the sidlingers

Please do not advertise the fact that you will have Star Wars toys on May 16th if you do not fully intend to have them on that date. 

Also, if you know that you don’t have them on the date you promised, please put a note on the drive-thru or tell the unsuspecting customer who orders a kid’s meal that their child will not be getting the toy that they have been anxiously awaiting for the past three weeks.  The toy, that’s arrival has been marked on the calendar and is tied with the actual opening of the movie and flying on a plane later this week in terms of excitement levels.

I was really not prepared to get out of my car, as I had a perfect plan of all drive-thru errands to run today.   But no Burger King, you couldn’t let me do that.  I had to turn back into your parking lot and unload a very disappointed child and walk in to your restaurant in flip flops, gym pants and tank top complete with ponytail.

Perhaps it is all just a clever marketing ploy to get me to return again tomorrow for lunch, which unfortunately, I will.  So if that is the case, it worked.  Maybe you really did think the toys would be arriving today and there was some unavoidable delay or maybe the Cranium Cadoo people paid you off to have their toys put in kid’s meal for one more day, knowing that many people would be dining there today for the sole purpose of collecting Star Wars toys (which I would also like to know, how is one supposed to collect 36 different toys in six weeks?) so that more people would buy their games.

Who knows what happened.  All I know is that my kid is sad (as I’m sure some adults are too) and it’s your fault.

Signed,

The 37th unkempt lady who was dragged in by her son this afternoon

My son holding up his Cranium toy in disgust.