Come with me on a little journey for a moment, will you? Let's go to McDonald's, and if you don't like McDonald's then let's just pretend that you are just along for the ride. So we pull up to the drive through and a crackled voice erupts over the intercom speaker. "Are you ready?"
"Oh, uh, one minute please."
"Sure."
A moment passes, "I am ready." Silence. "I am ready." Is this thing broken? I chill blows through the window and my stomach growls. "Hello?"
"You ready?" The male voice comes off more as a large sigh then a question.
"Yes, I'll have a Big Mac meal please, no ketchup"
"What size?"
"Large." After all I did just workout and I feel like damaging some of that progress I had just made.
"Large?"
"Yes." Now I am starting to feel guilty about the large option that I was so confidant about seconds ago.
"What to drink?"
"Coke, no ice."
"No ice?"
"Correct."
"Really?"
I reevaluate my decision, yes no ice. "Yes."
"OK a biggie size number one with no ketchup and a coke no ice."
"Yes." I cringe a little, biggie size sounds so much worse then large.
"OK, that'll be $5.75 at the first window."
We pull up to the first window and they swipe my card. On to the next drive through window, you know the one, the one where they throw your food at you. I open the bag eagerly, for any picky person knows you have to check your food, only to discover that it is wrong. When the mistake is presented, they fix it. Nice of them but no apologies were made, more like a "dang you are picky" look. Well, yes I am picky but the last thing I want at a drive through window is to be judged.
I feel as if I must say that this has not happened to me at any local McDonald's but the point is still there. Some of these people HATE their job. I know it is a drive through at a fast food place and it may not be their dream job where they are raking in the dough, but it is still their job. The lesson in this, no matter what you do, do it with pride because whether you like it or not, what you do represents you. Not the title but the service in it.
I am also a writer and I work hard at it and I research as well as represent myself. This is something I have yet to get my hands dirty in but I have done an awful lot of writing, editing, reading and research. My next step is to obtain an agent. I know that the competition is tough but I work hard and most importantly I do not give up, ever. Maybe this is why I teach as well, the last things kids need is someone who is going to give up on them.
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