I don’t like McDonalds.
I don’t like McDonalds, not because their exploitative business model deprives developing countries of appropriate profits which they deserve, not because their staff’s squeaky voices always drive me crazy to the point where I have so unbearable headache that I could think that their noisy background music sound like spirited hymn in a silent cathedral, not even because their greasy foods are instrumental in world-wide obesity problems in our time.
I don’t like McDonalds, because people don’t wait in line.
It is very legitimate for you to expect that you would be treated first if you go into any shop first. Am I wrong? But, more often than not, it doesn’t happen to me. Somebody who enters the shop AFTER me could get a chance to order the menu, and successfully go to seats with triumphant smile.
Surprising though it may be to some foreigners, we didn’t have a custom to wait in fork style line up until about fifteen years ago, as long as I remember. I still remember I was very careful to choose behind whom I need to wait in public toilets when I was a kid, especially when my bladder was nearly ticking. But now, as you see, we are making A line regardless it is public toilets, or regardless it is post offices. What a civilized country we are!!
But, McDonalds!
Okay, let me get straight. I like hamburgers. I love French fries. I love any kinds of junk food, because it is junk! There is a time when my craving for greasy, fatty, cholesterol-filled hamburgers is so powerful, so overwhelming, that I am unconsciously typing TELI-YAKI during my work instead of my boss’s name.
But, going into McDonalds, waiting for ages in messy circumstance with naughty kids kicking my shin, seeing some lucky and ungentle customers, who came later than me usually, being treated earlier than me only because my gluttonous guy or lady in front of me ordered four cheese burgers, five French flies, and six Cokes, and being left behind for long time is totally unacceptable for me.
Let’s make a line in Folk style, shall we?
3 comments:
Spiking of Macdonald, there is a words "smile 0 yen" on right bottom corner of the menu in Japanese Macdonalds. (I bet you know it) According to the internet bulletin board, there is no particular procedure when the shop staff gets order of smile. And it is up to the shop staff how to deal the customer who orders "smile". Furthermore, some Macdonald`s branch print out the "smile" on their receipt.
The point is "It is no a joke". Quite Japanese thing eh?
Once I tried to order the "smile" to a smiling shop staff girl. What I found out was..
"If we order the smile, staff`s smile will be gone."
I'm mitsuko.I read your blog interestedly using dictionary and I might understand approximely.I had a impression it's like column.About lines,similar phenomenon happens at checkout counter in a supermarket.I'm irritated especially after work.I feel I am a japanese. Yesterday, my coworker lined at McDonalds to buy 3 coffee(using free ticket)for quite long time. Anyway I'm looking forward to see "Dinero"!
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