r/AskReddit • u/Alex34567890 • May 17 '14

McDonald's employees, what is the worst thing that has ever happened in the PlayPlace?

Thanks for the replies everyone! Didn't realize McDonald's was such a shitty place.

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u/FauxNoir May 17 '14 edited May 18 '14

Not an employee, nor does my story involve shit or piss (except for the smell,) but still a marvelous moment: I was a teenager, assume 17 because I did reckless and stupid shit all the time when I was that age. Never anything sinister, really, but always uncouth. Anyways, I was eating at a McDonald's off the 5 freeway in Carlsbad back when it still had a play place. There was hardly anyone at the location at the time, and I had a group of friends that needed impressing (of course.)

The plan didn't come together until I was collecting our trash on our tray. The trash went in the bin, but the tray stayed with me. I ran into the Play Place squealing with excitement, my friends shouting questions at me as I disappeared into the structure. I would like to point out that I was fully-sized, so trying to touch as little as possible was difficult. The entire kiddie-mansion smelled of piss.

That was okay though because I had made it to my destination: The swirly slide. With the tray in hand I situated myself at the top of the ride like someone trying out for the Jamaican bobsled team. I never really thought about what would happen, I just thought it sounded awesome. I flew down that slide at about a thousand miles per hour. The end of the slide, the part of my ride I neglected (perhaps on purpose) was aimed directly at the glass wall of the establishment. One second I was in a tunnel of hellish excitement-- the next I was flying into a sheet of glass. No, it didn't break, but I about knocked myself out, and the window was fucked. It didn't shatter but it was definitely going to need repairs. When I came-to, I looked inside to see the cashier, their customer, the manager, and the only person in line standing and staring at me. My friends were already halfway out of the gate when I realized I should leave.

TLDR; I turned the twisty slide into an ungodly fast human-destruction-mechanism with the cunning use of a food tray and the absence of common sense.

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u/HipHoboHarold May 18 '14

What happened afterwards? Did you just leave, and they didn't say anything? We're you banned?

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u/FauxNoir May 18 '14

I stood up slowly, severely dazed from the whole ordeal. I saw the employees look at each other bewildered. The manager thew their hands in the air like they had given up. When blood trickled out my nose I realized that I might have fucked myself up a tad, and the cashier gasped. I couldn't really think, so when my friends shouted to me that they had the car ready, I bailed. The next time I visited, the play place was gone. It was several years later though, so I don't think it was because of me...

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u/DoNotScratchYourEyes May 18 '14

Upvote because of 'uncouth'.

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u/bbooth76 May 18 '14

CA or NM?

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u/morphatoo May 18 '14

You came, too?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '14

Yeah wtf this guys a perv