lawmummy

I discover this every day.

And for those people who say that kids just “can’t resist” the taste of fast food, they’re wrong.

You see, today I took Charlie for his shots.  He had three.  He was not in a good mood.  None of us were in a great mood, having stayed up far too late with coughing, hacking and various ailments.

Just before we got to the store (a side trip after the doctor), Amy and Charlie were on the fringe of sleeping.  Aha, I thought.  Maybe if I drove them around a bit, they’d fall asleep.  Amy doesn’t nap on her own anymore so I thought this would be good for all of us.

We had not eaten lunch yet and Charlie’s eyes were almost closing.  I saw the golden M down the street and thought “Perfect, we’ll splurge on McDonald’s - we don’t even have to get out of the car - and then I’ll drive around, thus putting the kids to sleep.”  Foolproof.

The last time that I went to a McDonald’s drive through, I ended up with six drinks because I had an order panic.  I don’t like the myriad of choices and 15 second time limit.

This time, I came prepared.  I asked the girls before we got to the menu what they wanted:  Katie wanted fish and Amy wanted chicken.  Well, there is no fish happy meal.  This wouldn’t have been such a big deal except that the happy meals come in these cute little boxes (Halloween houses, according to my girls) and the result would be that Amy had one and Katie wouldn’t.  So, at the last minute, I switched to two happy meals with chicken McNuggets, one with fries and one with apples (thinking that they would share).  Amy got milk.  Katie got water.  Apparently, you don’t get water with your happy meal as a choice which resulted in a confusing bottle versus tap issue and one fewer straw than we needed.

But I digress.

In the car, Madeline tried to sort out who got what.  It was not an easy task.  It turns out that nobody wanted the nuggets.  Katie tried them and hated them and attempted to pass them off to her brother - he cried and threw them on the floor.  Amy told me that she ate hers but I found them in the seat.  Most of the fries landed on the floor.  What was eaten?  The apples (which, by the way, in keeping with the marketing oversaturation of Shrek included Shrek packaging on the apples).  Katie drank most of her water, which she later declared to be her favorite part of lunch.  Philadelphia tap water, go figure.

So I paid far too much to have a big pile of food and wrappers all over the floor of my car.  Next time, I stick with my gut and I don’t stop at McDonald’s for lunch.  I really don’t get the attraction.

November 28th, 2007 | Category: Food and Drink | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL