Don't try buying a cheeseburger at 10:27am....it just cant happen

I pledge allegiance to the 10:30am Breakfast Rule

BREAKING: Prizes are falling off the board.

Logging into the McDonalds Monopoly website today, I learned that someone has already walked away with a Jeep and a Jet Ski.

Therefore only 19 Jeeps and 4 Jet Skis remain.

I would like to meet the people who apparently won, as they are either the arsiest people around or they are operating on a whole other level to me.

Time to get busy then, so today I put away three large cheeseburgers meals, from three separate McDonalds.

I know.

Anyway, that secured me 12 tickets, which are –

Lunch: Bond St, Small Fries/Fruit Bag, Bond St,

Dinner: Small Coffee, Kings Cross Station, Small Fries/Fruit Bag, Northumberland Avenue

Dinner II: Bow St, Strand, Bow St, Vine St

So in three meals, I got only two stickers I could use. All the rest were instant wins and duplicates.

But, despite today being a complete waste of time on that front, there were some funny stories to come out of the day.

I had to go to a press conference today and on the drive back I was passing a McDonalds on my list to visit. I hadn’t checked this one off yet, so I thought why not get it out of the way.

It was early in the morning but I thought, why not!

So I walked into the McDonalds and asked for a cheeseburger meal, only to be told I couldn’t order one because they were still serving breakfast.

So, I looked at my phone, only to see it reading 10:27am.

Now, for the uninitiated, McDonalds serve breakfast until 10:30am, before lunch items become available.

I informed the young girl at the register that it was 10:27am, thinking she hadn’t realised how close we were to the changeover, but no, she did know what time it was and reminded me that I was a few minutes early.

So, I walked out to my car.

By the time I started it up, clicked in my seatbelt and put the car in gear, it was 10:30am.

So I drove through the drive-thru and ordered my meal.

I was driving out with meal in hand, less than two minutes later.

Therefore when I was in at the counter, two minutes earlier, the food that I ended up receiving was being made or had already been made.

It didn’t make a great deal of sense, but it made for a funny story nonetheless.

Secondly, as I mentioned today I had three meals, yet I noticed I was charged differently for each one.

My morning meal cost me $5.65, but I paid $5.85 and then $5.75 at two different McDonalds in the evening.

How can the price differ between McDonalds, particularly when they were all in about 10 minute drives of each other?

I know it’s only 10c, but still.

It’s only these bits of information you find out when eating 15 large cheeseburger meals a week.

Stay tuned for more earth shattering facts.

#FatMonopoly