I Just Got Into A Heated Argument With A Guy At McDonalds -- Please Tell Me If I Was Wrong

[THUNDER HANDS]

I'm on line at McDonalds. I place my order, my food comes. Then this guy comes over and asks the counterperson: "Sorry to be a jerk, but I ordered this sundae and I'm still hungry, I was wondering if I could exchange it for a cheeseburger."

The counterperson is like, "no problem," and he takes the sundae and gives the guy the cheeseburger. Then the guy says "are you going to throw out the sundae?"

The counterperson says yes, and then the guy says "well, if your just going to throw it out, could I keep the sundae?"

The counterperson says, "I don't think so, but let me ask my manager."

The manager comes over the the guy explains to him what he wants, the manager says no, and tosses the sundae in the garbage.

The guy starts to get upset.

"If you're just going to throw it out anyway, why couldn't I have just had it?" he says.

To which I jumped in: "So, essentially you want a free cheeseburger, because you want to do an imaginary exchange where you hand the guy the sundae and he hands you the cheeseburger and then hands you back the sundae."

He says back to me: "But they're going to throw it out anyway, why not just give it to me."

"Why not just pay for the cheeseburger?" I reply.

"Because I could give the sundae to some homeless person on the street," he says back.

"Do you see any homeless people around here?" I said. There weren't any, this is a suburban neighborhood.

"I could though, and it doesn't cost them anything to give me the sundae back because they're just going to throw it out." he says.

"But it is going to cost them for the cheeseburger, because you're not paying for it," I said.

"what do you care?" he says.

"I don't," I said. "I just think you're trying to get free food."

"So you think I'm greedy?" he asked.

"Yeah, basically. You don't want to pay for a $1 cheeseburger."

"Well, you're an asshole," he replied.

"Yeah, but at least I'm not an idiot who orders ice cream in 30-degree weather," I said, and at that point I grabbed my food and left. I don't know why I got into this argument, but it just made me upset that some people think they're so smart that they can just scam food.


Was I wrong for getting in this argument?

[Midlodemocrat]

1. No. He was an asshole.

[Parche]

2. Go to carls jr next time

:woohoo: :hi:

[Danger Mouse]

15. I hear their new extra big ass burrito has more molecules.

[rug]

3. What kind of sundae?

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I'm glad you called him out on it - stupid people are killing this country.

While I hate the amount of food that fast food places waste, the manager was right to toss the sundae just to teach the asshole leach a lesson on not being an asshole.

I doubt that he's learned anything, but one can always hope.

[KittyWampus]

42. I think the manager should have given the sundae to MagicRat....

[LeftyFingerPop]

5. I do that all the time. They always give me both the cheeseburger and the sundae.

They are just going to throw it out anyway.

[Lex]

6. I blame McDonalds

for giving the guy a free cheeseburger. They caused the whole problem. :P

[semillama]

7. I think you should submit that to notalwaysright.com

http://notalwaysright.com/

Is That A Tumor In Your Pocket…
Pet Store | Canada

(A customer is looking in our pet store’s front window at our display of hamsters, rats and mice.)

Customer: “I want to make a complaint.”

Me: “Sure, would you like me to get the store manager?”

Customer: “Yes, right this minute.”

(I get the manager.)

Manager: “Yes, ma’am, what seems to be the problem?”

Customer: “I can’t believe you would actually have sick rats on display in the front window! I am going to call the humane society and have this store shut down! I am sickened that would actually have poor rats that have CANCER in the storefront window!”

Manager: “… cancer?”

Customer: ” YES! Just look at the size of those TUMORS on the poor backsides of all those rats in that cage!”

Manager: “Um, ma’am… those are their testicles. They are full grown male rats.”

Customer: *blushes* “… oh. Sorry.”

[JVS]

32. Those customers are scary. I think they're crazy

[DS1]

8. Lemmie tell you about that time I wanted a Whammyburger

hooo boy

[Shine]

9. No, you were wrong for eating at McDonalds in the first place.

:D

seriously, I will NEVER step foot in there again or eat any of their food after watching the movie "Supersize Me!"

Yuckola. :puke:

[Midlodemocrat]

11. McDonald's has the best unsweet tea, EVAH.

And, the extra large SuperSize is only $1.05

Hi, Shine.

:hug:

[Shine]

12. Freakazoid.

:hug:

[LostinVA]

13. Like I'm going to listen to someone who shops at fucking WALMART

[Midlodemocrat]

17. Hi!! Welcome to DU!!!

:hi:

[LostinVA]

19. Thanks for your concern

[petronius]

18. They do, don't they? I've always liked their coffee, but I hadn't realized that

I've never been disappointed with their tea. I wonder if I could trade them this cheeseburger for a tea... Hmmm...

[Midlodemocrat]

22. People here that drink sweet tea say that it is the best as well.

[rurallib]

10. no - I probably would have too

Sometimes I just can't keep my mouth shut. And I especially hate it when some jerk comes up with what he thinks is a cute little scam that he tries to intimidate the help into giving in to him. Often the help at McD's is high school kids. If not they have all been trained not to make a scene. No doubt this was at a busy time where this idiot thinks he can get a lot of sympathy.
I have stepped in at grocery and other retail checkouts when it appears someone is trying to pull a fast one. I have had daughters who were checkers and sales help and this kind of crap just really pisses me off.
And in cases where I have been given too much change, I always try to make it right. Employees can easily lose a job over a small error like that.

[underpants]

14. I, for one, am not going to STAND HERE and let you bad mouth the United States of America!

[Richardo]

39. .

