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I'm not sure what the lives of most Newgrounders are like, but I suppose it's a fair bet that you all have eaten at McDonalds before. I work at one, and I don't suggest anyone do the same. Most people assume that McDonalds, like most fast food restaurants, is staffed by underpaid, undertrained, teenagers. That is not true. We actually have a good idea what we're doing. It's only when some customer does something he/she shouldn't that our entire process is disoriented and mistakes are made. Here is a list of things to keep in mind when ording at a drive through, as well as other usefull information about our food:
Most importantly, Do not, under any circumstance, begin your order with: "Uumm... uhhh... I'll take, uhh... umm... a number... uhh..." This happens way more times than it should. It makes us want to bash our heads into the window just to make it stop. I cannot stress the importance of not doing this enough.
Pay at the first window. Everyone knows this, right? At least once a day someone drives all the way across our drive-through, and every other customer assumes that they should too. Somehow, it's always the chashier's fault when this happens...
Everything but our beef patties are boiled in grease. Fries, nuggets, crispy chicken, chicken selects, spicy mcchicken, fish fillets, everything.
Don't pay with more than $1 in spare change. This is the quickest and surest way to irritate a cashier. On more than one occasion, someone has handed me two handfulls of change and had me count out what they needed. Multiple quarters are acceptable in groups of four.
We know the prices of our own food; you don't need to remind us. Some people think that if they don't specify the dollar menu item they're ordering costs a dollar, they'll be charged more. I don't know why.
Happy meals are not substitutes for a real meal. Your child needs more nutrition than 4 nuggets and some fries.
Don't use the prefix 'Mc' at the beginnig of any order. "McBurger", "McFries", McShake", etc. Maybe we really used these terms twenty years ago, but no one knows what they mean anymore. We have Mcnuggets, Spicy McChicken, and nothing else. The same applies when using the term 'Value' when referring to a size. God help you if you use the term "McValue Size"
You do not need to go all the way to McDonalds for just one large coke. Seriously. I've had one person drive through just for a cup of water. (You do have plumbing at home, don't you?)
Undestand that the idea of a drive-through is to get your food quickly. Don't order more than 10 items or charge more than $20. When you're waiting five minutes in line for your dozen double cheeseburgers, you're only pissing off everyone in line behind you. If you have a large order, come inside.
No matter what you may think, our fries have not been sitting there for several days before we served them to you. Their average sitting time is about five minutes. We honestly cannot make these things fast enough for you people. Seven times out of ten, the reason your order is taking so long is because we ran out of fries and had to make a whole new batch. The other three times is because the guy in front of you needed to have 7 Big Macs
Do not eat at McDonalds if you weigh more than 200lbs.
No one knows what Mac Sauce is. Not the crew members, not even the managers. The ingredients for Mac Sauce is a closely guarded company secret. I'm really not joking. Ask someone next time you go to McDonalds.
Late Entries: The term "Diet" is soda is misleading. It is not a 'negative' value in colorie/fat intake, and it will not help you lose weight. It simply has less calories than the standard variant. People think that choosing a diet soda will "negate" the extra calories their eating by up-sizing their meals. It simply doeasn't work that way. Some people even attempt to improve this imaginary reversing effect by ordering a large diet drink. In actuality, a large diet coke has as many calories as a regular-sized classic coke.
We no longer have "Super-Size" meals. Not sence the documentary...
Updated: 08/27/08 7:31 PM 3 comments | Log in to comment! | Share this!Why is it that nearly every single game with a tank on this site requires the use of a mouse along with the keyboard? This is just a personal gripe of mine, but I'm sure other laptop users have the same problem.
You see, with laptops, there is no mouse, unless you buy a special one that can plug into an ISP port. (If that is the correct acronym) What we get instead is a heat and pressure sensitive pad to move the cursor around. A quick tap against the pad also registers as a click of the mouse, or use the buttons below it.
Yes, most people are aware of all that, but appearanly some flashers here fail to understand just how unwieldy these pads are. Perhaps I'm just sorely lacking in dexterity, but I know that I just can't play any game on this site that requires a mouse and the keyboard. I'll have to use one hand for the pad, another to click, and grow a third arm out of my forehead to work the keyboard.
Tap clicking is pretty much hit and miss for me. If that's how I'm supposed to fire my main weapon, I'm not playing that game for long. Also, the extent of motion with the pad is also extremely limited. With a mouse, you can move as far as your arm, or your desk, in one sweep. I only have a rectangle of space about 1x3 inches big to move the cursor. I can either up the sensitivity by modifying a few preferences on my control panel, or make tiny little jumps untill I'm pointing at what I want to.
I formally request to all flash programmers to abandon this tactic. Consider all of the other people who would have no choice but to completely ignore your game or give it a bad score just because the controls are needlessly difficult. Besides, a keyboard has fare more control capabilities than any other periphoral used for computers.
I don't plan on making any flashes. I don't even have the right software. I made a habit of coming here frequently just find interesting stuff, it wasn't untill recently that I decided. "Hey, I'll make myself an account and actually earn experience points!" Besides, who doesn't want experience points? It wasn't untill I actually joined that I learned what they were for. Voting power aside, I'll be thrilled just to level up those weapon icons we get. I say Fulp or whoever's in charge here should make some game where we actually use those weapons to fight eachother.
Anyway, before I get off on a tangent, I have no intention on submitting anything here, just commenting and voting. I am a self-appointed judge of everything you submit. Who gave me the right to jugde but not be judged? You can thank Fulp for that one.
With no one coming to this page to see my non-existant flash, It doesn't really matter wat I say here. For that very reason, I just may post some bits of wisdom I've picked up. If not, I'll just be reading this same message every time I check up on my new Newgrounds Weapon.
P.S. To the first flash programmer to find this page, you should definately take that Newgrounds fighter idea I just mentioned.