Man, working in a fast food place for a while sure makes it obvious (or even more blatantly apparent, in this case) when other fast food places are giving you adequate service or really poor service.

Okay, so tonight Nick, being Nick, calls me up at about 10 at night saying that he was hungry and lonely and he wanted me to walk to McDonald’s with him.

Keep in mind I’m not getting anything, so I’m watching this whole process. We get there and there are no people waiting. We stand there for about three minutes before one of the female employees finally comes up to the front with this look of absolute annoyance on her face. The whole time Nick’s ordering she’s just glaring at him. It’s rule number 1 when you’re working the front: smile and act friendly towards the customer. Do not try to kill them with your eyes.

Just as he’s finished ordering a whole horde of people come through the doors, so we step back and wait, assuming that it will only be a minute or so. Well apparently, they didn’t have fries down when we got there (that’s another major rule—ALWAYS have fries down) so they had to put in a new batch in the fryer.

When she is finished taking orders (which were taken with the same evil glares she were giving Nick), she starts putting their orders together. By this point the fries are done (ding, fries are done, ding, fries are done!), but she seems to not be able to hear the buzzer (how, I don’t know) because she goes on doing whatever she’s doing for the other orders for about another minute (which is a long time for fries to be in the fryer past the time limit). Then, when she finally gets them out, she fills all the orders before Nick’s (even though they were after us), emptying all the fries out so that we have to wait EVEN LONGER to get ours!

It was frustrating. But Nick was totally clueless, so it was kind of amusing at the same time.