Someone Stole My McDonald's

Sunday was the first pool day of the summer for the Dave-El family.

Despite my fervent hopes for a thunderstorm or that the "heat dome" settling over the United States would make things TOO hot!

I don't like going to the pool. 

There's too much work to get ready to go to the pool and too many risks once we get there.

• Will there be somewhere to park?
• Will there be a line?
• How long will it take to get through the line?  
• Will I apply insufficient sun screen and get roasted like a rotissierie chicken?
• Will there be too many frickin' kids? 

And so on and so on and...

Yeah, I'm grumpy. It's part of my character.

No, being grumpy IS my character.  

Wife Andrea, son Dean and friend Jan were happy to be there.'

I... tolerated the existence of the pool.  

My mood for going to the pool was not helped by the events before we left the Fortress of Ineptitude.

Where someone stole my McDonald's order.

So here's how that went down.

I put in an order for the 4 of us through the McDonald's app.  

I completed the order and got a confirmation code: AJ74.

I left to pick up the order with Dean and Jan as my wingmennuts. I drove up and a worker asked me if I was using the McDonald's app today and said yes and gave my code, AJ74.

McD worker: "What?" 

Me: "The code is AJ74." 

McD worker: "Are you sure it's for this location?"

Checked my app.

Me: "Yes, it is." 

McD worker: "What name is the order under?"

Me: "David." 

McD worker: "..."

2nd McD worker: "Could you drive around to the first window please?"

So this guy (a manager person I presume) explains that someone named David had claimed my order 2 minutes prior.  

Now I get that there are millions of people in this world named "David" but how did he get my food without my AJ74 code.  

Manager guy said they acted like they didn't know it.  

No, I don't get that either.

Look, there are other ways to confirm an order through the app if someone "acts like they don't know it". Like confirming "What did you order?" 

There are holes in this plot.

Anyway, the manager took down the order again, on paper since he couldn't put it in the system without charging us again. And he told us to pull up to the 2nd window.

One of the 4 orders was for 10 piece chicken nuggets.

At the 2nd window, a worker hands us a single bag of 10 piece chicken McNuggets:  "Here's your order." 

I noted my order was more food than that.  

This was greeted by this guy and everyone else with multiple utterance of "What?" 

We were instructed to move up to the one of the waiting spaces where we... waited for our order to be completed. 

Which included another order of 10 piece child McNuggets. 

McDonald's was having an existential crisis.  

Later we finally made it to the pool and my nose got sunburned.

And I'm so glad my suffering amuses you.