a mcnugget! my kingdom for a mcnugget!
i am prone to bad decisions. sometimes i realize i am making a bad decision, and sometimes i don’t realize that i made a bad decision until well after the fact.
last night, my quest for mcnuggets was of the former.
yesterday around 2 am, my roommate, ben, and i were craving chicken mcnuggets from mcdonald’s. so we went to the mcdonald’s 3 minutes away from us and as we were talking to the drive-thru person, we remembered that the mcdonald’s 5 minutes from there charged less for chicken mcnuggets for whatever reason. we pull out of that drive-thru and head towards the other one, but it was closed. so we went back to the other mcdonald’s, but as we were ordering, we were told that they were out of chicken mcnuggets. at this point, we could have given up and gone home, but i was so set on chicken mcnuggets that we decided to check out other ones. and i knew that this was a bad decision at the time, but i couldn’t help it. i could only think of two other mcdonald’s in the area, and they were both ten minutes away. in most other cities, there are mcdonald’s every two [2] minutes. not here. it seems as though they are more wendy’s than anything else. anyway, we try the one about 10 minutes north, but that one was closed too. we then try the only other one that i know of, and that’s the one near the the freeway and 10 minutes away from the one we were at. i thought that surely that one would be open 24 hours, since it’s right next a big college campus. optimistic that it would be open, we went there only to find that it was closed as well. discouraged and defeated, ben and i headed home when i decided that we should not give up that easily. we pulled over on the side of the road and i looked up other locations on my phone and found one 10 minutes south if we went using the freeway. i called to make sure that it was open 24 hours and surely it was. we took the freeway south and as we approached this establishment, we could barely contain our joy. as we pulled up to the drive-thru to order, we were greeted with, “what can i get you this morning?” and we both thought, “morning?” it was at that moment that we realized the that breakfast menu was showing. that’s right, they were only serving breakfast. of course we asked when they stopped serving dinner and more specifically chicken mcnuggets, and we were told they stopped at 3 am. the time, 3:05. five minutes. we missed chicken mcnuggets by five[!] minutes. saddened by the turn of events and all the time spent and all the driving around 3 cities, i ended up getting nothing. and the worst part was that i wasn’t even that hungry in the first place.
