What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Ok, that’s a rhetorical question, since I didn’t have my camera with me. But I wish I did, as what I just saw would have been worth recording for posterity…
John and I were driving home from the gym by our usual route, which always takes us past the neighborhood McDonald’s. It was a little after 2:00 p.m. – well past lunchtime – yet there was a long line of cars (11) idling in the drive-thru lane. The parking lot looked pretty full, too.
We both did a double take. It’s the day after Christmas, after all, so it’s likely that most of the folks in the restaurant ate pretty damned well yesterday. Heck, they may also have eaten heartily in the days just before Christmas too: after all, office parties/goodies, Christmas Eve celebrations, etc. are fairly common. So why on earth would anyone be eating at McDonald’s after all that… let alone LINING UP AND WAITING to eat at McDonald’s???
Wow.
You’d think today – of all days – would be a day where people would want to eat a little more sparingly and healthily… but obviously not.
December 26, 2009
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December 27, 2009
It seems like people are just hooked on McDonald’s. They were without it for a day,(Christmas), so they had to go back and get their “fix”.
We went into town to our son’s house on Saturday. The amount of people shopping and at restaurants was amazing! It seems like after the Christmas shopping was over, people would want to take a break.
The last thing my wife and I wanted to do was visit a store or restaurant, especially McDonald’s. I think the last time I went to a McDonald’s was 7 years ago.
December 27, 2009
the answer to the question is the same as the definition of insanity: a person who does the same thing over and over and expecting different results. i am sure a lot of these people got a brand new abdoershreddercirculatorpilatessmooothiemaker machine for christmas and they are just waiting for new years day to get really serious about their diet. they just don’t know any better. they say it will be the last time. they just don’t care. they don’t get it. they really have no hope because they only half hearted want to try. mcd’s is the easy way out.
December 28, 2009
I hate to say it, but my wife falls into that catagory. She has already talked about “doing something different on Jan. 1”. She’s talked about it before, but not followed through.
I can only hope this year will be different.
December 28, 2009
Yeah, it was busy downtown here too, although the gym was pretty empty: it’s a big place, and I don’t think there were more than 10 people in it while we were there. Yet, hitting the gym was the first thing I thought of doing the day after Xmas… I figured the place would be packed, too… more fool me.
I expect there’s an element of “What the heck – I’ll start on Jan. 1” to this, too. But as I see it, I’m going to be the same person on Jan 1 as I was on Dec. 31, so if I can’t start now, the odds are going to be against me then, too.