Here’s a novel way to start a new year!
A Florida woman was arrested last week when she threatened employees at a McDonald’s stand because they wouldn’t give her free dipping sauce (https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/florida-woman-arrested-for-threatening-to-get-mcdonalds-sauce-by-any-means-necessary/), declaring that she would use “any means necessary” to get it. Her tantrum frightened the crew enough to make them call the police–who had to carry her out to the squad car.
The dipping sauce in question would have cost her an extra 25 cents. So for 25 cents she went off her rocker. Apparently paying an extra quarter wasn’t included in “any means necessary.” Good thing she wasn’t armed.
The incident happened at around 4 a.m. New Year’s morning.
We’re seeing a lot of this lately, individuals blowing their stacks for incredibly trivial reasons. What is driving this?
This is our post-Christian loony-tunes participation-trophy culture melting down.
Kill the culture, and it’ll kill you back.
This is so incredible, it is almost unbelievable. I think most people who act like this are “on something”.
I’d have given her the sauce. Doesn’t the bible say something about not looking for trouble? And when it’s only 25 cents, well…
If you’ve ever worked at such a place, you’ll know that sometimes the management comes down very hard on even a tiny infraction. Of course, the cashier could’ve reached into his pocket and pulled out a quarter, just to cut off the tantrum. But it seems this woman launched herself before anyone had a chance to do anything reasonable.
Of course, that would have been reasonable. Reasonable is not something we see too often. Both sides of this situation were off base.
4 a.m. on New Year’s morning. More than likely she was drunk. And why is McDonald’s open at that hour?
It makes one wonder how such a person would react if a real problem ever occurred in their life.