{"id":109,"date":"2009-04-28T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/?p=109"},"modified":"2019-05-19T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T19:32:50","slug":"uncharacteristic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/2009\/04\/28\/uncharacteristic\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncharacteristic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did something out of character during lunch today; I bought a McDonalds Double Cheeseburger for a stranger. In most cases, I am strongly against any type of handouts, so I’m still trying to figure out why this transpired. I had gone for a run during lunch, so perhaps elevated endorphins<\/a> are to blame. Nevertheless, as I approached the McDonalds a man sitting on a milk crate holding a cup, presumably asking for change, instead asked me for a Double Cheeseburger. My modus operandi when asked for a handout consists of acknowledging the person and telling them no, or not today, or sorry. Again, in this case I deviated as I simply ignored him. As I opened the door, he told me to have a nice day.<\/p>\n

Maybe I felt guilty for ignoring the guy or maybe it was the fact that I was planning on paying for my food with a Visa Gift Card that had $6.18 left on it, but I turned around, went back outside and verified the guy wanted a Double Cheeseburger. When it was time to order, I couldn’t find a Double Cheeseburger on the menu, only the McDouble on the $1 menu (2 beef patties and 1 slice of cheese), so I asked if they had a Double Cheeseburger and how much it was. They had it, $1.29; I bought one. As I headed towards the exit I saw someone else giving the guy a $1. Guess this guy had some extra mojo going for him today. For a brief moment I thought to myself, “this guy can buy a McDouble now, maybe I should give this Double Cheeseburger to someone else”, but ended up giving it to the guy anyway. He thanked me and again told me to have a nice day, this time with “more feeling”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did something out of character during lunch today; I bought a McDonalds Double Cheeseburger for a stranger. In most cases, I am strongly against any type of handouts, so I’m still trying to figure out why this transpired. I had gone for a run during lunch, so perhaps elevated endorphins are to blame. Nevertheless, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madpickles.org\/rokjoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}