Hold up at the McD's

[AmbrosiaWriter]

This comes via my father who just picked us up lunch after he took one of my dogs to the vet.

He went through the drive thru, there was only one person in front of him and no one behind him. The woman is in a massive pick-up truck (and since he was in my coup rather than his CR-V he felt tiny.) She gets to the second window, gets her food, and then doesn't move. She starts chatting to the guy in the window, and then hands back the two toys from the happy meals and gets handed two other toys.

Then -after another wait - she hands THOSE toys back and gets handed two different toys again... this repeats...

By the time she seemed satisfied, there were FOUR other cars behind my dad.

Seriously, like everyone had nothing better to do with their time than wait in the McDonald's Drive Thru while you haggle for cheap-o happy meal toys for your kids.

Back when I worked there, if someone wanted to trade toys in the drive-thru we told them to park and come inside, since the drive thru was supposed to be for people trying to get a move on. We have to keep the line moving.

My dad was both annoyed and bemused when he finally got home with the food.

[Firecrackers Not Included]

A Hold Up?! Thought this was going to be a heist!
Yes, I worked there in my teens and know what you mean. So aggrivating
watching those next orders on the screen going into the "red".

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Isn't that called a "stick up"?

[sms001]

I'm a terrible human being. I would have laid on the horn.

Odd that an employee would screw the metrics like that. Maybe Exchange woman was a personal acquaintance?

[Sheldonrs]

Maybe she just wanted to make sure the toys would "fit".

[Estil]

You can get a whole set of those Happy Meal toys (past or present) for about the cost of 2-3 Happy Meals on Feebay. :P

[pzychobitch]

Maybe she just wanted to make sure the toys would "fit".

they probably all could have fit at the same time.

[Firecrackers Not Included]

Isn't that called a "stick up"?

Yes, that too, and more often. We currently wear security devices on our belt loops that
we call "Hold Up Alarms".

Maybe she just wanted to make sure the toys would "fit".

they probably all could have fit at the same time.

Gross. And yes.

[dalesys]

Yes, that too, and more often. We currently wear security devices on our belt loops that
we call

"Jock Straps."

[Evannah]

I'm a terrible human being. I would have laid on the horn.

Odd that an employee would screw the metrics like that. Maybe Exchange woman was a personal acquaintance?

Or she was being a mega-bitch and demanding that he get her more toys. I've had that. Demanding customer wants me to do this, I say no, they get more demanding, I say something like "COMPANY POLICY" they get even more demanding, and then my customers queue up, the queue is getting bigger, customer is being a bitch, the other customers are getting impatient (usually they're having a go at me, even though the customer is the one causing the hold-up) and in the end I get flustered and do what they want me to do anyway.