2007.09.05
The Secret $15.39 Value Meal at McDonalds
I simply decided to eat at Mc-fucking Donalds. I paid and ordered the quarter pounder meal. It was 5.39. I paid with a twenty. I only got four dollars in return. I then nicely said that I paid with a twenty but only got four back.
In a normal world I'd just get my ten back. Hell I know I wasn't lying, I just went to the bank and all the cash I had on me were twenties.
But then all this shit happened.
Now first and foremost I'll mention that both the fucking cashier and manager were women. The cashier was an old nasty ass white woman. The manager was a middle aged Hispanic woman.
I just needed my ten dollars back.
The cashier grabs out all the money from the cashier machine and says that she can't do this because it'll mess up all the finances in the day.
It was her fucking mistake.
I just needed a fucking ten dollar bill.
I JUST NEEDED A MOTHER FUCKING TEN DOLLAR BILL BACK.
In this day and fucking age where women demand equal rights and go on about how much smarter they are than men; how hard could it be to just give a customer back her ten fucking dollars from a mother fucking twenty dollar bill.
WAS IT REALLY FUCKING NECESSARY FOR HER TO TALK TO HER MANAGER ABOUT THE CASE. NO MATTER WHAT EXCUSE THEY FUCKING MADE THAT COULDN'T EXPLAIN WHY THEY COULDN'T SIMPLY GIVE ME MY TEN FUCKING DOLLARS BACK.
The cashier told me to just go and eat my meal while she settles the manner. I ate my fucking meal and came back hoping to get my ten back.
She then said to me:
"We can't do it. It'll mess up our finances for today. I charged you for ten so I can't give the ten back."
There so many fucking vulgarities I'd like to say but I can't even form a sentence because I can't believe how fucking stupid a person could be.
She then forwarded me to her manager.
Oh shit, her manager was also another dumbass woman. Who let these women out, why aren't they behind a kitchen cooking shit, doing shit they know how to do, not wearing suits acting like they're better than a customer when they can't even just fix a simple fucking mistake.
I just needed my ten back.
After a crass argument, even her showing me the finances and HOW SCREWED they'd be if they gave me my ten dollar back, the ten that I was originally supposed to get back because I paid with a fucking twenty dollar bill, after getting over my rage about how I wanted to just reach over, grab her fucking head, smash it on the counter till she gave me my mother fucking ten back, I walked off.
I don't got the money to go to jail.
I didn't want to see this shit on the news about how some Asian woman smashed a white woman's head on the counter in McDonalds for not giving her fucking ten back. Though if that were on the news they'd make up some shit about me being the minority that I am so that the idiotic white woman wouldn't be at fault. They'd also insert a line from the manager going "In all my years wearing this suit acting like I'm the shit because I PWN this fucking McDonalds I have never seen a customer so rude!"
I just needed my fucking ten dollars back.
I just needed ten.
I just needed my change - ten dollars.
Ten fucking dollars.
Ten mother fucking dollars.
I then left paying a McDonalds meal for 15 dollars and 39 cents. When I left they both looked at me like they were made of so much win because they made me ten dollars poorer.
I am made of so much rage now. I really just want to go back there and slam their faces into the counter or cashier - hell slamming their heads on the cashier sounds so much better because then the cashier would open and I could get my ten back!
But I had to be civil.
I had to let these women who should be in the kitchen or doing shit they know how to do well (I don't know, iron clothes - hell they could hang themselves with a tie if they wanted!) win and take my fucking ten.
They left with my fucking ten.
I lost that battle.
I hate losing.
But I had to let those dumbasses win.
Fuck this.
You know at the very fucking least they could've gave me some "free shit" that'd also equal ten bucks at least - but no.
I just paid for the fucking 15 dollar and 39 cent value meal that no one has ever heard of before.
Oh and about my rude sexist comments about women - how could I say that being a woman myself? Well I've never even seen men this stupid before. This truly is shit that only a woman could do.
2008.3.18 UPDATE
I never posted about the aftermath of that incident. I was so pissed off I of course couldn't keep that to myself and went to the McDonalds site to file a complaint. I felt good just filing a complaint and expected nothing back. A week later I got a phone call at work from a McDonalds representative who said they were looking into the matter. They asked if I ever got the money back and I said I didn't. They offered me a $20 food certificate in place of the $10 I lost. Since I had a shitty work and school schedule (I was pretty much out five days a week from 7:00AM - 9:30PM) I knew I wouldn't be able to go to the mall and pick it up so I asked them to mail it to me.
It never came.
I had the opportunity to complain about that too but I unfortunately checked my professional email too late (I don't always check it) and when I finally got to read an email where I had the chance to respond about how they settled the manner it was too late to reply. But on the other hand the next time I went to the mall I saw that neither the manager or crazy fuck cashier was working there anymore. I was glad of course and decied to eat there to celebrate! While I didn't get my ten back the new manager didn't charge me for my fries. I doubt she knew who I was but well - I wasn't complaining!
I did also have another incident (not at McDonalds) where the cashier charged me for more than I was supposed to pay. The cashier was completely civil about it though. She told me she'd give me my money back while I was eating and she actually did come from behind the cashier to look for me at the food court and gave me my change. It's nice to know some people aren't too prideful over making their own mistakes.