After having cocktails with Peggy and friends downtown, Jason and I rode the train back up to Edgewater. Jason wanted to do a McDonalds stop. I didn't know whether it would still be open. It was raining and it's very hard for two adult men to share an umbrella, especially when one of those adult men HOG it. Kidding. Anyway, the doors where closed but the 24 hour drive thru was still open. So we walked over to the drive thru speaker thing and I pretended I was driving and was acting silly. There was a young guy behind us who was also hungry and walking through the “thru”. I laughed and asked him what kind of car HE was driving. Without batting an eye he said, “a Ford.”
As we stood by the speaker, nobody responded. What was it? Did you HAVE to be in a car? Was it the weight of the car activating some kind of signaling device or was there some kind of infra something or other that detected the car? Jason waived his hand around and in front of the speaker as if that might do the trick. Seriously, this day and age it could very well have done the trick. That's all you do now in bathrooms (if you are one of those who actually wash their hands after peeing) you wave your hands around the sink to get the water running and you wave your hand in front of the paper towel thing and sometimes you even wave your hands to get soap. Well at the Drive Thru speaker, waving hands just made you look foolish. SO the next step was to go up to the first window.
Around we went with the other guy in his “Ford” following us. Noone was at the Window. Jason tip tapped on the window. Not a soul. Were we being shunned? Then a couple of other guys appeared, College kids and they were experts at this. They pushed their way through and walked up to the second window. The funny thing was, I didn't think it was rude at all. I mean, WE were the fish out of water (even though it was raining). These guys were showing us how it was done.
Now while all of this was going on, cars were lining up as well and they apparantly were allowed to USE the speaker thing to put in their order. It was very odd to be standing amidst all these cars in line at McDonalds and car horns started honking. The people in the cars seemed to think that there was a problem because we were standing in line, but the real problem was someone who was in a CAR had a funky credit card. Then I started to think how stupid the whole thing was because we weren't getting to place our order and the cars had priority and I thought, what was the big difference whether or not we had a car around us? But the CAR people had priority. The College kid who seemed to know what he was doing was standing over by the window and a guy in a car a couple of cars down started getting mad. He started beeping his horn and the College kid started yelling at him and then the guy in the car did the weirdest thing. He rolled down his window and shouted, “Bring it ON Tits!” to the College kid. He also had some odd hand gesture. I had no idea what it meant. I was assuming “fuck you” but who knows. What was this “bring it on tits” thing? What did that mean? Why did he call this guy “tits?” I thought of the movie “Anchor Man” and how Will Ferrel jokingly refers to Christine Applegate as “Tits McGee”.
“Bring it on Tits!” I filed it away and hope to use it someday. I will be sure though that using that phrase will NOT get my ass beaten. I think it's funny, the way those straight guys talk.