HAPPIER MEALS

Today after Little T's first flag football game of the season, he requested a celebratory gourmet meal at....McDonald's.  No surprise...He's loves his chicken nuggets!!! 

So we get our food and sit down....first thing out of the Happy Meal is his toy.  A skateboard.  Not just a skateboard, a 'Clone Wars' skateboard with a picure of Obe Wan Kinobi on the bottom.  Okay...he's my favorite too.  We're both happy.  But I'm mainly happy because I don't have to put anything together.   I am not good at that...at all.  I usually have to hand an 'assembly required' toy to Big T.  "Help me please, and tell me what this is supposed to do."  (Which he does...thank goodness!!!  :-)

Also we were sitting close to a VERY busy Mom with adorable 3 year old little twin girls and a 5 year old son.  She's rapidly handing out Happy Meals and assembling their meals in front of them....(been there, done that)...So she hands the girls the toys out of their Happy Meals and one of them starts crying.  "I DON'T WANT THAT!!!"  and threw it down on the floor.    Mom picks it up and calmly explains that it's the only toy they have right now and places it back in front of her.  My thought was that maybe they had run out of 'girl' toys and had given her the wrong one, the unwanted 'boy' toy, but no.  As we were leaving, they were discussing the toy and Mom was saying..."They only have pink ones for girls."    She didn't like it because it was PINK.    LOL  

I'm pretty sure 99.9999% of girl meal toys from McDonald's PROBABLY have pink on them.   Trying to please everyone, ya know.   They underestimated this one.  I guess they aren't all 'cookie cutter kids'.  ;-)

My suggestion.....put a book in their Happy Meals.   If I was getting a Happy Meal....that would make me VERY happy. ....and it's educational...and requires their little brains to develop.  Rather than giving them little plastic, mindless toys that their Moms can't figure out and that are played with for 5 minutes on the way home and then clutter up my car. 

Thanks for listening, McDonald's....or not.   I know books probably won't sell alot of Happy Meals, but I had to throw the idea out there anyway.....It's what I do.    

G