To be a Kid
I walked into McDonalds, observed the people sitting in the booths, and proceeded to order my food. I normally like to order a McChicken, a side of fries, and a cup of Sprite. If I'm looking for a snack to tie me over till supper or something to eat out of boredom, I would order an Oreo McFlurry or a Mocha Frappe. I continued to look over the menu after the lady asked me what I would like to order. They had installed fancy new screens that displayed the menu in a much more captivating design and style. All the newness and remodeling done to my local McDonalds made me feel like I should try something new! I realized I didn't know what to order yet so I let the man in line behind me take my place at the counter. As I pondered what to order my eyes found the happy meal sitting so cheerily in one corner of the menu display. "No." That would look weird to see a grown-up (well I thought I was grown-up!) girl like me sitting in McDonalds playing with a cheap toy discovered from a happy meal. I finally decided on the Mocha Frappe. It was refreshing and delicious...definitely a good choice!
It doesn't stop there. Chicken nuggets were my favorite meal as a kid. Corndogs not so much, but they seem to haunt me every once in awhile too. There's something about kid food that in a way is so taunting! Maybe its the packaging. I wish all food was wrapped up in cute cartoon characters and cute puppies. It would be nice if on the label of a package of salad there would be displayed cute little rabbits and inside the mixture of salad was a surprise, just like those ones in a happy meal. Wait. That still would look weird to see a grown-up girl (kind of grown-up) playing with a "surprise toy".
My thought was that there were foods we ate, places we went, and things we did as a kid, when older you look back at those things as comforting. It's because when you're a kid life is so easy and simple with little or no responsibilities. Enjoying those things I did as a kid brings back feelings of my carefree childhood. I miss being a kid:)
It doesn't stop there. Chicken nuggets were my favorite meal as a kid. Corndogs not so much, but they seem to haunt me every once in awhile too. There's something about kid food that in a way is so taunting! Maybe its the packaging. I wish all food was wrapped up in cute cartoon characters and cute puppies. It would be nice if on the label of a package of salad there would be displayed cute little rabbits and inside the mixture of salad was a surprise, just like those ones in a happy meal. Wait. That still would look weird to see a grown-up girl (kind of grown-up) playing with a "surprise toy".
My thought was that there were foods we ate, places we went, and things we did as a kid, when older you look back at those things as comforting. It's because when you're a kid life is so easy and simple with little or no responsibilities. Enjoying those things I did as a kid brings back feelings of my carefree childhood. I miss being a kid:)
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