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To: Leaning Right

As a Luddite I had never ventured inside McDonald’s to know it was assumed you had to do a kiosk order and you already knew all about it. My one time there was unsettling. I felt like Roddy McDowall as HG Wells in Time After Time (good movie).*
Kindly customer behind me told me I had to choose a seating area booth even if I wasn’t sure. Mandatory line froze up the screen unless I agreed.

Like most computer choices it assumed you already knew choosing the drink without the size meant you weren’t locked into that as a new menu would appear later for the sizes. Stuff like that.

Finally I didn’t properly confirm the order choices and thought I was done could pay later at the pickup counter. No dice. No order was silently being processed unless I confirmed the order on a bottom line I missed seeing. Had to complete the order and start the wait anew.

*HG Wells suddenly in current US bewildered and shaking his head at the newspaper sports headline Rams Maul Bucks.


56 posted on 03/31/2024 2:09:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

Malcolm McDowell. And it WAS a good movie. Usually, I hate time travel stuff, but that was excellent.

And I won’t do kiosks to order food. Horrid technology.


61 posted on 03/31/2024 2:23:57 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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