I'm noting this place in passing as I experienced a real first…read more
Truth be told there's much better food and coffee all around it but an attraction is it sells beer. I couldn't countenance going here surrounded by good food. I'm not totally opposed to it it's a fall back.
A Big Mac meal here was about 8 euro according to the menu board.
I usually go to Mc Donald's overseas to use their toilets and WiFi although in Egypt I did have the food quite often as by Egyptian standards their food is haute cuisine. Yes Egypt is that grimly bad.
Anyway this Mc D was packed and buzzing, mostly with young people, and this was low season; there wasn't a seat to be had with people standing outside waiting to get in to order. I'd not want to be here high season. So I joined the queue for the restroom.
Thankfully, it wasn't a long queue but it wasn't a fast queue either then a staffer came in and opened a locked loo - it was obvious they had limited the number of available loos (dear knows why) and must have seen the queue growing and made an executive decision to open another.
When he opened the loo something happened I'd never experienced before, and it jarred me somewhat. The staffer stopped the next in line for the loo in the queue and pointed over to me, gesturing me to go in, for which I was grateful.
Wow, it also instantly dawned on me that I was at least twice as old as everyone else queuing and it was obvious- was I the cause of the opening of an otherwise locked loo?
I was being offered the courtesy that age used to bring from the young automatically but so rarely now - a seat on public transport, being allowed to go ahead as a priority as happened here, patience and tolerance.
I'd thought the era of good manners and kindness long dead and this gesture only served mostly to reinforce it - now when you get old you become invisible to the young. Thank you for this kindness Mc D Venice.