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McDonald's hasn't released new toys in Happy Meals in a while. What
kinds of stuff should they put in there next?
Well.. I do say! This certainly reminds me of the time back in the
winter of 93' when I, driving around in South- well, I'll just tell you
the story. ^_^
It was a dark and... um... snowy night in the mountains of South
Dakota. I was driving around in my volkswagen bus (LONG LIVE THE GERMAN
MAFIA!!!) and as I made my way across the Black Hills, I became
slightly... how do you say.. hungry. I noticed a small town in the
distance, and illuminating from the pitch black night was a large,
tall, luminescent sign with a rather large M on it. It was a yellow M,
but I thought it would have looked better blue. Or maybe green.
My hopes raised, I looked down at my gas level. I was almost out of
gas. Thankfully, there was a gas station right next to the giant
floating M sign. I couldn't wait to get refueled and served. I hadn't
eat for 4 whole weeks. Well, except for that can of dry roasted nuts.
Those were good.
Digging for my wallet, I felt in my pocket a sharp object. For a minute
I was alarmed, but then I realized it was just my house key. I
retrieved my wallet and had it armed (also known as "twenties at the
ready"), so slowly and steadily I drove up to the drive through window.
I was quite annoyed, for the restaurant was open 23 1/2 hours a day.
And it just happened to be the 1/2 hour that I was there, ready to get
food. The clock struck 12:13. 17 more minutes until they open. Could I
wait that long? I began to look for something to pass the time. I read
the signs on the windows. Double Cheeseburger for a dollar. Fries for
99 cents. Pink Suited Man "Happy Meal" toys-
I did a double take.
Unfortunately, the double take involved me accidently smashing my head
upon the glass window in the car. I regained my senses and did a real
double take.
Pink Suited Man "Happy Meal" toys.
Could it be true? Pink Suited Man "Happy Meal" toys? I couldn't believe
it.
Could it be possible that Ronald McDonald, master of crime, was somehow
linked to the Pink Suited Man? Or was it a coincidence of astronomical
proportions? I didn't know, but I did know that I was really dang
hungry, and a Double Cheeseburger sounded pretty darn good.
9 minutes. Could my stomach wait any longer? Maybe I had a few nuts
left. I checked, but I then remembered that I had thrown the can and
the few remaining nuts at a rabid moose that tried to attack me. Least
I still had my boots, and that was the most important thing.
3 minutes. How did time fly so fast between here and the last paragraph?
2 minutes. Wow, maybe it's like a time warp or something?
1 minute. Now I was hungry. I felt my stomach trying to digest itself,
and I knew I needed to get food as fast as possible. I drove up to the
cool ordering board thing and looked it over.
59 seconds. Dang, I thought and drove over to the order board thing AND
looked it over in 1 second? Wow, I'm good. ^_^
30 seconds. I knew what I wanted. It was a double cheeseburger with
lots of onions and three beef patties, which defied the "double"
stereotype, but I liked to break the rules- or traditions -once and
then.
23 seconds. I counted these last seven seconds and bit my tongue. I was
rather ticked off.
1 second. I decided it'd be best to stop logging my progress since I
had to fix my now bleeding tongue.
The menu flickered once or twice, then came to life, like a clock being
wound up. I heard an barely understandable voice along with a good deal
of static. The voice said, "May I take your order?"
This shocked me! Never once before had I been asked if they could
"take" my order. I was quite disturbed, but since I was dying of hunger
there on the spot, I gave the man an order. But something.. something
seemed familiar about his voice.
"Uh.. yes." I said. "I'd like a double cheeseburger with lots-"
"Sirrr, we don't havee a 'lots' button. We have an 'extra' button, but
not a 'lots' button." the voice said from the other end, drawling on
like it was a pain to serve me food at 12:30 A.M. "If you'd like me to,
I could get the maannnager-"
"No, no, I think I'm perfectly fine. Just push the extra button a bunch
of times."
"Oh. That might work..." the drawling voice replied. Where had I heard
that voice before? I knew I knew it... but from where? "Continue your
order, sirr."
"Okay." I replied, and started where I had been so rudely cut off. "-of
onions and three-"
"Siirrr.. I need you to start all over. Sorry for any-", (at this point
he sniffed really loudly, as if he had a really bad cold) "-
inconvenience."
I sighed, but as much as I wanted that food, I held my temper and
started over, and thought about giving the man a kleenex.
"Okay, okay. I'd like a double cheeseburger with lots- I mean, extra
extra extra extra extra extra onions and instead of two beef patties,
I'd like to have 3 or maybe even four."
I heard some sniffling, and nose being blown and an annoyed wiping.
"Sirr... please start over. I was-" (he sneezed at this point)
"bloowwwing my noosseee." the droning voice replied to me, sounding
more droning than usual.
I was steaming, but I calmed down, and reordered, and decided that I
would add something to my order.
"Okay, okay, for the last time. You listening?"
"Yes." the droning voice replied.
"I'd like a double cheeseburger with lots, well, you know, extra extra
extra extra extra extra extra onions and three or four beef patties
instead of two, and give me a cheeseburger kids meal too, if you would."
"What kinda drink would you like with that happy-" (he didn't sound
happy all, I thought) "-meal?"
"Um.. iced tea?"
"Sirrr.. what kind of kid drinks Iced Tea at midnight?"
"Um, that was for me."
"You're a kid?"
"No, I ordered a kids meal." I said, still trying to keep my calm.
"OHH, right."
I couldn't believe this man's stupidity. I heard a good deal of
clicking, a sneeze (or was it two sneezes? I couldn't tell) and
blowing, and the droning voice returned to tell me to, "Please pull
through to the second window, sirr."
So I did.
And upon reaching the window, I got my food and drove off into the
night.
Then i opened my happy meal, the Pink suited man jumped out and tried
to get me, but I got away. The end.
P.S. the last bit was written in a rush so soapr would get this today XP
-Weldar
Another one of these essays and I'll have to make separate archives pages, man, WUIT MAKING ME WORK SO HARD!!!!111 Ahem. Very interesting, I am assuming that this pink-suited man is indeed identical to the previous one, which means that Steve is in our happy meals? Now that's a scary thought, I think you've scarred me for life...
Oh, and you're lucky I update late in the day, you should write these things earlier, yah?
-Soapy
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