McDissapointment

     No, nobody's order got screwed up.  No, they weren't out of apple pies or hash browns.  This was much....much worse.  This didn't just disappoint two or three people; lives were impacted here people.  McDonald's....is closed!
     This weekend being Easter weekend a lot of us went home for the holidays.  I was one of them, and it was a great weekend, but when I came back to school on Sunday I was in for a shock.  The golden arches was closed for the holiday.  Now, it's not unheard of for a business to close down on Easter Sunday, or even the entire holiday weekend.  But it was quite odd seeing the McDonald's closed during the day.  Apparently I wasn't the only one who didn't anticipate this closure, since I got to watch person after person attempt to meet their grease quota for the week.
     At first, it was just people on foot.  A man walked up and pulled on one door (mind you, they have signs posted on the doors).  But apparently the door being locked didn't stop him.  He moved over to the window, peering in in hopes of getting that McGoodness.  At this point you could tell his case of the hangry's was getting to him as he glanced over to his lady friend in the car.  Afraid of disappointing her, he went over to the other entrance door.  What do you know, that one's locked too!  Who'd have thought?  He finally read the sign and sulks back over to break the news to his female friend as they drove off.  Poor guy.  He didn't get any that day - McDonald's obviously, get your heads out of the gutter.

     We had a few more people come up on foot, even one on a bicycle, it was always interesting to see how long it took them to realize there were no McNuggets to be had.  Some only took a few seconds, others a bit longer.  But then it finally happened, the first car rolls into the drive thru.  I whipped out my phone in hopes of measuring exactly how dumb these people were.  Unfortunately it only took them a minute and half before the creeped past the ordering speaker and disappeared behind the building.  But then the odd got odder.  They didn't pull around the other side of the building.  I kept the stop watch going.  Another minute ticks by.  And another.  And another.  Five and a half minutes later they creep past the windows and ease off down the road.
     More cars and pedestrians rolled through, some cars didn't even slow past a crawl.  Others pulled in and parked, trying to figure out why they couldn't get their McFix.  Not only were people missing the food...they were apparently missing the bathrooms....At one point a car slowly cruises through the lot (apparently seeing the closed signs) and parks near the back.  A man got out of the drivers seat and walked towards the enclosed dumpster area.  Since it was unlocked he slipped in and picked a spot in between the dumpsters.  Thank god the area was enclosed so all we could see was him stand there for a minute and the signature body language following 'emptying his soda fountain'.  The even more embarrassing part is we noticed there was a girl in the passenger seat! Poor guy must have really needed a bathroom to leave his girl in the front seat while he snuggled up with a dumpster.  Talk about a mood killer.  He probably should have paid more attention to the fact that there was a gas station across the street that was actually open.

     We only watched for a half hour or maybe an hour at most.  But you really realize how much money (and bathroom usage) they were missing out on and how many customers were upset.  It honestly surprised me that they didn't post anything on their sign by the street instead of just posting pieces of paper on the doors.