Tuesday, 25 September 2012
McDonalds... Number 1
I was walking home from Times Square at around Midnight on Sunday and needed a toilet. I found a McDonalds & therefore I had found a toilet (insert joke here) but the security guy told me the bathroom was only for McDonalds customers. Firstly, I didn't need a bath, just a toilet.... secondly, I think about 95% of the American population are McDonalds' customers, so it's not a very exclusive group... and thirdly, I would have thought customer safety was his priority - not making sure that the only foodstuffs to be flushed down the toilets had recently been purchased at McDonalds.
The Security Head of Internal Toilets (S.h.i.t.) was pretty adamant that I wasn't a McDonalds customer (surely my physique told him otherwise) & the following little scene played itself out:
SHIT: You have to buy something before you use the bathroom.
ME: Really? What about if I buy something afterwards?
SHIT: You have to buy something before you use the bathroom.
ME: Do I have to eat it or can I buy it and give it to a bum? Could I still use the bathroom then?
SHIT: Sure.
(I walked to the counter and placed my order)
McGUY: What can I get you?
ME: The guy in the tie said I have to buy something in order to be allowed to use the bathroom, so what's the cheapest thing on the menu?
McGUY (looking confused): Sorry?
ME: What's the cheapest thing on the menu?
McGUY (still confused): Coffee.
ME: OK, could I have a coffee please?
McGUY (back in his comfort zone): How do you like your coffee sir?
ME: I don't like coffee at all, I'm just buying something because the guy in the tie told me I had to.
McGUY (with confused look back on his face): Would you like sugar in the coffee?
ME: Sure. Put in as many as you can.
(I paid for the coffee ($1.09) and gave it to the SHIT (who missed the point that I was giving him my coffee when I asked if it was OK to give it to a bum) who was very excited and appreciative.
SHIT: Thanks man!
ME: No worries.
(I did what I had to do and on the way out of McDonalds I saw the SHIT gulping down his coffee. I asked him how it was, expecting him to say, "Sweet," but he didn't.)
ME: How's the coffee?
SHIT: Great, man. Thank you. Take care of yourself. Be safe.
So it turned out that I was wrong about him; he WAS concerned about customer safety.
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