McDerive

My friend Nate and I carpooled every day to high school and would often swing through fast food drive-thrus on our way home for a treat. One day at our usual stop at the Minnetonka McDonald's, we decided to shake things up a bit. The conversation over the speaker system went something like this:

Nate: Hello. I'd like a McNugget McFlurry please.

Employee: One Chicken McNugget and One McFlurry... what would you like in that, sir?

Nate: I would like the McNuggets IN the McFlurry.

Employee: I'm sorry, sir, would you like the McNuggets or the McFlurry?

Nate: I would like a McNUGGET McFlurry, has no one ever asked for that before?

Employee: I don't think we can do that, sir.

Nate: The McDonald's in Maple Grove does it.

Employee: Wait a moment please *static* I can give you the McNuggets and a plain McFlurry if you would like.

Nate: I suppose that will do.

(We pull up to the window and see the woman taking our order face-to-face.)

Employee: So, you really put McNuggets in your McFlurry?

Nate: Yes, I'm just going to rip them up in little pieces and mix them in myself!

Employee: (covering her mouth and speaking into headset) Dude... he's not kidding... he actually wants it.

So after all the trouble we put this poor employee through, Nate and I decided that we actually had to try our creation. Needless to say, there's probably a reason why it isn't a permanent fixture on the menu.

Ordering fast food is so mindless, with entire combos reduced down to a number and for some the option to SuperSize an almost automatic response. Nate and I created a derive by asking for something unusual and specific and expecting customized service (also taking up a lot of time at the drive-thru window to the annoyance of the customers who came after us). I think the derive would have been even better had we gotten our friends to follow us in their cars asking for other varieties of unusual McFlurrys... perhaps I'll have to try staging this again!