With a café latte in one hand and my MP3 player in the other, I found a vacant two seater table and sat down. It was an open air MacDonald's and the day was pleasant. The young lady next to me glared, even though I was some three feet away from her; smiling back she turned her head away from my obvious happy disposition, ‘your sh*t’ I thought and ignored her. Plugging into my music another couple sat down the other side of me, they had rather a large order and I presumed two others were coming to join them. I was wrong. I watched out of the corner of my eye as the incredibly thin young gentleman devoured a chicken burger plus regular fries, followed by a Big Mac and then a Quarter Pounder with cheese, all washed down with a large Coke. He demolished all bar the quarter pounder in less time than in took me to drink half the coffee and it wasn’t until he reached half way through the final burger that he actually put the food down and sat back. I clenched my fist and looked at it, a very good rough guide to the size of our stomach (before we stretch it through over eating) and wondered not only what size his flaccid stomach had stretched to, but how well he had over-ridden his ‘full’ indicator by rushing through as he did.
I became aware of the young woman the other side of me, she was eating a portion of chips. Her foot tapping, and her friend ducking with verbal abuse coming his way, she pushed them away, sat back and finished the Coke.
“Don’t you want those?” he inquired.
“No! full,” and with that her foot tapped more rapidly and her tirade of swear words intersected with the occasional conjunction continued to pour out in his general direction.
She shoot me another look, but I wasn’t focused on her and continued listening to the music in my head. Comes to something when the lyrics of someone like Prodigy are paled into insignificance by someone sitting in Macdonald's.
The track, ‘Take me to the hospital’ began and I smiled, how apt it was. With one over-consuming and the other over-fuming they were both candidates for an ulcer sometime very soon.
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