‘Hi Jane. Why the big grin?’
‘Well, I went to McDonald’s just now with my grandson and on the menu I could see 6, 9 or 12 chicken nuggets. So I asked for a half-dozen, right? The teenager behind the counter didn’t even blink as she said; ‘We don’t do a half-dozen nuggets.’
‘Don’t you?’ I said as I pointed at the notice behind her head, which was the size of a house.
‘No, we only have six, nine or twelve,’ came the robotic reply.
‘So I can’t order a half-dozen nuggets, but I can order six?’ I snorted.
‘Yes,’ came the same robotic response. So that’s what we had, but I’ still chuckling about it.
‘Wow, that is so sad.’
‘I know. But what’s even sadder is the girl that served us goes to Newport University with my daughter. She’s studying Business management, would you believe?’
‘Oh dear, I wonder if she’s related to the girl in Costa. I asked for a sweetener for my coffee and she said they didn’t do sweeteners. They only had Splenda and sugar.’
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Published by Brendan Gerad O'Brien
Born in Tralee, Co Kerry, I now lives in Wales.
As a child I spent his summer holidays in Listowel, Co Kerry where my uncle Moss Scanlon had a Harness Maker’s shop which was a magnet for all sorts of colourful characters. It was there that my love of words was kindled by the stories of John B. Keane and Bryan MacMahon, who often wandered in for a chat and bit of jovial banter.
I started writing short stories based on those characters and had twenty published in various anthologies and eMags over the years. I’ve now self-published them in a collection called Dreamin’ Dreams which is available through Smashwords.com and Amazon.com, and also as stand-alone items through the same medium.
My first novel, a thriller set in Wales during WW2 called
Dark September is published by Tirgearr Publishing.
Gallows Field is my second thriller and set in Ireland during WW2, and is self-published with Amazon and Smashwords.com
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