Posted on 04/18/2014 7:49:24 PM PDT by South40
One thing that usually keeps frivolous suits down is that plaintiffs attorneys don’t usually take loser cases at the outset because 40% of nothing is still nothing.
As a lawyer I’m constantly telling people to “suck it up and move on, there’s no money in this”.
The really stupid lawyers take the case and hope for a settlement.
Then they lose on summary judgement.
I don’t care for the loser pays system. I’m too tired to get into that right now though.
The other day I went through the drive-thru at the McDonald’s at Kettleman and Highway 99 in Lodi, CA, where I was going to order a Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal. The voice on the intercom suggested their new Double Bacon Burger special meal instead, so I decided to try that but ordered it without pickles. I paid, got my order and before I got on the freeway I discovered that my container of fries was only ¼ full. . . and stale and cold! I drove back to the McDonald’s and got out and went in and told the girl behind the counter what I had found when I opened my bag. I showed the girl behind the counter the quarter full container. Obviously annoyed, she asked “Well, what do you want me to do? Fill it up?”
I said, “I want what I paid for, so yes.”
She sullenly did... overfilling it, and handed it to me. I left.
I got on Highway 99 headed toward Sacramento. When I bit into my burger, which had a paper taped to the wrapper indicating it was “special order: no pickle,” it was loaded with pickles! Only pickles. No ketchup, no mustard, no cheese, no bacon, just pickles. I tossed it down in disgust.
I had to throw the burger out! At least I had the fries. The fries were unsalted. And cold.
The only thing they got right was the Diet Coke. Oh, there were two napkins in the bag.
I was hungry, having worked through my normal lunch hour (it was after four and I had an appointment in Sacramento) and I had no time to wait in line at another drive-thru for another meal. I was pissed enough to call the McDonald’s to complain to the manager.
The manager apologized and said if I brought the burger back, he would “replace it!” I was, by this time, already 25 miles north of Lodi. He then told me that no one at “my restaurant would put a quarter full fry in a drive-thru bag.” I said mine was only a quarter full. He said after I had come back with my “almost full fry demanding it be filled up,” he had reviewed the security videos and he had a video proving that it was not only a quarter full. I asked if he was calling me a liar. He said “No sir, I am not calling you a liar, but I have a video showing the fry put in your bag was full.” He was quite rude. I responded that he was calling me a liar. He then said that he was willing to replace the food if I brought it back to his restaurant.
I told him to forget it. . . I had thrown the food out. . . but I would be complaining to corporate. He said go ahead.
Given that someone thinks the inclusion of only one napkin in his happy meal is worth $1.5 million, how much is MY screwed up meal and treatment at the hands of this McDonald’s staff and manager worth???
I have noticed over the years that every time I have gotten fries from McDonald’s at the drive-thru window, it is NEVER as full as when you get them inside and eat in the restaurant. I have come to the conclusion that it is a policy to short the fries of the drive-thru customers because they cannot come back and complain. How about it? They say that 10% of every worker in the US has at sometime worked at McDonald’s. Is that the policy? I think it is... because it would make them more money on every drive-thru order.
I recall that United Airlines found that they could save almost a million dollars a year by merely leaving ONE PEANUT out of each package of free peanuts they distributed to their passengers.
It was nice of them to provide him with a napkin. They are not required to give him something to wipe both ends, unless he produces from the other end on the premises.
That has already happened.
I get the small fries now and then. Bag usually full with a few fries overflow into bag.
Oh well.
It’s a wonder when orders are 100 right. Also I think some employees think we won’t get out of the car. Best thing at mcdonalds..........$1 any size soda.
any competent defense attorney will destroy this guy on the stand.
In a sane world you are correct. Unfortunately, we're talking California...
if you lose in civil court you pay the court costs ... keeps frivolous lawsuits down.
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They laughed at Dan Quayle when he proposed this.
Ka-ching!
Every greedy weasel in the US targets McDonald’s, confident the corporation will roll over and play dead.
Surprising there are always attorneys ready to represent these *ssclowns. Not.
A Million over a napkin?,Gee,can u imagine what that dunderhead would of sued for if an employee took a bite out of the burger before putting it in the bun? {that was funny when it happened a long long time ago},or when someone found a piece of a mouse in their to-go package.
I know it is not relevant to the lawsuit but I’m curious to know the man's political and religious affiliation.
LOL!
But... they have taken away the napkin dispensers.
No, it's not because you're black. It's because you are a f***** n****** s***** t****** J***** B*****.
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