On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 10:54:06 AM UTC-10, Sal Paradise wrote:
> On 7/28/2015 2:47 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 10:22:39 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> >> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 12:43:50 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 9:29:34 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> >>>> "dsi1" <> wrote in message
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>>>> I only tried it once but didn't like the chicken. Odd that. I only
> >>>>>> tried
> >>>>>> Macdonalds once as well and I didn't like that either.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Somebody's eating that chicken on your island. Well, at least in the part
> >>>>> I was in - I never got to go to Scotland. Shocking as it may seem, the KFC
> >>>>> density was greater in London that in Honolulu. The times I spotted a KFC
> >>>>> was incomprehensible. I thought you guys only ate fishes and mammals.
> >>>>
> >>>> They are popular everywhere here, but I can't believe I am the only one who
> >>>> doesn't like it. If you come up to Scotland you will see just the same in
> >>>> towns and cities.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> The thing about McDonald's is that one does not go there to savor the
> >>>>> food. We go there because we're damn hungry, don't want to spend a lot of
> >>>>> dough, and we need food fast. We lack the time and energy to seek out
> >>>>> something even a little better. It fits our immediate requirements for
> >>>>> someplace reliable and predictable.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hey you don't need to give your excuses to me ... ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>>> Actually, I'm surprised you've never eaten at a McDonald's before - after
> >>>>> all, you live in Scotland. Hee hee.
> >>>>
> >>>> I 'have' eaten at a McDonalds (once) and I said so! A friend was passing
> >>>> through and I said I would make dinner, but he said he didn't have much time
> >>>> so why didn't we go to McDonalds! We did and I have recounted in the past
> >>>> what I found there)
> >>>>
> >>>> Once was enough!
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> What I meant was that I was surprised that you never went to McDonald's before that one time you did go. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Hee hee.
> >>>
> >>> My guess is that McDonald's is favored by parents with young kids and teenagers. It's a restaurant they can go to and not get dirty looks from the other people eating there. Interestingly, elderly people consider it to be a place to meet their friends in the morning. It's how the old folks network.
> >>
> >> The idea that elderly people go to McDonald's to meet their friends
> >> sounds very sad to me. Imagine having lived 75 years and not having
> >> gotten any further than hanging out at McDonald's.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bruce
> >
> > It is quite depressing but the old guys seem to be enjoying themselves. Come to think of it, old folks are quite depressing.
> >
>
> Oh come now, they're depressed, but they keep it within their own
> arthritic chat circles mostly...

I never said old folks were depressed. Mostly I find it depressing to see all the pain they're in and Bruce finds the idea of old folks in McDonalds to be a bummer. A lot of the oldsters seem cheerful beyond all reason.