:rofl:

[underpants]

43. ..

Happy Thanksgiving

[Richardo]

45. Likewise, pal

:pals:

[143tbone]

16. You were wrong in being in a McDonalds in the first place. Where'd ya go next? Walmart? n/t

[petronius]

20. The dude was a scamming douchebag. For some people, ripping off

fast food places for a dollar or two is apparently a life-long desire - I don't really know why.

My high school job was selling fast food at Disneyland, and people would come up with the most inane stories to scam us for a dollar. Like they could only be happy in the magic kingdom if they'd managed to screw mickey out of some pocket change. :shrug:

[Pale Blue Dot]

21. Yes. You were wrong for saying "on line". It's "in line".

And I'm thankful every day that I'm out of retail.

[amitten]

30. OP must be from the east coast. They always say "on line"

instead of "in line".

Why? No one knows.

[NewJeffCT]

36. I'm from the East Coast

I say "in line" and never have heard "on line"

[AirmensMom]

37. No they don't.

I'm from the east coast and I've never said it. Neither has anyone in my family. It's actually one of my pet peeves.

Seems to have started with the internet. At least that's when I started hearing it.

"Were you online yesterday?"
"No, but I stood on line at the McD's."

:banghead:

[AbbeyRoad]

23. You were right

It sounds like he was trying to pull a fast one.

I think the only situation where it would be ok to let him keep the sundae would be if there had been some sort of screwup of his order and for whatever reason they had given him a sundae instead of a cheeseburger. In that sort of situation, I think it's ok to keep the original item as a sort of recompense.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

24. Hell no!

Great minds think alike! I'd probably have done the same thing....... :)

[harmonicon]

25. I witnessed a similar exchange at a wendy's once

However, the difference was that they guy's order was messed up, and he had the receipt to prove it. They wanted to take his one sandwich back and throw it away and give him the right one. He argued that he could just go give it to a hungry person or a hitchhiker (this was at a truck stop in the southwest - no shortage of people who would have loved that free burger), but they wouldn't budge. I can't remember what they guy ended up doing.

[astral]

26. You're just mad 'cuz you had to pay for your hamburger

and he didn't. He is obviously smarter than you and that pisses you off.

Hah, seriesly, though, it's pretty funny he would make such a big deal out of scamming a free meal out of McDonald's, even **AFTER** he succeeded in getting his free meal.

Give the guy the benefit of the doubt -- maybe he really was hungry and didn't have money for a hamburger . . . .

Either that or it was Just His Lucky Day ~~~~~~~~!

When My Lucky Day comes, it's gonna be the Lottery, not a McDonald's Hamburger!

[Shell Beau]

27. Who trades a cheeseburger for a sundae? I mean, really, who does that?He is lucky they allowed that.

What a dumbass!

[elleng]

28. No, you were right.

I'm gonna eat my chocolate!

[JVS]

29. You should have tazed that hamburger mooching motherfucker!

[Lucian]

31. Yes, you were.

One, it wasn't any of your business, and two, what would it have hurt for the guy to have the sundae? They fucking threw it out.

[Richardo]

40. He used it to pay for a cheeseburger - they could do whatever they wanted.

If it were me, I would have offered it to another customer or an employee.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. McDonalds shouldn't have agreed to take the sundae back...

If there was something wrong with it, it'd be fine to exchange it. If he received the sundae when he didn't order it, it'd be ok to give him the cheeseburger and the sundae as well.

But this guy was a bullshit artist. He was looking for a handout.

Good for you for giving him hell.

[enigmatic]

34. He was scamming

Anybody who has worked in Food Sevice has seen that kind of scam 100's of times; if I had been behind the counter I would have offered it free of charge to anybody in line except for him.

You were right.

[Zavulon]

35. The only mistake you made was

not smacking the stupid fuck. I've heard some stories of assholes in fast food restaurants, but this one takes the cake.

[hippywife]

38. I'd have done the same thing you did.

It seems like in every facet of life these days there are dishonest people who don't consider anyone but themselves in the bullshit they try to pull and I'm getting sick of it.

People go through life like they are totally insulated from those around them with absolutely no clue that the crap they pull does have an impact.

It's good for someone like that to see that it's not just the manager who saw through him but others around him, as well.

More people need to speak up when they see bullshit like this on any scale because in the end we all pay for it.

[AngryAmish]

41. Tell him if he gives you the cheeseburger that you'll gladly repay him next Tuesday

[taterguy]

44. Seriously, why did you call him an idiot for ordering a sundae?

Some people enjoy ice cream no matter what the temperature is outside.

It's not an indicator of intelligence, just personal taste.

So yes, you were wrong.

[Ellen Forradalom]

46. You were absolutely in the right.

That's gotta be the most wretched scam I've heard of in ages. This guy went to all that effort over a McDonald's cheeseburger and sundae, for God's sake, and wasn't particularly subtle about it. You were quite right to call him out on it.

[MilesColtrane]

47. The guy behind the counter should have opened the burger up, tongued the patty,...

...then handed it back to him.

[redqueen]

48. No, you weren't wrong.

I think the counterperson was wrong to have "exchanged" food in the first place.

Who the hell does that?

:crazy:

[applegrove]

49. Sometimes when someone is being really ignorant with a store clerk I have

stepped in. I just cannot stand people being nasty to others.

[geomon666]

50. What's wrong with ice cream on a cold day?

Ice cream is good everyday. That's the only problem I had with the argument. Good job putting a moron in his place.

[NJmaverick]

51. The guy was a con artist

trying to scam some free food. If anything you were way too nice to him.