Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Fast Food Restaurant Description
Scene in a Fast Food Restaurant. I push through the crowds of early days people hovering outside the automatic doors of Burger King, thrill the empty paper cups and bags out of my way. Stepping inside, the first thing that hits me is the sound. It crashes over me, engulfing me, bill of exchange me in. I step closer, into the midst of it. To my left sit a young couple, anxiously feeding their toddler chicken nuggets dipped in love apple sauce. The devil year old cries and whines, putting his hand up to his let loose as if to say no, no more. The group of young people to my even up are laughing, shouting and flirting.One of the boys has stolen a girls milkshake and she leans crossways her friends, giggling happily, to try and snatch it back. I can hear the radio vie faintly. The newest, noisiest dance track struggles to be heard in the room entire of people, resembling a school canteen. As I affect my way upstair I pass a smartly dressed businessman, holding a brown bag cont aining a burger, and his other hand to hold his drink. He has his mobile phone trapped between his ear and his shoulder and he jabbers away to his colleague about redundancies.An elderly woman, accompanied by two young, brightly dressed grandchildren, frowns at the man as she makes her way past, children in tow. The smell of the fatty, fatty burgers is overpowering now, and I can hardly fall out for the stench if freshly cooked French fries. They coat the floor, like a three-inch carpet, haywire underfoot. I wonder why these restaurants even bother installing bins nonentity seems inclined to use them. Spotting no empty tables, I make my way back downstairs to order my food. I overtake the line up if people waiting for veggie-burgers and order large fries and a cocoa milkshake.The young girl who serves me cant be much ripened than myself, yet she looks older, more tired, world-weary. Her shoulder length hair hangs limp and greasy under her baseball cap, and her red t-shirt is stained with fat and fizzy drinks. The woman next to me has dropped her tray, and someone with a mop rushes to clean up the split cola, before anyone has a chance to fall in it. I smell the air, take a French fry out of the packet, stick out it in my mouth and sigh. It tastes like grease, unhealthy and fattening. Looking around me, I decide to find a bench outside and, licking my lips in anticipation of my milkshake, I go in search of one.
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