Several weeks ago, I dropped Polly off for physical therapy and then drove across the street to get something to eat at McDonald’s.
I used McDonald’s mobile app. I ordered a plain — no tartar sauce, no cheese — fish sandwich, a hamburger, and a medium soft drink.
I pulled up to the drive-thru speaker and told them I had a mobile order. After a few minutes in line, I pulled up to the window to get my order. As I was given my order, I opened the food box to make sure my fish sandwich was plain. I have to do this because half the time, they ignore my “plain” request — which is clearly stated on the receipt — and give me a sandwich with tartar sauce and cheese. Want to piss me off? Mess up my food order after I explicitly told you what I wanted.
After checking my sandwich, I put it back in the bag and drove several hundred yards back to the physical therapy building to eat my food. As I opened my bag and pulled out my fish sandwich, I was shocked to see that all that was in the box was a bun. That’s right. The fish filet had magically disappeared.
I said to myself, “What the fuck! Where did the fish go?” I searched under my seat, beside my seat, and repeated the search with the passenger seat. I checked the back seat, and checked outside the car too. No fish to be found.
So, did my fish miraculously disappear as Jesus did after his death? I doubt it. I suspect the fish fell off the bun while I was transferring it from the restaurant window to the car. I can’t think of another rational explanation for the mystery of the missing fish.
How about you? Do you have a “miracle” story such as this one? One you can’t quite explain, but are certain that it was not supernatural?
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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I don’t know Bruce, but that is a bit freaky. Right now your fish could be somewhere getting ripped apart to feed thousands of people. I guess god needed that fish.
No Bruce. It’s your own doing. You communicated you wanted a fish sandwich with NOTHING ON IT. See there what you did? I always get a cheeseburger with nothing on it and once, when I got my cheeseburger with no cheese on it, I complained and was reminded I ordered cheeseburger with NOTHING ON IT.
When I said a cheeseburger without cheese is just a a hamburger, I got a vacant stare.
“Help wanted. Apply within. No IQ test required.”
Hmm…Disappearing fish? Symbolic of loss of faith?
Growing up in a large family such mysteries abound. We had a simple explanation, “It was the other family that lives here.” In reality it was most likely people forgetting they did or used something. As for you fish wish, I’d note when you checked the sandwich, you were looking for what wasn’t there and not what was, though that would still be odd with a filet-o-fish, since the square patty protrudes from the bun. More of a mystery to me is how you can eat it without the tartar sauce and cheese.
Your fish got its freedom that day!
I would wonder if one of your cats stowed away in your vehicle and pilfered the fish.
When I worked at McDonald’s, we kept getting back cheeseburgers with cheese, mustard, ketchup, onion, pickle – and no burger. About 20 people came back complaining. Turns out the cook was severely sleep deprived. The burgers were made assembly line style in those days, and he had set up 30 buns with cheese and condiments. This would be done while the burgers fried. The poor guy was in a zone, and wrapped the buns without the meat. It was actually funny!
As for your fish, who knows? It may have been dropped, or maybe you thought you saw it? I have had many experiences where I was convinced I saw something, but it wasn’t true or really there. I have received McDonald’s orders with empty buns, it actually happens quite a bit when it’s busy. Watch out for a funny smell in your car. Mystery solved!
I agree with Obstacle. Bruces’s kat is a suspect. My kat would fight a pitbull for a filet o’ fish.