Walk this way!

We had waited patiently for the day to arrive and alas...McDonald's now sells happy meals for Adults. Well they call them activity meals....but they still have a prize.

Upon arrival to the local McDonald's, Water Pig and I mosey on up to the counter and proceed to place our orders. Now McDonald's offers one of three types of salads, a bottled water, and a pedometer in their "Activity Meal". The person that waited on me obviously called in sick on the day that Activity meals were being discussed.

Clerk - Which type of salad would you like?
Me - anyone without meat.
Clerk - They all have meat.
Clerk next to her - Ma'am we can make anyone without meat.
Me - Caesar without meat and whatever reduced calorie dressing you have.
Clerk - You don't want Caesar dressing?
Me - Is it low-fat?
Clerk - No, only the balsamic vinaigrette is low-fat.
Me - That's what I want.
Clerk - What would you like to drink?
Me - It says it comes with bottled water.
Clerk next to my clerk - Don't charge her extra for the (mumbled either water or meat)

The clerk proceeds to put the salad on a tray (I had said for here). The clerk next to her said, it goes in a happy meal box.
So she takes my salad away while she goes and folds a box.
The lady behind me is starting to tap her feet at this point.
Water Pig, who also ordered the same thing (only with meat) didn't get a box for her salad.
Then I hear a reminder to my clerk, "don't forget the prize".

Alas, we take our orders and sit to eat.

Now, the prize is this wonderful pedometer. Water pig immediately claims that her clerk pulled her prize from the wrong box ... the instructions are all in Spanish!! I quietly nudged her and told her to turn over the pamphlet.

We were impressed that the battery was included. This was really a nice prize for just ordering a salad. We'll be skinny before you know it! After 5 minutes we realized that we still couldn't operate the pedometer to reset it as the Spanish instructions had advised. Water pig then discovers a tiny arrow and BINGO...we could reset the pedometer to zero. We were ready to start walking!!!
All we had left was to strap it to our belt and go.

Now why Water Pig decided to read the instructions for that, I will never know. But she did. And believe it or not the instructions had very implicit instructions on operating. You must have the pedometer positioned strategically in the center of your leg. To far to the left or right ...well I don't know what will happen.

The next item on the instructions stated that if your stomach was to large, it might not work! What in the world do they mean by that? What is to large?? I'm thinking that people with flat little stomachs are NOT going for the salad and water...they've always had flat little stomachs and are going for the Big Mac and fries!!

Anyway, we proceeded to walk back to the car and test our new toys. We each took the same number of steps (although Water Pig did take a wrong door and found herself on the playground). Once in the car, we eagerly opened the pedometer to check our number of steps. Seems Water Pig took 147 steps and I took 7. I'm thinking my stomach must be to big.

I am hoping that McDonald's next trial will be a play area for adults!! But there will probably be a weight limit :(