My Father vs McDonald's

McDonald's is an easy target. They thrive on conformity and rules. And as soon as you make the rules more important then common sense you get humour.

My Dad went into McDonalds every Sunday with his paper. He would sit there a long time after his meal and on one particular day he had a number of people come up to him wanting to take one of the sections of his paper. After refusing a number of people an employee came up to him and haughtily told him "Sir, the paper is for everyone and you have to share". My father set him straight that this was his paper and he didn't have to share it with anyone. This is the kind of situation that I find frustrating at the time and funny later. What the hell kind of people complain that some guy won't share the paper? Some 40 year old goes and tells some 16 year old employee that a customer won't share?? Get a back bone.

On of the other run ins at McDonalds was over the continually changing price of his meal. He would always order the Big Breakfast and an extra hash brown. The extra hash brown threw of the staff every time. They would bring the meal with only one hash brown. Dad would have to explain he wanted two. They would tell him that they thought he justed wanted the one that came with the meal. The next time he would tell them two hash browns and they would bring him three. And the price was never the same for the same meal. One day after playing the game of ordering the hash brown the meal came up really cheap. My dad told the clerk that the price was much lower than usual. She told him that she gave him the senior's price at which point my father explained he was not a senior. The clerk without a trace of sarcasm says "I thought you were a senior because you are so cranky".