Oh man, did I look like the epitome of welfare today. I took Avery
and Aria to their riding lessons today, so afterwards I thought it’d be
nice to go to McDonalds and let them play and eat lunch. Now, when the
girls were younger (say, 2 and 5ish) we could get out of Mc D’s for
like $5 on the dollar menu. I’d bring their sippy cups, we’d rock the
Dollar Menu items and voila, cheapo meal.
Well, today we get there and of course the girls are now 5 and 7 so
they want Happy Meals and 6 piece nuggets and a burger and all that
jazz. I told them, nuggets or a burger (nuggets was their choice) so I
figured, I’ll get four 4-piece nuggets for all 3 kids to split and the
girls can each get a drink and fries and I’ll get a meal and split my
fries with Porter. I was tryin to get out of this cheap, ok guys?
So I get up in line and I remembered this card our Realtor gave us-
you get a free Dollar Menu item if you purchase a meal. I’m ordering
and at the same time rooting around in my wallet frantically for this
freaking DOLLAR coupon, and the lady goes "I know what you’re talking
about, don’t worry about it, I’ll just take the dollar off" (OMG was
she feeling bad for me or what).
Then Avery chimes in "We can’t get Happy Meals?!" I was ticked at
her ungratefulness, after all, I was being nice and taking them to
McDonalds, so I turn to her and snap "No, you don’t get Happy Meals. I
told you that in the car. You can either be happy that we’re here to
play and eat lunch, or we can go. What is your choice?" (I’m sure the
cashier was thinking, "Jeez lady, just splurge a little and get your
kid the freaking $3 Happy Meal!")
And THEN THEN!!! I run my debit card through. And what does it
say? NON SUFFICIENT FUNDS!! What the hell! I wanted the greasy tile
floor to swallow me up. I felt like such a welfare rat! Of course, I
mutter something along the lines of "Oh sheesh! Thats weird, I know
there’s money in there. I wonder why it didn’t go through" (which,
honestly, I did wonder, as Ry got paid yesterday so there SHOULD have
been money in our account!). I quickly grabbed my business account
card and ran that through and it was accepted (that account DOES have
money, for sure!).
I took our tray full of dollar menu items and followed the line of
moms clinging to their Happy Meal bags into the play area, feeling like
such a cheapskate.
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OMG. I feel for you. lol. I’ve had that happen at the grocery store. Try to pay with the debit card at the grocery store, got rejected (who knows why), so I had to put back like half my groceries (only had like $100 in cash on me) in front of a 6 person line at the cash register all while this lady behind me is sighing really loud and asking me “Why I just didn’t use my bridge card” SOOO EMBARRASSED. I swear I almost cried. Anyways, I love your Disney book. I would love to know, along with a few other people from the looks of it, where you got it done. That would be so cool for Jocelyn’s first year of many many pictures I have yet to still scrapbook. 😀