Fake potatoes, ice cream, and real people

So, I'm doing something right now that I never do. That my wife may consider as sin.
I'm sitting in a McDonald's. And not just sitting here, I've got a small fry and a chocolate sundae. Scandalous right?

Honestly, I get tired always trying to find inspiration in coffee shops. It's not always the environment either. But it seems that every coffee shop I walk into these days, (well almost anyway) is full of a bunch of people who are too much like me.
Young, mostly white, American people who are out to seek knowledge or try to do something good in the world, people who are at least dreaming about transforming lives.

I figure if we're all sitting around in the same places whose hanging out with the people whose lives we want to change?
At least that will be my excuse today for McDonalds.

It is definitely true though that McDonald's is full of a lot more colorful and different people than a coffee shop. Around me are people of all different races and ages... I avoid feeding these corporations so much that I forget people still come to these places and it gives me some kind of minor culture shock.

On a side note I'm debating seeing if the french fry effect (ya know how everyone says that McyD's fries never change no matter how long they sit around) will apply to my McDonald's ice cream... actually it's not really melting so far. hmmm..

And I definitely like the music so far... we got some linkin park, the fray, and some other old school bands...
and now that they're all going toward the McCafe look, it's actually pretty nice... with flat screens with CNN on, and little bar lights and bar stools. Nice shades of green.

Are all McDonald's like this now?

What happened to the bright red and yellow of my childhood with the huge plastic play places?

Ok, my ice cream melting now. That's probably a good sign.

Maybe this just goes to show. Don't get so caught up in dreaming good dreams, that you are too good to hang out with the real people and get some fries sometimes.