I felt like a complete nutjob when I pulled up to the McDonald's drive-thru today and ordered 5 small vanilla milkshakes and a hot coffee.
Do people at McD's think about what people are ordering? Are they like, WTF, it's 20 degrees outside and some broad wants 5 small milkshakes? If I worked there I would make fun of people and their orders all the time. "You want 6 McRibs and a Diet Coke, no ice? What's wrong with you?"
Mom had given me money to load their freezer up with vanilla milkshakes, and she needed them sooner rather than later. This is a normal habit of hers, this frozen milkshake thing, but the urgency was that my dad now wanted to partake in the milkshake habit.
During his last two days in the hospital, he found out he didn't have to eat the Jell-O on his all-liquids breakfast tray. He could ask Pete the restorative specialist for vanilla ice cream. That really perked him up. He thought it would be the key to a successful recovery. So one night he told me he wanted to go home and just eat Mom's stash of vanilla milkshakes in the freezer.
My mom panicked and sent me out for more stock.
Because neither of my parents are driving for about 6 more weeks, I will be making more milkshake runs. Even though their friends and neighbors have offered to shop for them, I doubt Mom will ask them to pick up 5 small vanilla milkshakes from McD's (they can't be from BK) because if she did they would think she is crazy.
This cracked me up. Ah, the cute little habits of old people.
Now I want an eggnog shake, damnit.
Posted by: KtP | 10 December 2010 at 04:21 PM
What is this eggnog shake you speak of, ktp? Sounds amazing.....
Posted by: lg | 11 December 2010 at 04:30 PM
salty d. Wants yo know the same thing.
also apologies for the grammatical errors in this post, but, as if I care to fix them. As usual.
Posted by: blaugra | 11 December 2010 at 06:21 PM
McDonalds! They are advertising with lame-ass singing radio ads and between this post and the ads, I was craving. And I got one today. And it was surprisingly delish!
Posted by: KtP | 11 December 2010 at 07:04 PM
Well, I'll be damned! But I was hoping for alcohol. I was just drinking some egg nog playing Scrabble with my husband (we bailed on the Christmas Carol tickets we had for tonight -- we are SO LAME) and was considering putting it in the blender with some vanilla ice cream. Then I realized that would just be a Brandy Alexander, no?
Posted by: lg | 11 December 2010 at 10:00 PM
Who cares what it's called as long as it's delish!
Posted by: KtP | 12 December 2010 at 12:50 AM
Brandy Alexander's are what we would great my grandmother with at the airport - ah memories.
And now I want a hot fudge sundae with TWO of the little peanut packets from McD's. Mmmmmm
Posted by: Kristin | 14 December 2010 at 01:52 PM