[FROGGYLEGS]

In high school I worked at a couple of fast food restaurants part-time. I worked the drive-thru at McDonalds, when I quit I went and worked the drive-thru at Taco Bell. Once, out of habit, I answered the drive-thru bell by saying "Welcome to McDonald's. Can I take your order please?" I didn't realize what I had said until the people in the car starting ordering Big Macs and laughed.

[Metron]

Originally Posted by FROGGYLEGS

In high school I worked at a couple of fast food restaurants part-time. I worked the drive-thru at McDonalds, when I quit I went and worked the drive-thru at Taco Bell. Once, out of habit, I answered the drive-thru bell by saying "Welcome to McDonald's. Can I take your order please?" I didn't realize what I had said until the people in the car starting ordering Big Macs and laughed.

Another Mc'D's story - My husband used to work in a little Mc Donald's in the back of a wal-mart. The most hated times in his life were when the toy in the happy meal was a beanie baby. people would call all day long to find out which one they had that day. It got to where they would answer the phone and say Thank you for calling MacMArt, we have the bear (or whatever). At that point the person calling would hang up. One particular day, the one they were selling was the lobster. My hubby's boss answered the phone and said "Thank you for calling MacMart, we have crabs."




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[Rapheal]

My McDonalds story. I was waiting in the drive thru a very long time. Had my neices in the car with me. I was trying to be in a pleasant mood and when we pulled up to get our food I said " A little short handed today?" The man at the window just looked at me without responding. He starts to hand me our food. He has a deformity where both his arms basically in stubs. I was mortified.

Dead silence in the car as we pull out. My neice says "Good going Auntie". The other neices break out in laughter. I will never forget it.

[FROGGYLEGS]

Originally Posted by Rapheal

My McDonalds story. I was waiting in the drive thru a very long time. Had my neices in the car with me. I was trying to be in a pleasant mood and when we pulled up to get our food I said " A little short handed today?" The man at the window just looked at me without responding. He starts to hand me our food. He has a deformity where both his arms basically in stubs. I was mortified.

Dead silence in the car as we pull out. My neice says "Good going Auntie". The other neices break out in laughter. I will never forget it.

oooh....yikes.

[FROGGYLEGS]

Okay I've got one more.

I sort of have a habit of calling people I don't know personally by their first and last names if I mention them in conversation. The few people that I meet that consistently act like jerks are always referred to by first and last name. I suppose that is because I don't get on a personal level with them.

One of my nursing school instructors fell into that category. By the time we graduated some students were calling her by her first name, but I never did. She led the next class through clinicals at my first job. While she was sitting nearby someone asked me why I always said both names and I told them why I thought I did.

It didn't occur to me until afterward that my instructor knew I referred to her by both names. I could have died because I basically told her that I never liked her.

[Star Trek Nerd]

-I used to work at Taco Bell after high school, and one day a gentleman in a wheelchair was trying to use the walk-up window (only used after dark). He couldn't get to it to the window because the curb was too high and the sloped sidewalk was blocked by our delivery truck. Without thinking (and also without realizing the window was wide open so the whole world could hear) I eventually asked my co-workers, "He looks young and strong. Why doesn't he just get up and walk?" Unfortunately, I realized after that he had no legs. Oops.

-Just last week I was helping a lady with her hotel reservation, and she mentioned she worked for Disney Studios. Like many others who have worked for Disney, I can't stand the Mouse House so I asked her if she was as happy as I was that Michael Eisner got the big boot from the Disney stockholders. She stared at me in disbelief and then stalked off. Turns out she is one of Eisner's personal assistants. Insert foot in mouth.

[HyperRNRachel]

During my first clinical I had to feed a blind man. Nervously I lifted the cover off his trayand told him..." HMMMM it LOOKS good" I felt really stupid, especially when he said, " I wish I knew it looked good." He was laughing about it, but I felt really really bad.

[Farkinott]

There once was a nurse (could it have been me?!) who asked a blind man with a chest infection what colour his sputum was!

[RNtoJD]

LOLOLOL!!!That is great. Look at the bright side... he also couldn't see what size foot you had just put in your mouth!!...

I once worked for an oral surgeon who is a great guy, but unfortunately didn't have much in the way of social skills, but had a sometimes pompous way of telling everyone who worked for him that they should always conduct themselves in a professional manner in front of the patients. We had seated a paraplegic in the examining room for a consult. When "Dr. Etiquette" strolled into the room (right past the wheelchair that was outside the room--evidently oblivious to it), he extended his hand for a handshake and as the patient leaned toward him to shake hands he said,"Don't get up."... The patient just saidm "Don't worry."
We had a lot of fun with that one....

[2ndgenerationnurse]

i embarass my kids quite often... in fact they have a little book of inside family jokes, most of them are quotes of stupid things mom has said...

here is just one such event.... remember when taco bell was giving those little dogs with purchase, the ones who talk... well i was ordering in the drive thru and asked ofr one of those dogs... the guy said, " which one would you like?" i said, "I think I love you!" my kids were rolling and i still had to pick up my order!