Fast food on a credit card

[+ purplekow]

I believe I have sunk to a personal low, though this is probably not an unusual situation for many people here in the US. Due to a peculiar set of circumstance, I found myself buying a Hamburger and Fries at a McDonald's drive through with a credit card at 2 AM. I don't really like fast food and I try not to use my credit card at all and if I do I try to pay it off at the end of the month but nevertheless there I was.

I am not sure what I found the most appalling about this. Was it that there are fast food places courting favor at 2AM and that I was the 4th car in line? Was it that I did not have enough cash to pay for the burger? Was it that I was gas sitting in my car waiting to be served?

Not exactly sure, but I am sure of this, the experience engenders some of the worst aspects of life in the US.

So guys, who here has paid for McD's with a credit card?

Have I sunk to a new low or is there another circle of Dante has store up for me?

[leigh.bess.toad]

I guess it all depends on the card. Getting airline miles for every dollar charged isn't bad. I use it to charge virtually everything. Okay, it's a check card that gets airline miles, but still, the same principal applies.

 

As far as the hour, nothing unusual there, at least for me. One of the memories I have of Palm Springs weekend this year was going out to eat at 2 AM with Dane and Ryaan. First we went to Denny's. It was closing. A Denny's closing? So we went to IHOP. It was pretty full and getting fuller. So much so that by the time we left shortly after 3 AM, there was a waiting list for a table. At an IHOP. At 3 AM.

[jjkrkwood]

I guess it all depends on the card. Getting airline miles for every dollar charged isn't bad. I use it to charge virtually everything. Okay, it's a check card that gets airline miles, but still, the same principal applies.

 

As far as the hour, nothing unusual there, at least for me. One of the memories I have of Palm Springs weekend this year was going out to eat at 2 AM with Dane and Ryaan. First we went to Denny's. It was closing. A Denny's closing? So we went to IHOP. It was pretty full and getting fuller. So much so that by the time we left shortly after 3 AM, there was a waiting list for a table. At an IHOP. At 3 AM.

 

I hope you got the "Rooty, Tootiy, Fresh and Fruity combo" ???

[Luv2play]

Bless you, purplekow. Although I never go to MacDonald's or any other fast food joint, last spring I bought some MacDonald's stock at around $79 per share. Today it is around $92, not bad considering how the stock market is doing overall these days. As an added bonus, since MacDonald's is a US stock, I paid for it when the Canadian dollar was over par, at around $1.06US. Today our dollar is below par, around $0.96US, so I have made an additional 10 percent on the exchange rate. All told, a very satisfactory investment.

[jjkrkwood]

Bless you, purplekow. Although I never go to MacDonald's or any other fast food joint, last spring I bought some MacDonald's stock at around $79 per share. Today it is around $92, not bad considering how the stock market is doing overall these days. As an added bonus, since MacDonald's is a US stock, I paid for it when the Canadian dollar was over par, at around $1.06US. Today our dollar is below par, around $0.96US, so I have made an additional 10 percent on the exchange rate. All told, a very satisfactory investment.

 

you can thank ME Luv2. Your gains are because of all the McRib sandwiches I have consumed.

[leigh.bess.toad]

you can thank ME Luv2. Your gains are because of all the McRib sandwiches I have consumed.

 

Ewwww!! Faux food at it's worst. There ought to be a law against the Mcrib.

[KMEM]

I HAVE to agree. AND, not just because Memphis has many, many outlets for delicious pork ribs.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[instudiocity]

I HAVE to agree. AND, not just because Memphis has many, many outlets for delicious pork ribs.

 

 

McDRIB, 3 lies for the price of one: 1. It ain't ribs!, 2. It ain't food, 3. It don't taste rite!

[jjkrkwood]

Ewwww!! Faux food at it's worst. There ought to be a law against the Mcrib.

 

Oh Lee, Stop reading so many articles. Who cares if there is Glue in it? It tastes so good....although the meat I eat is usually on the Bone....

[instudiocity]

Oh Lee, Stop reading so many articles. Who cares if there is Glue in it? It tastes so good....although the meat I eat is usually on the Bone....

Glue? Hey, Glue! That could add TASTE and NUTRITIONAL VALUE to the SUGAR!

 

JJ does this mean you're a Sugar Daddy?

[bigvalboy]

I charge EVERYTHING almost...Double miles on my credit card and numerous bonuses from Northwest Air throughout the year. Still trying to get the masseur to take my credit card...no luck yet.

[jjkrkwood]

McDRIB, 3 lies for the price of one: 1. It ain't ribs!, 2. It ain't food, 3. It don't taste rite!

 

It tastes delicious. That special sauce and touch of raw onion. YUMZ. I just wish it were bigger (but i say that about everything)

[dane michaels]

I secretly love Mcd's and as Lee can vouch, myself and Ryaan Morgan did not eat anything outside lettuce, almonds, talapia, shrimp, and veggies before the Palm Springs event. When the smell of gilled meat hit both Ryaan's and my nose.. It was over and poor Lee had 2 starved crazed 'scorts about to lose it and claw through windows to get at some Fat/beef which = flavor.

