Fast food, slow minds
Patience is a virtue, they say.
Which makes the 43th president, George Walker Bush, one of the most virtuous men on earth, since he is now on record for saying that he is willing to wait for posterity’s verdict on his presidency.
Maybe someone could explain to him that posterity doesn’t do waiting rooms.
Anyway, we were talking about patience. Well, in truth, we’re talking about a bunch of bloody idiots – no, not Bush; not this time anyway.
We have seen people waiting in huge lines, hoping for a glimpse of Britney Spears entering or leaving some nightclub (or rehab clinic). We have seen countless morons, day in, day out, during Michael Jackson’s paedophile trial, waving ‘We love you, Michael!’ placards outside the courthouse.
And now we also have this:
WINTER GARDE, Fla. — Thursday morning’s pouring rain didn’t keep people who love chicken from standing in line for hours.
More than 100 people stood in the rain outside a new Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Winter Garden. Some people brought tents to fend off the rain while others huddled together to stay as warm and dry as possible.
The people gathered for the grand opening of the restaurant. The restaurant is giving away a meal a week for the rest of the year to the first 100 people in line.
Mind you, not everybody would be prepared to set up tents in the vague hope that some fast food might follow eventually. Most people enjoy fast food because it is, well…, fast.
For some fast can never be fast enough, of course. They want their food delivered within nano-seconds. Yet, they also demand both immediate and perfect service - and God help the poor underpaid Mac jobber if he or she does not give satisfaction:
A man says he drove his car into the side of a Jacksonville, Florida McDonald’s because he didn’t get his french fries.
31-year-old David Spillers told police he lost it when he didn’t get the two french fries he had ordered last Thursday night.
“He got angry because his order was incorrect, and he rammed his car into the kiddie play area of this particular establishment,” said Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ken Jefferson.
Police say Spillers was so angry, he didn’t stop after smashing into the play area at the restaurant on Atlantic Boulevard. He rammed his car into the side of the restaurant, where customers normally sit.
It’s a shame really: grown-ups behaving in such an irresponsible manner. I mean, what kind of example does that kind of thing set for our poor, innocent children?
Oh, whom am I kidding?
Our children don’t need us to teach them how to behave in restaurants. Mind you, the way these kids do behave almost makes you long for the days of those stupid etiquette books and their strange hang-ups about the correct placement of the cutlery.
Put the knife on the right side of the plate or was that the left side of the plate?
You know: never mind. Just put it down, okay. Please…?
TAMPA - A 13-year-old girl released from the county Juvenile Assessment Center landed back inside after she tried to rob a Burger King at knifepoint over a cheeseburger, police said.
The girl, who was wearing pajamas and socks when she was arrested Saturday, told Tampa police she was hungry when she brandished a kitchen knife inside the restaurant and demanded a burger.
Police said a witness heard the girl yelling, “Give me a … cheeseburger now!” The girl chased the employee through the kitchen before other employees subdued her, police said.
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