Today, I took Emily, Melissa, and Sam to McDonalds for lunch. We needed to eat out because we had workers in our kitchen painting the new sheetrock they had installed in our ceiling after Samuel flooded the upstairs bathroom and damaged the ceiling in the kitchen. We have had many such disasters in the last 8 years or so, but that is not the point of my post.
We all went into McDonalds and I said to the kids, “Run along and play”. I have probably walked into McDonalds a thousand times or so and said those words. They all ran to the playplace while I ordered our lunch. I have learned that the busy McDonalds workers never, ever, EVER, get the happy meals assembled correctly when you order more than one, so I opened them all at the counter and had them swap out the fries for apple dippers they had mistakenly put in one of the meals. Aside from this minor annoyance, I enjoyed our trip to McDonalds like I usually do.
Here is what I like about McDonalds. I can take my kids there and they can play. When we are on the road, or unable to eat in our kitchen because of water damage, or when it is too cold for the kids to play outside and they have been cooped up in the house too long, I can always take them to McDonalds. There is never a problem with them being too loud, I don’t have to try to get them to sit still. I can just sit there and eat my hamburger and sip my drink and watch them play. The kids meals have appropriately sized hamburgers or nuggets, and you can get milk and apples with them instead of sodas and fries. They come with a little toy. When they were babies, it was convenient to change them in the bathrooms, which are almost always clean. Today when I threw our garbage in the garbage receptacle, it said thank you. I think McDonalds is the greatest restaurant ever.
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