These audacious words were delivered at a local fast food restaurant. "Will you be dining in?" Dining in? What presumption! I'm at a fast food place, there is no dining in! Yes, I'll be eating at the place and not taking my order out in a flimsy paper bag with giant initials. I'll be shoveling the food in my face faster than you can say Frankie Robinson and using my fingers to boot. At some intervals I will also bypass my face and drop the foodstuff on my casual attire; jeans, misbuttoned shirt, unlaced sneakers, non-made up face. That is why we go there in the first place, so we can forego the formalities.
In our later years with our relaxed selves in full array, we may choose to go casual when 'dining out' at a fast food establishment. We are hungry and time is of the essence. Order, no waiter necessary; sit, always a table available; open the box or bag as it may be and eat. Little fuss, little to no muss, then on your way to other matters.
I know all the todo being levied over this industry: too much fat, sugar, calories and of course, it's all true. What is also true is that due to convenience and small need to kowtow to public convention, we will continue to frequent these fast food places.
Supersize me, please.
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