Yesterday I told off Ronald McDonald at Earth Day fair [View All]

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I didn't mean to. It was the weirdest thing.

Took the kids over to a park here in Santa Monica where there's a big Earth Day fair. Booths and tents and music and food, all of it earth-day oriented.

Then I see Ronald McDonald walking through the crowd, with some sort of flunkie assistant person. He's drawing a crowd. I think nothing of it.

Next thing I know, I'm checking out a booth of kid's books, and he's right next to me, with people around him, and he addresses me directly. I was pushing my bike because I'd ridden over there and he says something like "see you're getting some nice exercise there. That's good!"

I was really wishing he hadn't talked to me, was wondering how to respond, when I realized "wait a minute. Ronald McDonald at an Earth Day fair? What the FUCK? And who is Ronald McDonald to talk about EXERCISE?"

So I just look at him and say, kind of baffled, "what are you doing here?" And he says something, I can't remember exactly what and I really start realizing it's Ronald Fucking McDonald at an EARTH DAY celebration and that just PISSES ME OFF.

So I said "how much are they paying you to be here?" and he and the flunkie say "nothing. Just all the french fries we can eat". I say " yeah right" and he says something else that's pretty inane and I just responded with "This is Earth Day. You guys don't belong here. You should be out cutting down some more rain forest so you can raise more Brazilian beef cattle for your crappy gut-bombs" or something to that affect.

Anyway, they got quiet and their smiles were gone and they sort of slunk away. I last saw them walking through the parking lot. I never saw them again.

Anyway I thought it was just weird, but kind of funny. I told off Ronald McDonald. Bizarro-world. Thought I'd share the story.