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Thu, 18 Sep 2008

"My Mac-mac"
I took the kids to McDonald's this evening for dinner. The family room is a bit torn up - it has OSB laying down on tarps that cover the carpet, oh, and there are a couple of sections of scaffolding erected near the window that take up half the room. Kristy was at the movies, so I decided to do something easy.

On the drive over, I got all the orders squared away: nuggets, apples, juice box (Livy); burger, fries, chocolate milk (Berkeley); burger, apples, regular milk (Eliana). Getting the kids to decide on the compositions of their Kids Meals is literally half the battle. We arrived and I placed the kids order and then put in for a Big Mac and a glass of water for myself. Big Macs are actually the only thing I really like at McDonald's. OK, the Big Macs and the Fruit Turnovers. Now, I must confess that every time I place an order at McDonalds I secretly want to tag on an apple or cherry turnover to the end of my order, but then I think to myself: "One turnover is 89¢, however I could get two for $1.00; on the other hand, I don't want two... two are too many... and I'm not paying 89¢ for one turnover when they should be selling it for something like 60¢ - there's a principle at stake here!" So while I was revisiting this little conversation in my head about adding an apple Fruit Turnover to my order, the clerk interrupted my two-second argument with myself by telling me that Big Macs right now are on sale: 2 for $3.00.

"But I don't want two.", I explained, "Just one please."

"Well, one Big Mac is $3.19, and two Big Macs are $3.00", responded the helpful clerk.

"Alright." I muttered, "I'll take two."

While I was walking away, I imagined that MickeyD's would start selling one turnover for 89¢ and two for 80¢. Ha! I can dream can't I?

I got the food a few minutes later and commenced to dispense it into the three troughs... er, I mean I neatly presented it in front of my three clean eaters. I put the two Big Mac containers and the glass of water in front of myself. Livy was seated to my immediate left.

"My sandwich!", she said while grabbing one of the cartons.

"No Livy, those are Daddy's Big Macs."

"No, my Mac-mac.", Livy insisted.

"Alright, whatever." I shrugged and slid one of my $1.50 Big Macs over to her.

She put her two little hands around the Big Mac and actually managed to take a pretty good size bite... most of the lettuce fell down in her lap, but I was still impressed.

"Mmmmm... good Mac-mac."

She ate a little more than half of the Big Mac... about 8 Livy bites. I wiped the special sauce off her face after each of those bites. She honestly seemed to have enjoyed it. She didn't touch her nuggets (which were vacuumed up by Eliana instead).

(Update Fri Sep 19 08:09:57 PDT 2008 // of -> off)

:: Posted by rus on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:58 pm
:: Filed under /daily_journal/2008



        

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