I love to hate McDonald's

So I have 3 kids, and obviously we visit McDonald's on a regular basis. I have to admit, the food is pretty tasty. I'm sure it's the addictive chemicals. Whatever the reason, who can resist the fries, right?

But seriously, folks, why oh why can't the service be any better? I mean, I get it. People are working for 8 bucks an hour and you can't live on it. But why can't I ever get what I ordered? Or napkins even? When you order 3 Happy Meals, wouldn't it stand to reason you might have kids?

Today I ran through the drive thru, sort of, for breakfast. I got off work at 7:30 and met Sean and the kids. Normally we would go home for breakfast, but Ryan has a camp at 9 AM all week so by the time we get home he doesn't have time to eat and tyurn around and go back to town. So we're doing Dunkin' Donuts and stuff all week when I'm working. Today we decided on McDonald's. Ryan loves the Bacon, Egg, and Cheese biscuits and the girls love hash browns.

So I pull into the stupid double drive thru, where no matter what, I always pick the wrong lane. I get to the speaker and they say "Hello, hold on a moment" and I said "Ok."

So I sat there, while they took the orders for 5 cars in the other lane. 5!!!! WTF?? So I started calling "Hello? Hello???" and the lady said "I'm sorry for your wait, hold on just a moment please."

Geez!!!

2 more cars order in the other lane so I just pulled out of line and went inside. I didn't want to because I had the kids in the car, but I figured at that rate it would be February before we got breakfast.

So I ordered our food. I order Kayla and Jordan a child size orange drink to share and they gave me a small. They figure right now the drinks are all 89 cents, so they always do that to me. Problem is the cup is too big. I just wanted to get out of there so I didn't try to exchange it.

Went out to my van, gave Ryan and Kayla their drinks, started to hand out hash browns when Kayla dropped her cup and I had 16oz of Hi-C flowing down the center aisle of my van. I grabbed the stack of napkins I got, which I probably wouldn't have had driving thru to clean it up. I sent Ryan in with her cup to refill it halfway, secretly hoping someone would come outside and tell me it wasn't allowed since I got it to go. I cleaned up all the ice and orange drink with the napkins and threw the dirty napkins in the parking lot. I doubt it's the manager or drive thru person who will have to clean it up but I was still mad.

My latest labor & delivery triage call

...went something like this:

Me: "Labor and delivery, this is Kelli."

Caller: "Hi this is Kim*, a patient advisory nurse. I have a patient on the phone who is 23 weeks pregnant and she has a question."

Me: "Ok. I can help you."

Kim: "She stepped on a rusty nail today and now her foot is swelling up."

This is the part where I really wanted to say "Does she have a 23-week fetus coming out of her foot? Because that's what I do. Triaging medical calls is what YOU do. But I thought I'd be polite.

Me: "Is she having any problems pregnancy wise right now?"

Kim: "No, just the swollen foot."

Me: "Ok, then that's an emergency room type of call. She probably needs a tetanus shot. We don't treat that kind of thing up here."

Kim: "Ok, I'll just talk to her then!"

Maybe I should be a little nicer in my head even, but I keep getting stupid calls from patients.

"Hi, I just had sex with my boyfriend. Do you think I could be pregnant?"

"Did you use any form of birth control?"

"No."

"Then yes. But you won't know for a couple of weeks."

That girls sounded like she was about 14.


"Hi, I'm 25 weeks pregnant and I have a pain in my shoulder, like a pulled muscle kind of, but I was wondering if it could possibly be pre-term labor?"

"Do you have any pains in your belly or in your back, or do you have any vaginal bleeding or fluid leaking?"

"No, just my right shoulder, like I said, kind of like I pulled a muscle."

"Ok, you probably pulled a muscle then. Take some Tylenol and put a warm pack on it."

Really, not every injury or illness is related to pregnancy, even if you are actually pregnant. Could you have stepped on a rusty nail not pregnant? Of course! Are you going to visit the labor and delivery unit for treatment? Of course not, you'd go to the ER! So why would you call me now???

All moved!

Well, it's been awhile since an update. We closed on our house june 18 after a very stressful week of not knowing whether we were going to be approved for sure or not. Evidently everyone is jumping on the low interest rates and $8000 tax credit (cha-ching!) like we did and the underwriting department of the mortgage company isn't able to review applications until the day before closing. Ugh. But we finally got it all approved and moved.

Well maybe not all moved in.

We have a 3 car garage and one whole section is filled with boxes. All of the necessities are in the house though, which makes me wonder what I actually NEED out there. We've been living in here just fine. Perhaps I should just get a dumpster and pitch everything. Actually all of our DVD's and books are still out there. I know I am going to want those. And my Cowboys paraphernalia which Sean doesn't know yet but is going to be our bedroom decor. I'm not getting rid of it.

So come on over, see my new house!