AIBU? Neighbours demanding money for McDonald’s

[Radishey]

We live in quite a small but nice street, mainly detached with decent sized gardens. We have a whatsapp group that the whole street is on, barring one family LOL. But we won’t talk about them.

Anyway, DH is the one who reads the group most often and has now got into a massive fight with the neighbours over a group-buy of McDonalds food next week.

Well we’re detatched, no neighbors for effing miles but we rent...

@Taddda given you more than enough to start that book!!!? A trilogy right there! shock....I'd title start with 'McDonalds, 'The renters' and the rapey fish’

I’m on it!

Does anyone know, crucially, which 15 McDonalds are reopening? And is it one near me? (We have no garden to speak of and we are not on the WhatsApp group but naice area, have worked hard etc)

Nope @MajesticWhine, none near you. You don’t qualify. You may eventually get a Greggs. Tooo commonn

I live in a detached house (it is very small but we have a lovely big garden). Our McD isn’t open but I’m not bothered about that. Can I join your WhatsApp group OP. I need to find out who your street is bullying and why

@teensarghhhh the OP has already been banned, are you also garden bragging??? 😂

Banned? Now we will never know who didn’t pay for their McD or why the neighbours have been chucked off the WhatsApp group. Gutted!

Yes my garden is huge! - only because the fence between the garden and the woods behind us has come down and DH isn’t bothered. I’m going to order in a truck load of sheep (and maybe goats and some horses) to eat the mess so I can find where the fence is supposed to be. It will be a much smaller garden then - from memory 🐏🐑🐏🐃🐃🐃🦓🦓🦓

@TeensArghhhh from what I understand it was sadly a troll who was previously known. However the thread continues and one of the main discussions is Rapey Fish. Do you have a pond in your huge braggy stolen garden?

If macdonalds isn’t food, how did my supersize me diet as a student lead to me gaining 1.5st in my first term at uni?!

@owlbethere the obviously magicked their heavy adverts into you of course!!!

Seems an odd thing over which to have an argument; presumably a lot of people are exciting about having a McDonald's after a dry period and want to put in a bulk order. If you don't eat that sort of thing you only have to say so, surely?

Thank goodness I don't live in a street with a whatsapp group, I'd hate it. Can't bear all the local community spirit stuff that seems to be popping up all over the place at the moment - it's so fake and in the op's case, excludes some.

Having said that you can order me a Big Mac Meal please, haven't had anything like that for ages.

Pigeons. I had to read the thread to find out about Rapey Fish and discovered there are still Wimpy open! I could kill a Wimpy. I haven’t had a proper burger with real onions for about 30 years!

On the subject of ponds I have to say “I don’t know” 🤷🏻‍♀️ About 2 years ago I went to pick up some dog crap from “the huge —ridiculously overgrown— garden”. As I bent, dog poo bag in hand, to pick it up the bloody thing jumped at me - near giving me heart failure! I’m pleased to report it was a rather large frog, as opposed to flying dog crap. Either Freddy was hopelessly lost or his home lies deep under the spiky blackberry bushes. I haven’t been out there since. Too fucking scary!!

There is a duck pond in the village though. Do you think that would secure my place in the secret WhatsApp gang?

I would sell my soul for a Macca's right now

I wish I hadn't clicked this thread. Read it all, discovered that Wimpy still exists and got all excited. Then googled and found the nearest one to me is 22 miles away and am now sulking because I miss Wimpy and want one.
I also now want a McDonalds, but that's not the point.

As if no one has mentioned Wimpey’s knickerbocker glory. My dad was of the “McDonald’s isn’t food” brigade plus CJD when I was young so no burgers at all. However we did occasionally go to Wimpey in Henley for a knickerbocker glory and they were the best days of my youth!
I eventually quit vegetarianism and had my first McDonald’s in Portsmouth aged 21. My peers were flabbergasted I’d never had one.

@Mauvg try and convince yourself it won't be like it used to be!

I live in a terrace and am desperate for a Big Mac.

@Queenoftheashes I’m old enough to remember people having birthday parties at Wimpey!

Im hungover and now I really want a McDonalds 😬

I would happily give my neighbours money for a maccies breakfast right about now.

@Carolduckingbaskin I live in a bungalow and I'm in our street Whatsapp group. We send each other funny videos and photos of animals doing cute things. Nobody has mentioned a group takeaway order just yet though.

@Onlymewhereareyou by the time restrictions are lifted and I can go 22 miles for my Wimpy fix, I'll have forgotten, so same thing. I did bookmark the website, so will probably come across it in a couple of years time looking for something else, wonder why I bookmarked it and get annoyed at my memory for forgetting a vital thing

@tillyteatowel did they serve knickerbocker glories?

I can’t remember! I just remember that you got some kind of merch that said you’d been to a party there.

I am confused. (Maybe it's the effort of protecting the mamma fish and her babies.). but are you serious about McD's being closed in the UK? Here in California, not only is McD an essential business, but so are weed shops, liquor stores, gun shops and pet stores. Ironically computer shops and internet supplies are not considered essential. So I guess we're just supposed to get drunk and stoned, eat a bunch of Big Macs and then shoot the cable repair guy when he shows up because our internet isn't working, not because the provider isn't providing, but because we can't buy a 100 foot ethernet cable to run it directly into our cave where we're hiding out from our kids.