Hi everyone, I would appreciate your thoughts on this small matter.
I was with my boyfriend at macs. When he came back to the table with the food, I troubled him to get a curry sauce, and he replied saying the staffs are busy. But still, he went over to the counter.
After close to 10 mins, he wasn’t back so I walked over and saw him waiting with other customers infront of the counter. He then went to the self-order machine, and wanted to order nuggets. I saw and I went forward and asked him why, and he said he wanted to buy to get the curry sauce.
Upon hearing that, I could feel myself boiling so I told him to go back first. There was a staff preparing orders at the counter so I went forward to ask and the staff passed me the curry sauce.
After I went back, we ate and admitted that we were unhappy about this. He felt that the staffs were busy and I still asked him to get the sauce. For me, I felt unhappy because I couldn’t understand why he wanted to buy extra nuggets to join the queue to get the curry sauce. Why couldn’t he just ask the staff at the counter? I know he didn’t want to trouble the staffs as they were busy, but I just felt angry at that moment.
I told him I’ll post here to get some thoughts, so feel free to comment and let me know what do you think of this small matter over a curry sauce, thanks.
Replies and Comments from netizens
- Sounds like he has some kind of social anxiety about making requests from strangers. How is he in other dining situations? Like requesting for more more tartar sauce or something at a restaurant like Swensens. Is it just a McDonald’s thing? Is it every time, or just this once?
- Or is it that the bf was raised by classy parents, and thought that barging up to the counter to get more sauce for free was inappropriate?
- Doesn’t like to trouble others is one thing, he might also consider himself “jumping queue” and doesn’t want confronting stares and anger from other customers.
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