[ale] OT: The happy in Happy Meals

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:12 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Scott Castaline wrote:
> > At least it didn't have a roach in it...
> 
> 
> ah, yes... i now am more careful of roadside stops when i am taking a
> trip on my motorcycle.  once i found a roach leg in my fries (and that
> in itself is pretty gross), but strangely it didn't bother me as much as
> the whole one i found while half way through my crushed ice.
> 
> although, i have to say, the lady behind the counter was nice enough to
> offer me a refill at no extra charge for the trouble.

Nothing beats my first trip to Atlanta and the stop at The Varsity
(circa 1975 from junior high school). 

At the counter, the cup for my soda was dropped on the floor, then
stepped and totally flattened by another counter help person. My order
taker picked up my cup, opened it up with his hand and proceeded to fill
it. I refused the drink and requested a new cup. So the drink was poured
into a new cup from the old. Again I requested a new drink but this time
I was very plain it should be entirely new cup and drink.

I got my new drink in a new cup.

A friend ordered fries which he promptly drowned in ketchup. He stabbed
the red mound with his fork and shoved the pile into his mouth while
making faces about the ungainly selection that was now smearing ketchup
all over his face. He got a very puzzled look on his face and suddenly
ejected the entire ketchup slathered mouth load onto the floor. Words
can not describe the look of horror and revulsion on his face as we all
watched the ketchup coated cockroach limp out from the fry pile on the
floor.

This event was followed immediately by several other of my traveling
companions disgorging the contents of their stomachs onto the tables and
trays from the sight of the condiment-coated cockroach.

My mother, the chaperon who insisted that the group stop for a snack at
the Varsity, was never again asked to chaperon any school event.
-- 
James P. Kinney III          
CEO & Director of Engineering 
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