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I'm sorry....but each time I read the story I'm about the tell you, I just have to keep repeating my title.
McDonalds has had many slogans as the years have gone by.
Here are just a few that ran in the U.S.~
1967 McDonald's is your kind of place
1980s There's nothing quite like a McDonald's
1981 Nobody makes your day like McDonald's can
2000 We love to see/make you smile
2002 Make every time a good time
2007 Things that make you go 'mmmm'
Well, you get the point...but perhaps the 2007 slogan, changed back to "Things that make you go hmmm," would be more appropriate when you consider what happened to Ethan Wade, in Greenville County, South Carolina at a local McDonalds.
Ethan went through the drive-thru and had a problem with his order, so he decided to go inside to get it straightened out.
Ethan happens to be a little person.
Here's what happened ~
Wade said, "Young lady had her back turned to the counter and when she turned around and spotted me she threw her hands up in the air, started yelling 'Oh, my gosh! Oh my gosh!' and ran to the back of the restaurant, continuing to yell as she was in back of the restaurant."
Wade said that the employee's response caught the attention of other customers, as well as her co-workers. He said, "The person that was coming to help me actually responded, 'I thought you had a gun. I thought you were robbing the place.'
"Wade said that the shift manager and store manager apologized after the incident. He said the employee who screamed told a supervisor that she had a phobia of little people. And employee in the franchise office told Wade about what the woman had said.
Wade said, "The employee had stated to her, 'Imagine if you saw a snake or a spider, how would you respond?' And that employee said she understood that. And I said, 'That's unbelievable. I am a human being.' "
"How could you compare the fear of a snake and spider to a human being? That makes no sense to me," Wade said. "I've seen kids kind of react like that. Understandable. But grown adults to act like that? That's just not acceptable."
Like I said....Things that make you go hmmm......
Read the article from NBC WYFF Channel 4
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