So my
manager drove up from
Pennsylvania to pay us a
site visit at
Lockheed today (only the 2nd time I've met him in two
summers), and he
decides to treat me to a
gourmet meal at
McDonald's. The girl
takes my order, gets my food, the usual. I start to walk away with my
tray, and then as a
joke I said, "You know, you forgot to thank me for
choosing McDonald's!" I've been to this McDonald's quite a few times, and I
think this was the first time they actually
forgot. Anyway, the girl gets
a really
weird look on her face and then starts
apologizing about
fifty
times. I start to say that I was just
joking around, but she still is
being really apologetic. It's about this time that I notice her
supervisor had started to
wander over, so I took my tray and went to sit
down since I really didn't want to
make a scene.
About 10 minutes later, over a terribly interesting
conversation about
project specs and
mission critical documents, we hear some
yelling and
screaming coming from the back of the restaurant. My manager
(Steve) cracks a joke, saying something like "Looks like you'd make a good
manager--barely a
sentence and you're getting people
fired!" We both
have a good
chuckle over that one, until I notice the
server girl coming
over to the table. In
street clothes. With
tears streaming down her
face. With pure
hatred in her eyes, she stares straight at me and
says..."
Thank you for choosing McDonald's, you piece of SHIT!" She then
walks right out of the
restaurant.
The restaurant supervisor comes over next,
profusely apologizing for the
horrible, horrible way we'd been treated. The girl had been
immediately fired and would never
bother anyone here again. I'm in
complete shock at this point, and Steve has
soda (
pop for you
Illinois
freaks) coming out of his
nose from
laughing so hard. I try to tell the
manager that I really *had* just been joking around, but all he did was
apologize again and get me some free McDonald's
gift certificates to make
it up to me.
Beat that.
See:
RimRod Returns to McDonald's (Part 2)
RimRod Gets Stranded At McDonald's (Part 3)
RimRod Loses the McDonald's Curse (Part 4)