[MG1]

I’m at the McDonald’s on Byrne Road. I ordered a fillet o fish with the survey coupon, which gets me a free medium fries and drink with a purchase of a large sandwich. Like last week, the girl at the till tells me it’s free. I was like, “Fuck yeah.” Anyway, I go to fill my drink cup when I remembered what my daughter said to me when I told my her about how I got a meal for free at the Port Kells location last week (same circumstance). She told me, “Someone could get into trouble over this and it’s not like you're a struggling student." She was right, of course. Anyway, she said this to me without being judgemental or in a condescending way. I was pretty proud of her - kind of reminded me of what my wife would have said. So, I went back to the till to tell the gal I should have paid for the sandwich. As it turns out, one of the managers was looking at the coupon.

I paid for the sandwich and put a five dollar bill in the charity box to fix last time’s incident. It was one of those, “WTF were you thinking?” moments. It’s not that I did the right thing, but more about my daughter looking after the old man.

In the end none this would have made a difference or moved mountains............ I feel much better about myself and that means a lot. My wife did a bang up job raising the kids.