A Dollar Sixty-Two and a Friendly Wave
I don't know about you, but I am a soda FREAK! I don't deny myself many things as far as food goes, but even when I can't zip the jeans and have to start the proverbial crash diet - COKE is always included. Most of the time I make it a diet, but a coke - a real coke - is my favorite beverage, ever.
Every morning before I join the forces of evil and start my journey through traffic hell, I swing by my local McDonald's to get my 32 oz diet coke. (Yeah - it's nearly an hour commute and I need it!) I live in a small town in the DC burbs, and my McDonald's wants to promote a "home town" experience. Every morning (rain, snow, sleet or shine), a wonderful individual is standing outside manning his or her (and it's usually a his) post to personally take our orders. I've been doing this routine for three years now. My McDonald's guy and I are past the "Good morning, welcome to McDonald's may I take your order please" hooplah. There's really no need for it - we are friends. I know how much my large diet coke is going to cost - it's always $1.62 - and I always have my money ready. There's no need for communication over my order. Instead, we wave to each other, he punches in his "here comes the crazy large diet coke lady" code, and I keep going. As soon as I get to the first window, I pay and move to the second window. By that time, I see my diet coke (it all it's beautiful glory) being extended to me by the arm of my inside girl. I don't know her name - I just know her as the girl with the gold tooth who doesn't speak English. We smile at each other and I move on. Sometimes I don't even have to come to a complete stop!
Can I just say - I love this realationship with my Micky-Dee's folks! This epitomizes the "Have a coke and a smile routine." Service at it's finest - and always with a gold-toothed smile. Does it really get any better than that?!
posted by Kim @ 7:32 AM
2 Comments:
You could save .60 cents a day or $3 a week, if you bought a 12 pack of soda (5 days, 2 per day, 2 left over for Sat. lol), poured it into your own cup, (saving the environment - trash wise and standing gas time, lol), you could leave 2 minutes faster, missing about 100 cars of traffic, could be less stress. But...you would miss out on a 3 year relationship and a friendly wave from two strangers but yet familiar people, so ditch my idea, pay the toll (McD's drink) as I am sure you make their day brighter by slowly rolling thru their drive thru (sounds weird), not to mention they need to get paid! This is a cool thingy, your blogs. lol Take care, Mike
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