Pat Dollard

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Okay … I know you all have this image of me as some hell raising witch that fires and asks questions later …

Maybe, in some things.

However, my patience has worn thin with my local McDonalds down the road.

I don’t like their coffee. I like Dunkin Donuts coffee, hot or iced. But Lizzie has to have a Kids Meal once or twice a week … So, instead of driving further down the road for a coffee I’ll order an unsweetened ice tea from McDonalds …

For the entire summer never once has my ice tea been “unsweetened” … I take that back. Last time my hubby was out and got one for me he asked the kid handing it to him if it was “unsweetened” because it was for his wife who was a diabetic and if I drank it and went into a coma he would be back to “inform” the kid of such … the kid dumped the tea and fetched another. (I’m NOT diabetic, BTW, my husband has just, over the years, absorbed some of my ability to ‘ with people’ …)

So, anyway, just a bit ago I took Liz for a Kid’s meal for a girl (with the mini-Barbie inside doncha know) … I asked for the meal for a girl, a large unsweetened (loudly) ice tea, two cherry pies and a cream of broccoli soup.

What I got:

The kid’s Meal was A-OK … except the toy (which is like 1/3 – 1/2 the friggin’ price of the meal) was for a boy and not a girl … toy swapped for the Barbie

I got an unsweetened ice coffee (Fr. Vanilla), but said just leave it because I had thought about driving to Dunkin for one and was probably meant to have coffee instead (that whole God intervention thing free pass for her) …

2 pumpkin pies instead of cherry (and not noticed until I was home and Liz went to eat one)

nearly didn’t get my soup and had to wait another 10 minutes for it …

I just sat in the car glaring coldly at the girl in the drive-thru window who nearly went to tears every time I pointed out an error.

I said, “It’s okay, honey. Just be glad I’m not my sister from Georgia. Fast food joints all over the Atlanta area close their drive-thru windows when they see her coming …”

My Dr. Sis shoots and asks questions later … I tend to stand a few feet away from her whenever I hear “the tone” coming in her voice when she “interacts” with sales people.