I spent too long working at a small McDonald's when I was young (it was
my first job) and it was always the drive through that gave us problems.
We were an old store (like yours I presume) and the menu couldn't be
seen from the service booth and it didn't have a camera. Lemme see:
1) My first work-related fist fight was there: I guy walked into the
lobby screaming that he had been waiting at the drive through for the
past 20 minutes and was being ignored. The night manager (a short,
broad woman) tried to apologize for the problem but he just kept getting
frothed up. In the end he shoved her; me and another guy jumped him and
threw him out. Now HERE'S the funny part: turns out, in the end, he
didn't actually have a car! Neighbors reported he was just standing in
front of the menu screaming at it (as most of them are our menu alarm
was based on a metal detector under the pavement)
2) We had two animal related incidents; the first was the funniest. A
woman on the intercom was about half-way through her order and started
screaming - we thought she was being attacked. So one person got on the
phone and two of us went out the back to help: when we got out there she
was still screaming: a very large Raccoon was sitting on her hood. I
wasn't sick, just semi-domesticated (it was used to begging for scraps
at the motel next door, but that had been closed so it must have been
looking for new begging grounds). We had her pop the hood latch and the
little jumped sent him running. She was hysterical and had to come
inside to calm down.
3) The second animal incident was one of the coolest things I've ever
seen. A customer came in and suggested that we talk a look at our drive
through so we went out and do so. The entire menu and quite a bit of
the surrounding area was covered with a hoard of small praying mantises
(we guessed that they had just hatched from one or more egg sacks). It
was the first time I had ever seen one and I was seeing hundreds.
4) Lastly we also had the classics. The idiocy of the: "drive through
backwards" folks. Problem was they couldn't drive straight forwards.
We had so many of these idiots hit the outcrop of the window, the menu
board, other cars, etc. We also had at least two naked (or at least
technically naked) guys (apparently this isn't uncommon - they wander
the drive-thrus looking for voices that they like then keep them on the
speaker as long as possible, then see them. It's kind of like a twisted
free phone sex.)
If it weren't for crappy jobs I'd have nothing to talk about at parties.
Jim Davis
-----Original Message-----
From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:00 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: mugging in cmh
That reminds me of the time I was working at Taco John's on Halloween. I
was
17 and the night supervisor. The drive-thru was open later than the
dine-in.
So, dine-in was closed and the drive-thru beeper went off. I head over
there, press the button to talk, but the beeping just continues. Huh...I
try
to see out there, but it's dark. So, I go to the back of the store, open
the
door, and there's a car ON TOP OF the drive thru menu. The menu was
folded
in half. The people in the car are wearing costumes, of course, adding
to
the strangeness. The guy is trying to push the car back off of the drive
thru menu. I yell at him to just leave it there. He sees me, panics, and
starts ripping the license plates off the car. Meanwhile, his girlfriend
is
yelling at him, "Dino - what are you doing!?! You f***ing idiot!"
Boyfriend
takes off on foot. Girlfriend is left stranded. I tell coworker to call
911,
meanwhile I get girlfriend to come into the building to calm her down.
She
wigs again when she realizes that we're in the process of calling 911,
screams that I'm trying to hold her hostage (because I locked the door)
and
demands to be set free. She leaves. Cops arrive. I tell them what
happened.
They say, "Oh, it was Dino? Yah, we know where to find him. We'll have
him
by morning."
-d
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:49 PM
Subject: RE: mugging in cmh
> I've actually had the misfortune to chase two purse thieves (neither
one
> was "mugging" per se, but rather snatched the purses from a park bench
> in one case and a bar room in the other). In both cases when faced
with
> a pretty dedicated pursuit they drop the purse and take off (faster,
> unfortunately, than my fat ass could go). So in both cases I got the
> purses back, but lost the thief.
>
> In general most of them will follow suit - it's when you actually want
> to catch them (and not just retrieve the property) that that may get
> nasty. But in any case most police will tell you specifically not
chase
> down a potentially armed, potentially dangerous person. (Most purse
> snatchers aren't armed but most muggers are).
>
> Lemme see. I've also been in several fights (or close to) with thieves
> while working at 7-Eleven. I stopped one snatch-n-grab car thief (saw
> him trying all the door handles down the street and followed him until
> got in one). The weirdest thing was rescuing a girl from her car
trunk
> (tiny little thing: had climbed in the trunk to try and make space for
> something and closed on her. my wife and I walked by and heard sobbing
> from the back of a running car - thought we had foiled a kidnapping
> caper at first, but it was just bad timing for her. ;^) ).
>
> While I was pumping gas on the night shift and working a 7-Eleven I
also
> dealt with more than my share of drunks and stupid incidents. One
drunk
> shoved hi girlfriend over a snow bank and she cracked her skull on the
> pavement. They brought her bleeding all over the place with him
> screaming at us (the clerks) to call an ambulance. We also called the
> police and when he heard us doing so he trying to get the phone - we
had
> to restrain him.
>
> Since at night we were the only shop on the street with more than
person
> (and pretty much the only one with big burly guys) we got called a lot
> by the neighbors to bounce drunks and vagrants.
>
> Jeeze. the anecdotes crappy jobs give you. ;^)
>
> Jim Davis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:07 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: mugging in cmh
>
> well yesterday was the strangest in a long time.
> me & my wife are walking to a local breakfast joint.
> its a bit drizzly out.
>
> \across the street there is an older couple & a younger blond.
> all the sudden the blond starts screaming bloody murder!
>
> then running down the street goes by a well dressed mugger.
> i take flight, before thinking.
>
> i know i can catch him with in a 1/2 block.
>
> then all the sudden a switch gets turned on in the old noggin.
> i stop in the middle of the street.
>
> turn & walk back to my wife.
> the blonde continues to chase him around the corner screaming.
>
> just then i hear the screech of tires spinning on wet bricks.
>
> they where a group of three people from Britain.
> kind of sucks, but they probably can afford the loss of a few buck.
>
> i didn't want to get shot or stabbed.
> almost a hero, but free range chicken...
>
>
>
> _____
>
>
>
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