[leigh.bess.toad]

I secretly love Mcd's and as Lee can vouch, myself and Ryaan Morgan did not eat anything outside lettuce, almonds, talapia, shrimp, and veggies before the Palm Springs event. When the smell of gilled meat hit both Ryaan's and my nose.. It was over and poor Lee had 2 starved crazed 'scorts about to lose it and claw through windows to get at some Fat/beef which = flavor.

 

And here I thought it was me that had you crazed. roflmfao. :)

[instudiocity]

And here I thought it was me that had you crazed. roflmfao. :)

 

They may have pounded you but they didn't broil you! ROFLMAO!

[JT Brooklyn]

I believe I have sunk to a personal low, though this is probably not an unusual situation for many people here in the US. Due to a peculiar set of circumstance, I found myself buying a Hamburger and Fries at a McDonald's drive through with a credit card at 2 AM. I don't really like fast food and I try not to use my credit card at all and if I do I try to pay it off at the end of the month but nevertheless there I was.

I am not sure what I found the most appalling about this. Was it that there are fast food places courting favor at 2AM and that I was the 4th car in line? Was it that I did not have enough cash to pay for the burger? Was it that I was gas sitting in my car waiting to be served?

Not exactly sure, but I am sure of this, the experience engenders some of the worst aspects of life in the US

Have I sunk to a new low or is there another circle of Dante has store up for me?

 

PK..I am sure having a Car/Credit Card and having to make a choice of what "Happy Meal" to have would be an "Aspect of Life" many Homeless would Love to Endure

[Toulouse]

PK, I've done the same thing as you described before and also felt ridiculous. In fact, I went through a McDonald's drive-thru recently to get a diet coke. After ordering and proceeding to he pay window, I realized I didn't had no cash or coins. I literally had to use my charge card for the $1.08 charge. I felt quite silly. At least now I know that I'm in good company, PK!

Happy Thanksgiving.

[+ purplekow]

PK..I am sure having a Car/Credit Card and having to make a choice of what "Happy Meal" to have would be an "Aspect of Life" many Homeless would Love to Endure

 

My loathesome feeling centered aroud the contrast of excess of poor quality products made readily available, as long as one is willing to waste other resources to get it, combined with an inability to pay for it.

 

BG I am sure there are homeless people who would love to have a car or a credit card or perhaps the computer from which arise these posts. I do not foresee a Utopia where everyone has a Happy Meal. That doesnt mean the absurdity of the excesses many of us take as given, shouldn't be commented upon, even as we go about our own lives.

I was not reporting a Tom Tom the baker's son pulling out a plum moment.

[dane michaels]

Mucho XOXOXOXOXOXOXO you Sir, are the life.

[gallahadesquire]

I'm always amazed at the people who CHARGE their meals in our cafeteria, where it's hard to make a meal cost more than $5 and impossible to need to pay more than $10. Why don't they just bring money?

It's the middle of the frelling day!

[leigh.bess.toad]

I'm always amazed at the people who CHARGE their meals in our cafeteria, where it's hard to make a meal cost more than $5 and impossible to need to pay more than $10. Why don't they just bring money?

 

Two words: airline miles. Or reward points.

[+ newatthis]

...Why don't they just bring money?...

Asked and answered. See above.

[Decatur Guy]

I pay for almost everything with a credit card. And I've never paid interest. I just pay it off in full every month.

 

As for being fourth in line at 2 a.m. at McDonald's, yes that's not a moment of glory, but if you don't do it every weekend ...

[raulgmanzo]

Using a card to pay is no big deal, some folks don't carry cash and even though the merchant OFTEN pays considerable fees it is not hard to see that ultimately paying for it electronically could cost less. Sending some bits over a networks could certainly be less costly than the gas and security to ship around physical money.

 

Lots and lots of people (including me) find themselves hungry in the middle of the night. But it is sad that there wasn't something other than McDonalds available to you.

 

It's not that much of their food is awful but rather that it is all so much the same from coast to coast. Spending money at McDonalds is in effect supporting mediocrity and discouraging the kinds of regional differences and variety that make travel and day to day living interesting. It is hard to imagine why people would go to a McDonalds when traveling. I usually can find some thing with some local flavor but admittedly it is getting to be difficult in much of the U.S.

 

Fortunately I live in a city where one is usually within walking distance of some 24 hour food OTHER than McDonalds or other chain restaurants. Plus even if I thought a McRib was healthy or tasty I prefer some real BBQ from a real place. With a real BBQ joint you get all that ambience of bullet proof plexiglass with which McDonalds just couldn't hope to compete.

 

But yeah then there is the aspect of sitting in a car wasting space and gas to get gassy. Drive thrus are generally a really very bad idea for society and the businesses that operate them rarely come close to paying the enormous externalties they impose especially on a city.

[bigvalboy]

Returned last year from a trip to Pattaya in Thailand, and there in all of its glory in the middle of this wonderful city full of exotic food was, you guessed it a 'Mc Donalds' and it was packed with tourists. Go figure! One of the guys I was traveling with, had breakfast there every morning...I just do not understand it and never will!!