What's wrong with some people?

[saddlebum]

I agree with the up to the part of the dad sitting on the car, If this would have been me I would have walk in stood back let my daughter order and paid for it...Then that point I would have taken over...

 

This isn't a perect world and my daughter was the closes thing to me or ever will be... So with that being said let them grow and be in arm reach if trouble raises, this father wasn't and he started to make the first move at a McD's employee, so he open the door...Turn the table for a second had the emp. gave her the coffee and she would have burn herself...

My thoughts exactly. If as randy say's the little girl just wanted to buy her Daddy a coffee what would have been so difficult about going in with her and sitting father and daughter at a table. Me thinks the guy was just a lazy a&&

Edited March 1, 2010 by saddlebum

[straycatt]

Sorry. I don't get it. So what were you upset about? A girl buying someone a cup of coffee for some reason that you don't have the faintest idea about and are fantasizing into all kinds of ill intent and non-existant happenings?

 

 

Randy, I owe you an apology.

I dismissed your theory out of hand as being.....less than realistic, so lets examine your thoughts.

 

A thoughtful father parks by the door so he can keep watch over his offspring as she learns independence.

No, I had to walk to the windows back towards the bathrooms to see where the girl went when she left the building.

(please note, most Tacky Macs are built the same so you can visualize scene)

 

Loving dad, wishing to accept his daughters generosity, asks for a cup of cold tea or a soda rather than the hot coffee he would like because he knows the lesson learned will be better for her than the risk the burning hot coffee he would rather have may pose to his little girl.

Again no, he demands hot coffee.

 

When his child returns without the coffee, does dear old Pop offer to accompany her back inside to retrieve his prize and salvage his youngsters feelings?

Yet again no. He, to my eye, with temper flaring tossed his kid back into the mix. To do what? Demand in her five year old voice "GIVE ME MY DAMN COFFEE"

 

Sadly, even if (big if) this jerkwad had good intentions he fell way short in either protecting or teaching his child anything other than "dads a wanker".

It should be noted that the only person that said a word to this guy was the McDonalds clerk. Had the other guy and I not been there, do you imagine dad would have exited his car just to put a friendly arm around the clerk and offer her thanks for bringing out his brew?

 

By the way, she did hand him his drink through the open window before starting in on him.

 

Being as I still type by the two finger hunt and peck method which lends itself to brevity of detail, I take the burden of omitted detail in this encounter to myself.

 

On reflection, I see your point.

But I hold to my original opinion. Dad was a jerkwad.

[a1bummer]

I think way to many people are way to willing to rip on others without bothering to take a good look at themselves.

[Blue Giant]

Regardless of Daddy's intentions or the quality of his character, you don't send a 5 or 6 year old (boy or girl) to fetch a hot cup of coffee!

 

If the young lady wanted to but Daddy a coffee he could have held her hand and walked in with her. I'm sure Daddy could have sprung for a juice at the same time, maybe even breakfast for her.

 

I don't care how you look at it or how you want to try and justify his actions, they fall well below what a responsible parent's action should have been.

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Paul

[Grey beard]

As Bill Engvall of the Blue Collar Comedy group says: "Heeere's Yer Sign"!

[oldgoat]

ok heres a thought a sign at mcdonalds that cleary says no one under 16 may purchase hot beverages? on the entrance and exit doors and posted on the drive through sign. then if daddy insist that his daughter or/son can purchase it. hes a nut case. also maybe a ltlle card saying same thing that the counter person can hand to the little girl/son stateing the fact.

 

 

and nope im not a lawyer