The perspective only the McDonalds Drive-Thru can grant.

As previously noted, I likes me some McDonalds. As such, I'm a common visitor in the drive-thru. Now, if you also keep in mind this post, you would know I get cranky before I eat. Which, coincedentally, would be the whole reason I was sitting in said drive-thru. The problem is, drive-thru's are part of fast food restuarants. And fast-food places sell food cheaply. Cheap food means cheap labor. And cheap labor means... teenagers!!111111111 yay!!!!!111 Anyway, when I'm cranky and in the drive-thru, often a car will stop at the ordering window and sit there. Forever. Young men become old men while I sit behind this car, who must be ordering 8 of each thing on the menu (which, on second thought, would be somewhat quick to ring up and make, compared to the terror some people unleash when they open their mouth to order). And I get angry. Maybe not angry, but certainly impatient. Complaining, sighing, whining all are likely. It's important to note that all this impatience gets targetted at the driver of the car sitting there. Eventually, the thick layer of dust that has been gathering on the car gets kicked up the air as it slowly rolls up to the place where they take your monies. So then it's my turn! Still fired up about waiting so long, I pull up to the place to order, confident that MY order is only going to take 7.6 seconds, in fact I probably shouldn't even stop, because its gonna be so fast that I can yell it at the speaker as I roll by. So I pull up the window, and wait. And wait, and wait. More sound is generated in the vaccuum of space than comes from this poor, stupid speaker. And that's when I realize - it's not the person in the car's fault for having to sit there. They were faced with the same situation as me, and they probably faced the same inconvienence of waiting that I did before I got to the McD's. This, oddly enough, gives me a better perspective on all sorts of things. Things like - when someone is a jerk to me, is it possible that they weren't acting out of spite or hatred to me, but possibly because someone else acted unkindly to him... to sum that up, because they were sinned against. Now obviously the drive-thru is a delightfully trite way to show this point, and the analogy is full of holes, but the point is made nevertheless. I realize this perspective is something that should be elementary, but people have so many faces they can put on, that it can be difficult to remember. Okay, I think that's enough of me for today. Post a comment, have a courier send me over some Triaminic (stupid drainage), and enjoy your funny link: The Universal Decision Maker. Use it whenever there is a yes/no question in your life of monumental importance (like: Should I take a half day at work today because I feel like crap and its ruining my already diminished productivity? Interestingly, I asked it, and it said "yes". I think the real use of this tool is when you have a question you ask it, and you watch the little spiders advance - whichever spider you are hoping wins, is the answer you should pick, not which spider actually wins.)