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Default I went to McDonalds

On 2/26/2017 9:54 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-02-26 9:29 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 2/26/2017 9:10 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

>
>> Many years ago when I was taking some classes to renew my ins. license
>> I'd stop at McD's for coffee and a McMuffin before heading to class. On
>> several occasions I saw the same four people come in and buy coffee
>> (free refills!) but they were brown-bagging it - they brought their own
>> food! You could have knocked me over with a feather. I am absolutely
>> amazed they weren't told to take their coffee and leave.

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>
> That is a surprise. My wife got kicked out of McDs for bringing in
> coffee. We were car pooling for a while and I started work earlier than
> she did, so she would drop me off and go for breakfast. She hated their
> coffee, so she would stop at Hortons to get coffee and them go to McDs
> for eggs. They told her several times not to but she kept doing it until
> the ended up kicking her out.
>
>

Well hey, they're in business to sell things. I'm sorry your wife got
kicked out but at least she was warned first. I saw these same people
doing this for about two weeks and, at least when I was there, not one
employee said a word to them. It struck me as very odd.

Jill