Woman's 'spiteful' revenge on rude McDonald's customer after long drive-thru queue – The Mirror
A woman split opinions online after revealing how she exacted revenge on a rude fellow McDonald’s customer when tempers frayed during a huge queue for the drive-thru
When the urge for a McDonald's strikes, there's nothing worse than being greeted by a gigantic queue.
And although most of us would be happy to wait our turn, there are others who get impatient and demand speedy service, which can create tense situations for the people ahead of them in the queue.
That's the experience one woman claimed to have had when she shared her story on social media and said that she'd been placing her order at her local McDonald's drive-thru when the woman in the car behind her began honking her horn in an attempt to get her to hurry up.
The unnamed woman, who lives in Canberra, Australia, found this to be extremely rude, so she hatched a plan to get revenge on the other driver, starting by paying for her order.
In a post on the Canberra Notice Board group on Facebook, she said: "I was in a long McDonald's drive-thru this morning and the young lady behind me honked her horn because I was taking too long to place my order.
"I thought to myself, 'take the high road'. So when I paid for my food at the first window, I paid for both our orders.
"The lad at the counter must have told her what I'd done as she leaned out the window, waved and mouthed 'thank you', obviously embarrassed I had repaid her rudeness with kindness."
But the revenge didn't stop there, as the woman's plan wasn't about being kind.
She added: "So when I got to the second window I showed both receipts and took her food too. Now she has to go back to the end of the queue and start all over again."
However, after the story went viral, the woman admitted that it was actually an old tale, and she'd shared it again in the hopes of cheering people up. She claimed the incident at the drive-thru actually happened a few years ago, not to her, but to one of her friends who lives in Ireland.
She told Yahoo News Australia she posted it simply to "give people a laugh and a change from the hate and violence being spread".
"It's been going around for years," she added. Despite this, the post did as intended and gave fellow Facebook users a good laugh – although some thought it was "spiteful". One person said: "How spiteful". Another commented: "Funny – but not good. As the old saying, two wrongs don't make a right."
Someone else posted: "I had to read this a few times, picture the scene, and the glory. A triumphant win."
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A version of this story previously appeared online on January 17, 2023
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