DISCovery

As far as clever titles go I think I’ve truly out-done myself with this one…

Thursday morning I awake at 4.40am in preparation for my 5.30 start at maccas. I was going to write a post “How to do an ‘open’ shift at McDonalds” but thought better of it. So here’s the abridged version! :p

Turn on fry vats, affix the drink nozzles to the drink machines, start up the espresso machine, fill milk of espresso machine, make up berrynice yoghurts & bases for real fruit smoothies & garden salads, brew filter coffee, bring up hash browns from freezer and get them ready for cooking, retrieve breakfast stuffs like jam, hotcake syrup, knives/forks etc, fill ice, make a fresh cloth bucket, check there’s enough stock to last for a couple of hours, make a stock list, get changed, count a cash draw, put on a headset, and be ready to start taking orders at 6.00! Thirty minutes is not a lot of time to get that achieved. I can tell you!

I finish working at 2.00.

I go home and eat something.

I head to JB at Knox with Mum and we buy a really cool Pioneer MP3/CD tuner unit (with a sleek blue display) and two speakers for my car. Set a date for installation a week or two before December 25^th and there we have my main Christmas present.

I take it out of the box and look at it when I get home, skimming through the instructions and reading about the features and everything. I’m suitably impressed.

I pick up Paul at 8.30 – we’re going to Next. He tries to adjust his seat.

“I think I just found your CD player…”

He gets out and peers into the space below the passenger seat.

He discovers a 6 stacker Pioneer CD player.

I guffaw.

Had the car for three weeks and didn’t know.

Am now waiting until I find an in-car DVD player/GPS navigator/mini-fridge.

Pick up Kate and drive into the city listening to the new Jimmy Eat World on my sneaky CD player. Having a good night at Next with friends from my first highschool. Alan tackles Sean to the ground spilling a drink all over someone I didn’t know. But it is cool. There is a bit of jostling for the affections of a young girl. I’m entertained. Paul wears freaky contact lenses and tells everyone he has cancer. :)

Drive home with original people plus Kaitelyn. She explains the spelling but I forget. My car loses its drive-thru virginity whilst under my ownership – I’m back at a McDonalds again. The silly drive thru boy forgets to give us Sweet & Sour sauce. Drive past my old house and all of the schools I’ve ever been too. I become nostalgic but not so much so that I drift into the other lane and collide with another car. No, all my passengers remain unsquished. I deliver them home safely.

I excitedly write a note to Mum when I get home at about 3.00am for her to read in the morning.

I sleep.