I love finding irony in the world, especially when it is usually overlooked by many people. For example, the other day I was in the car with my family in the drive-thru at McDonald’s. Now, I do not eat fast food often, and if I do it is usually at 2:30 in the morning when I’m so drunk and hungry that I don’t care what I eat as long as it is greasy and filling. However, it was ten o’clock at night, and my little brother had just gotten done playing a football game. He hadn’t had any dinner that night, as he had to be at the field at five o’clock, so on our way home we stopped to get him some food. When we pulled up, there was already a car in line placing an order, we followed it around to the window. As the driver waited for her food, I noticed she had a license plate frame with a “clever” saying on it.
The license plate read: “The #1 Question: Is It Good For The Children?”
I couldn’t help but laugh at this ironic situation. Here is an overweight woman (I am not stereotyping, I could see her through the window). probably buying McDonalds for herself, and possibly her family. I assume she has children, because only parents would put that kind of license plate frame on their car; and since she was handed a few bags through the window, I am also assuming they were not all for her. How can she be sitting in line at MCDONALD’S of all places asking the number one question: “is it good for the children?”.
No, McDonald’s is NOT good for your children. As a matter of fact, it is one of the worst things you could feed your child. If people are so ready to put bumper stickers or license plate frames on their cars, and wear t-shirts with catchy slogans about how they are model citizens, it would be nice to see them actually live up to the standards they set for the rest of society.
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