How I Got Burned By McDonalds. And What We All Should Learn From It

This would appear to be a normal, run-of-the-mill cup of coffee. If you are a coffee drinker who drinks McDonald's coffee, you'd probably drink from this cup.

And if you did, you'd get burned.





Because unbeknownst to you (but knownst to the person who passed the cup out the window to you), this cup is defective. Making matters worse, the top of this cup is positioned perfectly so that the cup's defect can have its maximum effectiveness. See the chunk out of the top (yes, it looks like someone took a bite of it, but that has such disgusting ramifications i don't even want to think about it)? Yes, all the coffee comes out there, not out of the opening in the top.

Which means, of course, that the hot coffee ends up on me... not in my mouth.

Lesson: Usually, when you get burned in life, it's by something you never saw coming.

So here's something to think about:

When life burns you because you didn't see something coming, don't spend your time kicking yourself for not seeing it. Don't beat yourself up over what you really didn't have an opportunity to stop.

BUT

Don't let it happen again. After my first attempt to drink coffee ended with a lapful of the liquid gold, I didn't try again until I had taken the top off to see what went wrong. Then I decided to not try that method anymore. Now I'm sipping my coffee without the defective cup and I'm really enjoying it, burn free.

Don't let the hiccups of life turn you into an indecisive willow. When life burns you, fix what went wrong and start living again.

Thanks, McDonalds.