Welcome to the Bloggy Blog where I write down random thoughts from the week. Not Every week. Just whenever.
TikTok:
If you search “Radiohead Creep Dance” on TikTok you’ll find a trend where Gen Z kids have created a fun TikTok dance to Radiohead’s Creep. I will admit that I felt a twinge of confusion and maybe even possibly anger when first coming across this trend. Is nothing sacred? Creep has long been the anthem to outsiders and loners, smoking and crying alone on a dimly lit stairwell, but no longer. Now a corner of the internet has claimed that song as their dance ditty.
Maybe I shouldn’t be asking, “why don’t these kids show respect to this song that came out 20 years before they were born??” But rather, “Why do I expect kids to feel the same way about a song they have no emotional attachment to?” Also, music should be fun. Also we’re all just lifeforms floating on a rock in space and we completely made up language and art and music and we can do whatever we want with it.
But I feel like letting myself feel some kind of way about kids flailing their arms to Creep is what leads to stuff like 90-year-old politicians. We can respect things without being beholden to them. The fact that the kids are dancing to Creep, and acknowledge the song exists at all is a win in a world drowning in content.
"Free" Fries:
Capitalism loses once again. There are 3 McDonalds within driving distance from where I live, and over the last year all three have been extending their drive through process.
Normally the process of going through the drive through involves 2, sometimes 3 stops of the car. Stop 1: The menu- where you order the food. Stop 2: The pay window- where you pay for your food, Stop 3: The food window- where you get your order. (Sometimes there’s only one window where you pay and get your food- but in this particular instance all the McDonalds I’m talking about have 2 windows)
Lately the local McDonalds have turned the Food window into the drink window, and then they ask the customer to pull around to the front or side of the restaurant and wait for the food to be brought out.
I hate it when they do this.
I assume this is an adopted practice because McDonalds tracks how quickly they can push cars through their drive throughs and asking cars to pull around to the side of the store was some kind of cheat to make it seem like more customers where being handled more quickly, and the practice just caught on.
So today I found myself in the McDonald’s Drive Through where I ordered a burger and fries and a drink, and they asked me to pull around to the side of the building where a whole slew of cars were parked waiting for their food.
Eventually a worker came out to me, in one hand he was holding a drink carrying case with 2 drinks and an ice cream, and in the other a bag of food. He called out my exact order, so I said “yes that’s mine” thinking he was just going to hand me the bag, but instead he handed me the bag and the drinks. The bag was much heavier than it should have been.
The bag had 3 large fries, a burger, and a 20 chicken nuggets.
“Oh, this isn’t my order.” I said.
And the worker, a young man who certainly doesn’t get paid enough to care said, “bro- just take it.”
And I thought about it for a second… and I thought about how I have two roommates who like McDonalds fries.
So I took it, and my roommates got fries.
I felt bad for the person’s order I took. I’m sure McDonalds remade their meal, and maybe they got a coupon or something out of the deal.
But also those people ordered 20 McNuggets without any sauce, so they may have been serial killers as well.
But you know… as I watched my roommates eat those free fries I thought- None of this would have happened if McDonalds had just given me my food at the food window, that is what it was built for. And maybe if they paid their employees more to care, and maybe if they were’t so focused on analytics then everyone would have gotten their order correctly to begin with.
All that said, I guarantee I’ve thought more about taking someone’s $30 dollars worth of McDonalds and all the things that led up to that point than any McDonald’s executive ever will.
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