whine and cheese(burgers)

12:05am, ravenous, nothing is open. In desperation we order sandwiches and icewater at McDonalds drivethru. "We no longer give waters here." "Well, can we pay for them?" "Yes." Turns out they're .99 apiece, just like a soda.
Then apparently they had to cook everything from scratch, including possibly raising the wheat for the buns, because we had to park at least 10 minutes at the famous "second window", which is an eternity in drive-thru land. No one said "It will just be a minute." or "It'll be 10 minutes, sorry."
When our order finally came, they handed it to us wordlessly. No "Sorry for the delay." No extra fries or apple turnover thing thrown in. All in all, the least efficient drive-thru experience of my life.

All of which I share just to show that in whinging about the above I am actually no better than people I was making fun in my mind of the next day.

Person #1, on cell phone in airport: "Yeah, it turns out you can't check your bags more than 4 hours before your flight. Yes, so we had to wait around for an hour with our bags. But we got through that, and then..."
Bryan, to himself: You "got through that"? What was it you "got through" again? Let's see, I think it was sitting in one place for an hour. No discomfort, reponsibilities, no effort of any kind. Oh, the humanity.

Person #2, sitting next to me on the plane: "Well, I had a choice -- I could wait for my United flight, and get home two and a half hours late, or I could bite the bullet and take a middle seat on this flight. I decided to go with the middle seat..."
It’s this kind of courage that inspires us all...