Super-Cool People We Saw at McDonald's

McDonald's, in and of itself, is probably my least favorite place in the world. Even though I'm only semi-vegan right now, during my pregnancy, I still have a hard time finding anything worth eating there. Even the yogurt parfait tastes like a gelatinous mass with high fructose corn syrup added. And it's always dirty, with the sticky tables and the wadded up napkins on the floor and the noisy, screaming children in the play area, none of whom are ever mine, of course.

That being said, when my mother and I had charge of the twins alone, as all of the older children were traveling with Dad on their way to Washington, we sometimes became so desperate to entertain them, that we would take them to McDonald's just so they would have something to climb on that wasn't my mom's dining room table and wasn't a playground that was 107 degrees F in the southwest summer sun.

So we went and we stayed for two hours. To entertain ourselves, we looked for cool people and here is what we found...

The following is a group of ethnically diverse teenagers. The group caught our eye because my mother grew up in a time when children of a different skin color were forced to ride different buses and drink at different water fountains. We just loved that these kids were all together having such a good time...

My mother thought that perhaps I should ask to take their photo, but what was I going to say, "Excuse me, we really like the idea that there are blacks and whites and Latinos all eating here together and we would like to take your picture." I don't think that would have gone over too well. So, again, as with the Mennonites, I snapped a photo clandestine-style. Sorry so sinful.

The second totally cool person was THIS man in the window on the right...

He continually played and interacted with Twin B through the window and I thought he was so cool, that I dared my mother to take a picture of him. She agreed and when I asked her what she was going to say, she said that she was going to tell him that he reminded me of my dad, which he did, but much skinnier. When she received his permission and went to snap the shot, all of his construction-worker friends were laughing raucously, but he was a good sport...

One of the MOST cool people there had to be my mom, especially because she cares so much about what she looks like, even in McDonald's...

She totally had no idea I was taking her picture, even though I was sitting directly across the table from her. She is going to kill me for posting these.

And last, but not least of the cool people, the most adorable little twins who happen to have the same concentration expressions...

(I need you to know that I absolutely DID NOT purchase soda for the twins. Twin A is enthusiastically reaching for chlorinated tap water. I swear. It's water....)

My mother and I can always find the positive in any experience, even at McDonald's. Thanks for listening... :)

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