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the last time i ate inside a fast food place

i watched a dude, who was alone, eating his burger get up from his table and walk into the bathroom with his burger, still eating it, then 3 minutes later come back out still finishing it off

this was before covid and i still think about it sometimes

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  • Many years ago, at an airport, I saw a guy come out of a bathroom stall and go to the sinks - where he had left his half-eaten sandwich. He left without washing his hands. This was in Akron and it is the only thing I can think of whenever anyone mentions the state of Ohio.

  • Did he leave other food at the table? This almost seems like one of those social anxiety things where he was worried it would get thrown out if he left it on the table

    • left his fries and drink

      he was holding the burger with the wrapper as you might imagine. i dunno if he washed his hands but if he did then he definitely would have set it on the sink counter in there, with the wrapper, of course

  • This year, COVID very much still a think, I watched someone eat straight off a conference room table. No plate, no napkin, not even a fucking tissue. Dude had a notebook he could have opened up to a blank page that would probably be cleaner than a fucking communal conference room table... I think about that almost every time I see this person, and I tighten my mask when they are around.

    I feel like the general public is irredeemable at this point...

  • lmao, don't let a #2 stop from enjoying your #4 w/ cheese.

    ...

    about 10 years ago, i had just moved to a city i was starting a job at. i got there about an hour earlier than i was scheduled to meet up with the landlord to get the keys and that sort of stuff, so i went up the street to a McDonalds to caffeinate and scroll on their wifi and basically just do nothing. it's like barely 8 am when i watch this guy take his dine-in tray of breakfast (sandwich, hashbrowns, coffee) and walk right passed the dining area and into the bathroom. he came out like 10 minutes later sipping the coffee and left.

    i still think about that event sometimes.

  • Even though it’s been a long time, I still have this memory from the ’90s (possibly early ’00s) of going to McDonald’s with a parent and seeing a young uniformed woman at a table, looking sad and hopeless. She was dressed like she was supposed to be working in the back but she was just sitting there with her arms on the table, looking depressed. I stared at her for so long that she noticed me.

    I always wondered… did she just lose her job?

    Since I was only a shy little kid, I said nothing to her, but it is an old memory that’s always haunted me.

    I have a feeling that I would have forgotten if she were dressed casually, because seeing a fast‐food worker actually sitting alone at one of the tables (and not eating anything either) looks very unusual. If she lost her job then that would raise the question of why she was still wearing her uniform; my guess is that former workers are supposed to turn those in rather than keep them, but I have no clue.

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