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Royal Cheeseburger

I have never been a big fan of Mcanything as a dietary supplement, yet within the last year,here in Moscow, I have found myself short of time and a golden arches within walking distance on two seperate occasions. I nervously awaited, in the closest thing resembling a queue I have ever seen in Moscow, until it was my turn to order. The first time I asked the mcemployee if she spoke english, "Het, not so well", I smiled and slowly ordered a number 2, Royal Cheeseburger, it comes with fries and a drink? doesn't it?, "Da, ya punymayo" she replied. She rang my total up, I don't really remember how much, but thought to myself "huh, similar to California pricing", she brought my order to me in a bag and the first thing Inoticed was there was no drink, with the line getting a bit over zealous to get their saturated fats, I stepped over to the fist available table and found that I had purchased two cheeseburger "no ladna, A swing and a miss" i thought in Baseball terms. A few months later with an expanded Russian Vocabulary, I tried again. "Ya Hachu, Royal Cheeseburger Combinacion" the young man asked me what I wanted to drink and I replied a Coke, a-ha, progress. I thought I was home free, and feeling a little cocky at being understood, I inquired, "dva combinacion? da?" seeing that the Royal Cheeseburger was the second one shown. "Da, Ya punymayo" was his response. This time the total seemed a little high,and five minutes later, as I walked to my table carrying my tray with the two childrens, not royal, cheeseburger meals, I decided that my best bet was to have my wife write me a note.

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