little to avoid picking her arm off, she seems to think I've managed to grab the sundae, it gets dropped, I stop, and she looks at me like I'm the DUMBEST person she's waited on all day! Not one word to me, just looks over her shoulder and says, "another sundae, STAT", and says to me, "pull ahead to the waiting area" (even though there's no one behind me). She then RACES out and around to pick it up, holds it disgustingly away from her, throws me a lovely look, throws it in the garbage.

THEN sends out a poor young girl with a sundae for me WITH NUTS!! Guess she showed me now, didn't she?

Makes me almost think I should have aimed for the wrist.

Terri

I had a situation sort of like that happen at our McDonalds! I pulled up to the window and noticed my drink was sitting close to the window, I didn't think anything of it, I just waited for the girl to open the window. Well she did, but as she was reaching to push the window open, she had forgotten my drink was there. It came shooting out the window when she bumped it with her hand, so I put my hand up to block it in case it got too close to my window. It bounced off my car and hit the ground and the girl just had this baffled look on her face like she didn't know what to do. She handed me my food, and didn't say a word. Then turned around and started filling up another drink and then handed that one to me with both hands cradling it. She at least smiled and told me to have a good night, but I still laugh at the look on her face when that drink bounced off my car and hit the deck!

 

[Plannin'Shannon]

Too funny.

Regarding her request for you to pull forward, I worked at a fast food establishment (not McDonalds) for four months in college (felt like years), and we were given exactly 30 seconds to exchange money, hand over the food, and bid the customer a good day. There was a timer over the drive-thru window and as soon as it hit 30 seconds, the numbers changed from green to red. When you're "in the red," your productivity goes down, and you're in trouble. If we knew the order was going to take more than, oh, 40 seconds to complete, we requested that the customer pull forward so that our productivity meter wouldn't drop. And thus fills my useless knowledge quota for the day.

I loved your relay race analogy. Sometimes, that's exactly what it felt like.

 

[connorlevismom]

I have a funny McDonald's story...

I went through the drive-thru on my way to work one night. I should note that there is nothing but vending machines at my work place. Anyway, I ordered a plain hamburger. I get to work, ready to start my long night. I open my "hamburg" to find my roll, inside out (the white part on the outsides), with only 2 slices of cheese in between.

How did a plain hamburger suddenly become a cheese sandwich? Yuck. It was a hungry night at work.

OMG this cracked me up! I kind of had the same thing happen to me once. I ordered a plain cheeseburger and after about 5 minutes of waiting, the girl comes back and says "so do you want meat on it?". It was all I could do not to laugh in her face. What part of cheeseBURGER did she not understand?

Kristine

 

[keerymom]

OMG this cracked me up! I kind of had the same thing happen to me once. I ordered a plain cheeseburger and after about 5 minutes of waiting, the girl comes back and says "so do you want meat on it?". It was all I could do not to laugh in her face. What part of cheeseBURGER did she not understand?

Kristine

LOL! You didn't happen to be in upstate New York when this happened, did you?

 

[merryweather20]

My old McDonalds used to do this. Not to long after they started runners would come up and snag the bag from the hand of the Drive-Thru employee. It actually took them weeks to figure out thaat if they just held the order inside the window until the customer pulled up they could avoid the problem completely.