"Gimme a...!!"

I was asked many moons ago for kid stories at McD's. So far, the number of parents who think it's cute to let their 3-year old order are far and few between. We do get those special ones though. I have had parents try and let their kids order in the drive-through...from the back seat. First of all, it's really hard to hear someone in the backseat (note to all drive-throughers, have ONE person order the food, not everyone separate), and a small child makes it that much harder. They are incredibly indecisive. I have tons of people though, about three today, who will ask their children what they want and then we have to wait while the child cycles through about three different food/drink items before going back to the first. I've also had many a child scream until they get what they want, which is rather unpleasant for us and our ears, as well as the parent, I'm sure. Also, letting a young child try and count out your change is NOT cute when we have a full drive-through. The McDonald's drive-through is not the time for a math lesson.

Anyways, as for the title of my post, it refers to the girls in the cheerleading camp that are currently at the university. We had a bunch come in today, ponytails, ribbons, short shorts, glitter, and all. They were fine, but around 12:30 when both lanes and front counter were busy, I left my post in front drive-through and was running to get a shake when one of the cheerleading girls caught my eye. I figured she just wanted napkins or sauce or something so I stopped and asked her if she needed anything and she said, "Um yeah, there's like a big bug thing over there and one of the other girls said it was like a roach or something like that. So, um, could you, like, kill it? We need someone to come out and kill it." I just stared. ARE YOU SERIOUS? You are interupting me to tell me there's a BUG? Obnoxious! One of my managers overheard and trying REALLY hard not to laugh, she went and got a napkin to save the girls from the bug. She came back and said not only was it alllllll the way on the OTHER side of the store, but it wasn't even a roach. Nice. It's girls like that that give cheerleaders' their bad name. I just laughed. Guess they didn't want bug guts on their cheer shoes.

At my highschool, we never really had "cheerleader" cheerleaders. I went to a ghetto school, and there were no perky, ponytailed, glittery, bouncy cheerleaders. No saltine cracker dances or music for us. The most exciting thing they ever did was a pyramid, --two people on the bottom, one on top, so it wasn't even that impressive, but to us, it might as well been 5 layers high. We were VERY impressed, astounded was more like it. That didn't happen until my senior year, so I guess they spent the other four priming for that one shining moment. So my impression of cheerleaders was not the norm. But when I came to college and saw that there really WERE cheerleaders that fit the stereotype, it was quite eye-opening. One thing among many. Culture shock.