Erk Gets McAngry!

What a day Christmas Eve turned out to be! I went to work wearing the Santa hat (see left) and even got a compliment from a male passenger and various smiles and waves. I'll be repeating the effort tomorrow for Christmas Day. There is at least one other driver that I saw today wearing a Santa hat as well. I thought that I might as well get into the spirit!



Anyhoo after an eventful day, I decided to get some food on my way home from work after having a "meal in a machine" at Campbelltown. For a big area, there are no shops across the road from the station and it is a far walk to some shops if you only have a short meal break or if the shops are even open.







So as you could imagine, I was hungry and wanted some quick and easy food and McDonalds at Auburn is a handy stop on the way home. I was talking on the phone with my co-host and friend Drue when I pulled up at the Drive Thru speaker. I doubt if he didn't hear the conversation for himself that he would have believed it. I thought I'd start with a bit of humour seeing as though I was wearing the Santa hat. I wish I was recording this!


The conversation basically goes like this:


Window 1: Can I take your order?

Me: Ho! Ho! Ho! Can I please have 20 Mc Nuggets with no sauce?

Window 1: Sorry?

Me: Can I please have 20 McNuggets with no sauce?

Window 1: You want coffee?

Me: No, I want 20 McNuggets with sauce.

Window 1: 20 McNuggets, no sauce. Anything else?

Me: A large Chocolate Shake and large fries

(lucky for me, they have a screen confirming your order)

Window 1: Anything else?

Me: And some carrots for the reindeer

Window 1: Sorry?

Me: Don't worry about it, it was a joke.


So I get told to go around to Window 1 and I pay my coin and get wished a Merry Xmas. Then I get to window 2.


Window 2: I'm sorry but the shake machine isn't working.

Me: Can I have my money back that I paid for my shake please?

Window 2: No you can't as it is a part of a combo.

Me: No it isn't. 20 McNuggets, a shake and fries is not a combo. If you can't give me my shake I want the money back that I paid for it.

Window 2: Do you want a Coke instead?

Me: No I don't. I want my money back for the shake.

Window 2: You can't. It is a combo. You have to have a drink.

Me: No it isn't and I want a shake or nothing. I want to see your supervisor.

(waiting)

Random Maccas Guy: G'day mate, how are you going?

Me: I might be wearing a Santa hat but I'm not happy.

(Random Maccas guy walks away)

(Supervisor looks INSIDE restaurant for angry customer and starts to walk away when I call her over).

Supervisor: What happened?

Me: I paid for a shake at the first window and I get here and I get told that the machine isn't working so I can't get a shake and I can't get my money back.

(Supervisor walks to machine, gets shake)

Supervisor: The machine was being cleaned so you couldn't have got your shake.

Me: I understand that but I couldn't have got my shake and I wanted my money back.

Supervisor: You would have got your money back.

(Supervisor walks off after handing Erk a shake. Erk is still waiting for the rest of his food)

Me: I was told that I could not get my money back because the meal (details meal again!) is a combo and it isn't. I was offered a Coke but I do not want a Coke but I wanted a shake. I've got my shake now but if I didn't get it, I wanted the coin that I paid back.

(more time passes, Erk looks in his rear view mirror to see cars banked up)


Then someone asked me to move to the waiting bay which I did to await my food after never being told there was a wait on the food. A McWorker comes out a few minutes later with my food with no apology or anything and I drive off. Needless to say I am not happy and I will be emailing McDonalds HQ with a complaint.


I tell my mum this story and then she tells me that a photo of me wearing my sunglasses fell down today and co-incidentialy I was wearing my sunglasses all day which I haven't done for a while!