What’s a McNugget? Where can I buy one?
Some friends and I were having a fun conversation about the proper response to this situation.
We all agreed that McDonalds had stolen her money, around $4 or so.
This was my favorite:
"although I would first have explained to the cashier that a sale only occurs once goods have been delivered and that unless I get my Chicken McFuckingNuggets there was no goddamn sale to be final. Then I would have grabbed the Ronald McDonald charity box and run. "
Pretty sad, and unfortunately pretty common.
The media is quick to jump on the instances where 911 operators fail to take someone seriously when there actually is problem, but there are almost endless cases like this one where “people” call 911 for the stupidest things in the world.
“This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn’t have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one,”
I find it rather unusual one would characterize this as an “emergency”…
Actually, I stand corrected. Apparently fast food emergenices such as a sudden dearth of McNuggets are a serious enough issue that certain governements have responded with an iron fist.
This special unit in Hong Kong is detialed with exactly this type of dire fast food emergency:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1NlVlt4rjk
Had this woman placed her desperate plea for help in Hong Kong, the response would have swift and ruthless. This is clearly another example of the decent of American society into entropy, when basic menu items are exhausted and our govenment has no ready response.
Make no mistake: This is the 9/11 of the fast food industry.
Why? She WAS being robbed, probably at the point of a burger flipping device.
~Matt
Hong Kong chicks are cute.
I am betting that it did not start out as an emergency at McDonalds. After reading the article, I get the sense that they simply refused to refund her money. Guessing, she was getting quite annoyed, she called the police. Assuming that their refusal to return the money was not a big deal and that she should only have called for a real emergency.
I’m guessing the she felt theft of her money is a emergency.
I was in a similar situation once, butthe outcome was oh so different. When they resturant refused to do what they should, I walked out. But as I walked, I noticed the 1-800 complaint number. So I called. The look on the manager’s face when I told her I had corporate on the phone and they wanted to talk to her was rather priceless. Probably a better approach than calling the police, but I do see her point of view and how it could have easily escalated from nothing. I did leave and I did not return after that.
True but it all comes down to extremes. The McDonalds did in fact take her money. A case could be made for her calling the cops on a non emergency line. It’s the fact she went 911 that makes her a world class moron.
After reading the article, I get the sense that they simply refused to refund her money. Guessing, she was getting quite annoyed, she called the police. Assuming that their refusal to return the money was not a big deal and that she should only have called for a real emergency.
I’m guessing the she felt theft of her money is a emergency.
I have a hard time with this. I read that as well, but MacDonald’s is pretty well known for having very good customer service. If you have a complaint they’re generally very happy to do whatever they can to make you happy. True, this is a philosophy that gets pushed down from corporate, but most local owners and management staff really buy into it. They take out of date coupons. They’ll give you a refill on your drink if you ask for one. They have a whole generation of North Americans trained to stop there when on road trips because they have clean bathrooms, and I’ve never once seen a “restrooms are for customer use only” sign or had to ask for a key to use the facilities in a MacDonald’s.
They promote and breed a strong customer service focus across the board.
While I suppose it is indeed possible that the manager refused her a refund, I have a hard time believing that to be the case.
And wtf is a McDouble, anyway?
Maybe McDonalds should make the nuggets from the freakin Narwwhals. I bet one Narwhal would yield at least 1000 nuggets. Narwhal Nuggets mmmmm.
911 EMS calls I’ve personally responded to:
temper tantrum (2y/o)woman who didn’t know how to quit smokingrequest for fried chicken and advilhiccups (three times, different people)drowsiness at 3aminsomnia
hyperactivity following 3 red bull energy drinksfloor cleaning requestvarious complaints called in from numerous patients sitting in ER waiting rooms"fishy smell" from a woman’s vagina (x2)
“rape” by a husband on a couple’s wedding nightmuscle soreness from swimmingneck pain from talking on a telephonemore hangovers than I can possibly remember
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Then there were the 911 calls from Joe McCain, John’s younger brother, complaining first about a traffic jam and then calling back to complain about being told he shouldn’t call 911 about traffic.