Ok, so I go through the drive thru and ask for a McRib only sauce. I come out with a bun with sauce on it. Isn’t the meat implied??? I mean if I wanted a bun with sauce I would have ordered it that way. (I worked at McD’s for 5 yrs and I know how to place a grill order. WAKE UP are you that dense???
I think that’s funny, actually. Obviously you got either the world’s stupidest McEmployee, or one with a McAttitude problem. Either way, it makes me laugh.
Or perhaps a normally intelligent person is working a very repetitive job and make simple McMistake?
Honey, sometimes you’ve practically got to beg for it.
I’m sorry about your sandwichless-sandwich, but it’s extremely funny to see your topic with the next one below it in the forum view.
Do I need to ASK FOR MEAT???
Friggin Gluttons
I blame the vegetarians. 
If you said sauce only, technically they shouldn’t have given you bread either
Me McThinks you need to lay off the McCaffeine.
A few days ago I stopped at the drive-thru of a Whataburger in Houston. As I picked up up my meal, the latino bag handing-out person asked, “would you like some ketchup?”. “No,” sez I, “but I would like some pepper”. She looked at me a bit funny, then said, “That’ll be 24 cents.” I paid up, thinking that it seemed kinda mean to make the customers pay for a couple of those tiny packets of pepper, and she handed me the bag. Then it dawned on me. Sure enough, when I got home and looked in the bag, there was a jalapeno carefully wrapped in plastic.
I once went to the drive thru at Wendy’s and asked for a “junior bacon cheeseburger, plain.” Those were my exact words. What did I receive? A plain hamburger. Meat and a bun. I understand that this is a mistake that could be made easily enough during a long shift by an overtired employee, etc, etc…but let’s be reasonable. There are hamburgers on the menu. If I wanted a plain hamburger, wouldn’t I have said “Hamburger, plain” rather than ordering a specialty sandwich and requesting that the two specialty condiments–both of which appear in the name and were spoken by me, let’s not forget–be removed?
Thankfully, the mistake has never been repeated, even though I still order with the same words. Maybe there’s hope for humanity after all.
Juniper200, were you charged for a plain hamburger or for a junior bacon cheeseburger?
Also, [hijack]would you please provide a cite for that quote from Teller in your .sig? I love that thought! Teller’s a great writer.[/hijack]
Christina25, I hope at least you bellowed out a full-on Clara Peller imitation when you looked down at your empty buns!
If you were to ask me, a “McRib only sauce” is confusing. Just because you know how a line order works, doesn’t mean that cashiers expect that from the paying public. I imagine that the cashier was translating from the “common public to line order” dictionary, not the “line order to line order” dictionary.
heh. I remember once going through a drive-through and ordering a double cheeseburger, cheese only. They asked, “You want the meat too, right?”
Well, yeah, I just didn’t want the other stuff, glad you asked if you were confused. What puzzled me, though, was something that should have occurred to them: if all I wanted was cheese on a bun, why would I have ordered a “double”?
They charged me for the junior bacon cheeseburger, of course! Needless to say, they got a call from me as soon as I got home.
[hijack]Fiver: The Teller quote comes from http://www.deceptionsunlimited.com/v2i2p2.html And you are so right about Teller being a great writer. Have you read When I’m Dead, All This Will Be Yours? I wish we heard from him more often. Jesus Christ, did I just pun?[/hijack]
I double-check unusual orders at the DQ, which can sound kind of weird at the time, but it’s under the understanding that stranger things have happened (“OK sir, right away, just wanted to make sure, some people do order just the cone.”)
Oh. My. God.
I’m dying, Vis. Dying. I just got a head-in-the-door-asking-“Are you all right?”, that’s how much I’m dying…
jayjay
I’d just like to point out that in my two years of working at McDonald’s, it was not terribly uncommon for people to order either 1) A Big Mac, no meat, or 2) a cheeseburger, no burger. I am not kidding. In the first case, they wanted a “veggie Big Mac” (god only knows why), and in the second case, they basically wanted a grilled cheese sandwich.
I can totally see some bored drive-thru employee standing there at the end of a long shift, hearing “McRib, sauce only”, and thinking, “Huh, another weirdo who wants the bun with no meat. OK, whatever.”
However, the employee probably should have confirmed first. 
I am with everyone else who finds this somewhat hilarious, though.
Just to fill you in we vegetarians are somewhat limited on our fast food choices. Burger king actually offers a “veggie whopper” whereas mcdonalds does not. You have to custom order it and get charged as if there were meat on it. Basically I order this way if Im hungry and there’s nothing else around.