McKetchup

Last Saturday I was on my way to my brother's birthday party and I realized I hadn't eaten in about 7 hours, so before the night of drinking and carrying on, for some reason I decided to stop at McDonalds for a bite, probably because it was near the bank machine.

After ordering the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese and Chocolate shake, which, with Fries, came to $10.03, corrected to $9.70 without the Fries ($6 for a McDonalds burger is a folly I don't plan on repeating) I discovered that this $6 burger did not come, as I had requested, with no ketchup and extra mustard, but instead with no mustard, no pickles, and nothing else but ketchup and onion, and no damn napkins.

I was running late but damn if I don't decide to pull in and bring this $6 crapfest to the attention of the manager, who replied that despite my insistence that this burger should be on them, they could not refund my money but she would make me another one PERSONALLY.

Not wanting to start a war in McDonalds with an $8/hr earning manager, I griped loudly about the poor customer service, but fine, would she please fix me a burger with no ketchup that was GUAR-anteed to contain ample mustard and pickle.

Pulling out of the parking lot and fudging open the burger on the way back to the highway, I peered inside the bun to check: pickles, onions, NO ketchup...and two faded yellow spots that looked like the mustard stains that never come out of your favorite white shirt. UGH.

Biting into it, it was dry as a bone.

What to do...

Inside the takeout bag atop the napkins and complimentary fries(for the inconvenice) was a package of ketchup...

Lesson learned: if one is forced, by the misfortune of circumstance, to order at McDonalds...just eat what they give you.