HAPPY MEAL
As Aidan and I walked into McDonald’s Saturday for lunch it was kind of hard not to notice the banner hanging inside the restaurant.
“McDONALDS: Celebrating 30 years of The Happy Meal.”
Not that the advertising had anything to do with it, but as Aidan did every time we go to Mickey Ds, he ordered the 6-piece chicken nugget happy meal.
As I ate my lunch, I watched as Aidan put together the mini-nerf basketball toy that came inside the meal. He didn’t need to look at the instructions. Within 30 seconds he had constructed the contraption.
He placed the mini bball hoop in the center of the table and casually tossed the plastic basketball in the direction on the hoop: It bounced off the cardboard NERF backboard: SWISH.
After the little plastic ball went through the little plastic hoop the thing fell apart.
Aidan calmly picked up the pieces and tossed them into the bag, along with the rest of trash we had amassed through out our lunch.
“McDonald’s,” Aidan said casually. “Celebrating 30 years of garbage toys.”
An ad-wizard in the making indeed.
