Today a friend called and invited us to go to McDonalds for lunch with them. We went, played and I gave the 10 minute warning when Sam comes screaming down the slide that she couldn't make it. It took me a second to figure out what she was saying but when I did we were in the bathroom lickety-split. It was too late, she had already peed in the play place. So I go tell a manager, then go back in to collect the rest of my children and try to exit as quickly and quietly as possible. There is an emergency exit door in the play area that when the door opens it dings a few times like a doorbell but stops when the door shuts. I have gone out this door before so I didn't really think about it. Sometime since the last time I was there they changed the doorbell ding to a full on fire alarm in the entire McDonalds. I am pulling my kids through the door so I can shut it to stop the alarm, but when the door shuts the alarm doesn't stop. Now I have the entire restaurant staring at me, a daughter with wet pants who is now screaming because her feet are burning on the sidewalk because she doesn't have shoes on and I can't get to the car fast enough. As I was loading the kids in the car I saw the same manager I talked to earlier resetting the alarm on the door. I'm sure he hopes we never come back.
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