Posted on 12/21/2021 12:04:08 PM PST by LibertyWoman
A teenage Minnesota McDonald's employee is being hailed a hero after she leapt from a drive-thru window to save a woman choking on a chicken McNugget.
Sydney Raley, 15, from Edina, Minnesota, said she was working a 'mostly normal' shift at the Eden Prairie McDonalds Saturday when she popped her head out a window to inform a customer that the rest of her food would be ready shortly.
That's when she realized the unidentified woman was in trouble.
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Kudos to the dude but geez, that person had to mighty hungry to devour a chicken nugget while waiting for change in drive-thru....../s
“You’re supposed to CHEW those things, lady, not swallow them whole!”
Thumbs up, Sydney.
Awesome! Great job, young lady! McDonald’s should gift her a college scholarship as a reward.
I can only imagine how much he saved McDonalds in the lawsuit.
I’m sure the ungrateful woman will sue anyway.
Yes indeed, Sydney paid attention in health class. Good job young lady!
I saved my own bacon at the age of 14 doing the Heimlich on myself at a pizza joint. Embarrassing as heck, but I lived to tell the tale, so being able to breathe and being proud of myself took over for that a bit I guess.
on a side note, I noticed the pic with her parents at her home with the creche behind them...I have always placed my nativity scene plus a little village scene with the old timey card board houses UNDER my tree as my mother always did....so its a tradition...but this year it was so hard to get down on the floor and then get back up again, I may have to put it on a table....lol
God bless us everyone.
🥰 aww!
What a great job by the young lady hero.
I’ve only had one near Heimlich experience. Some buddies and I were at a food court eating lunch. A kid started choking. A couple of us ran over to help. His grandma was pounding his back. I was about ready to take over and Heimlich the kid when the obstruction came out.
I asked the kid if he had a sore throat and suggested his grandma take him to the mall candy store and get him a large sucker which would probably calm his sore throat.
Grandma asked if I was a doctor and I turned to her and said “No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
That was over 20 years ago. My friends still talk about how I can get away with saying anything.
Well done, Sydney! I’m curious, though, when McDonald’s started hiring 15-year-olds. I had to wait until I was 16 before they’d hire me in 1971. Something to do with labor laws concerning multi-state companies, as I recall.
LOL!
in MN they can work the drive through and at the counter. Need to be at least 16 or older (if I recall correctly) to work in the kitchen. Might be 18 now.
Thanks for the info. Back then, there was no drive-through, and nobody was hired to work only at the counter.
Long time ago. No Quarter Pounders, no breakfast items, fries made from actual raw potatoes.
I remember no seating inside either.
There was sort of a bench around the sides of the building.
Yes, there was just a counter, open in the summer but enclosed during winter. Benches on the sides of the building, and we had a few concrete tables at the side of the parking lot.
The first one in my town was a couple miles away, no problem riding my bike there. 15 cents for hamburgers, 10 for fries.
That was fun stuff.
A snap shot of real America.
“Tom (her dad) credited Raley’s autism for her ability to recall her Heimlich training from four years ago.”
I believe in the 80’s one had to be at least 16 to work there period, but I could be wrong about that.
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