Oh my. The new cyberdog top has arrived and I have been wearing it all day, well, not including the bits where I was beavering away at work.
Half Term. Great. Short staffed and now our shop floor is rammed to the gills with bad smelling adults and their undeniably disgusting children. Its true what they say in the papers (not that I read them of course), kids are getting fatter. And not just a little bit. I was stood outside MacDonalds on Sunday and watched a parade of overweight kids wobbling and waddling their merry way out of the double doors. Sooner or later they are going to have to make it one big door like you get in most garages.! How is this possible.!! When I was a kid I went to MD’s about once every 6 months. It was a treat but to be honest I was never all that bothered. American Style Fastfood has never really appealed to me (yes I know I like a lot of Indian, Chinese and Pizza but that is not fast food, just convenience food), allow me to elaborate…
When you have eaten one burger from a burger joint, you have eaten them all. You know full well that they look nothing like they do in the photos and they taste nothing like you would expect. Then you come up against the misnomer “fast” food. Since when.? Fast food to me means its there within 30 seconds of standing at the counter, its hot and its fresh. Why is it that most of the time I go into somewhere I end up waiting (this was last time I went in some unnamed outlet) 5 minutes, my friend even longer and the food was A) cold and B) no way fresh (in all truth it had probably spent more time between being cooked and being in my hand than it had in between walking around some ex-rainforest area in Uruguay and being lobbed along with a long, stringy greener on to the griddle). That is neither fast, or food.
Surely it doesn’t have to be like this. Last time I was in London I visited a place with my Vegan ex-girlfriend (bless her) called Moaz Falafel. They sell, well, falafels (little rounds of basically seasoned chickpeas deepfried and whacked into a pitta bread with what ever you want added). It was a very busy time of day, near tea time, the place was in the middle of Soho (next to a most amusing gay bar that was packed to the gills, and I mean stuuuuuuffed with camp looking men. I was actually surprised to not see men in towels being slapped up against the steamed up windows.! (Hwang, leave it.!!)). We waited about the same amount of time as I did in the fastfood place while my food was prepared and cooked and I was offered a huge selection of things to go with it. It was CHEAPER too and nicer.!! Oh and there was just three people cooking and serving too. Miracles do happen it seems.
Now all we have to do is beat the hell out of all those parents who think its cheaper to feed their kids endless amounts of shit and then complain when they get hyperactive, have no teeth, drop down dead at the age of 8 through heart complaints. Hands up all those parents who claim their kid has ADHD (ie acting like a twat to get attention). 90% of ADHD is purely bad disciplining from parents, but when these kids are told off in schools then their parents attempt to attack the teachers, learning by imitation.? Go figure.
Scrrreeeeeech. . . brakes broken, can’t stop.!!!
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Actually while I am in the mood, why is it that when I answer the phone at work people ask me stupid questions…
A transcript of some of an actual call…
“Good Morning *shop name* Weston, How can I help.?”
“Hello.? Is that *same shop name I have just said*”
“Errr.. yes.!”
“In Weston.??”
I’m sorry… no its actually the Tamworth branch of The Disney Store.! I just answer with the other name and place to confuse terrorists and piss of the elderly and infirm.!! Ooooh it makes me sooo mad.