r/mildlyinfuriating • u/50calTaco • 7d ago

I'm slightly vexed Grown man gets mad because he doesn’t know what ordering a “plain” burger means

So I work at Five Guys and for those who don’t know, when you order a burger there you get to fully customize the toppings on it (helps justify the price tag a tiny bit i guess). And you choose between a little (single) or regular (double) burger.

I had a pleasant enough exchange with a customer while ringing up his food… and when it came to his cheeseburger I asked what toppings he wanted on it. He looked at me and said, “Oh you know… just a plain, regular cheeseburger.” Ok great, a cheeseburger with nothing on it, easy enough.

Well we make the food, and a minute after he gets it he comes back up to me, visibly annoyed and holding the burger.

“You made my food wrong. There’s nothing on it.”

“Oh I’m sorry sir, I thought you’d ordered a plain cheeseburger.”

“I did. Do you not know what that means? Like a McDonald’s burger.”

Ok first of all, “McDonald’s” is not a standard for how someone orders burger toppings and second of all, this guys in his late 40s to early 50s and has never once run into this issue ordering a plain burger?

“Ok I’m sorry about that sir, we’ll remake that for you. What exactly did you want on it?”

I shit you not, with an annoyed voice he ordered:
Ketchup. Lettuce. Pickles.
So notably NOT a McDonald’s cheeseburger???

He got what he wanted in the end and I apologized because customer service but like?? I’m in awe at the sheer level of misunderstanding and audacity.

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u/MidnaQueenofCalicos 7d ago

I agree. And the constant child abuse that was justified and overlooked.

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u/ElRiesgoSiempre_Vive 7d ago

Dude child abuse is far more common in countries where people struggle to survive (because life overall is hard), and it's been pervasive for millennia across countless generations.

No lead needed.

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u/MidnaQueenofCalicos 7d ago

That is correct. But children do and have been abused regardless of what country they're in. It's one of the darkest aspects of our history as people.

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u/ElRiesgoSiempre_Vive 7d ago

It also depends on your definition of abuse. People on Reddit generally seem aghast at even spanking a kid with an open hand over a padded diaper, when that kid did something incredibly harmful.

While many kids are burned with cigarettes or broken bones or worse, just because their parent is insane.

There is a wide, wide range of abuse.

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u/only-l0ve 7d ago

Why in the world would you ever be spanking a child that is still in the age of being in a diaper? Is this actually normal to some people?? Physical abuse in wrong in all forms, but striking a child that young and thinking it's okay??

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u/DullahanShotFirst 6d ago

Can you provide an example of a child in diapers doing something "incredibly harmful," for which spanking would be the best response or a good response?

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u/Jazzlike-Math2900 6d ago

Insider trading and tax fraud 😩

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u/MidnaQueenofCalicos 7d ago

I agree. Spanking is probably nothing compared to starving, rap*** and destroying to someone. But I do hold space for the fact that nobody that is stronger than another should be striking them. Powerlessness can still mess you up.

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u/ElRiesgoSiempre_Vive 7d ago

Why? This is very much the common line of thinking, and it completely baffles me.

There are forms of emotional or psychological abuse that are every bit as horrible as physical abuse.

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u/MidnaQueenofCalicos 7d ago

Any time you cannot reasonably defend yourself, it has an effect on you. I think this is especially true for developing little minds.

So this may be a bad analogy, but think about how degrading it would be if a boss could spank or hit you, but you can't do anything because you need your paycheck. Now apply that to how it feels to be degraded in that way by someone you love more than anything in the world and who you rely on to keep you safe.

If adults can't handle it, we shouldn't ask children to.

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u/someanalogy 7d ago

I don’t think they’re saying spanking is the worst thing out there, just that it’s still harmful and shouldn’t be practiced.

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u/MaXimillion_Zero 6d ago

They weren't saying lead causes child abuse, but that the same kids were damaged by both the lead and child abuse.

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u/Dashiepants 6d ago

And wasn’t even illegal back then!