Woman Rides Horse Through a McDonald’s Drive-Thru
Apparently it's not that uncommon?
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Sometimes — and we probably don’t need to tell you this on a Monday — you need your coffee and you need it now. Even if you’re on your horse.
A woman in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, an English town just a few miles north of London, apparently saw no reason not to remain in the saddle and queue up with the cars to ride her horse through the McDonald’s drive-thru the other day, touching off great excitement in the British tabloids.
In an incident that has galloped through news outlets including The Mirror, The Sun, The Manchester Evening News and Bristol Live, a ponytailed, riding-booted, jeans-wearing young woman on horseback “stunned” drivers by lining up to place her order at the McDonald’s drive-thru on what appears, in photos recording the incident, to be a misty gray day.
When it came time to place her order, the woman did dismount. But the horse seems to have wanted to continue to be a part of the fast-food-fetching action and “curiously poked its nose through the [pickup] window — either fascinated by mouth-watering aromas or looking for its nosebag,” according to Bristol Live.
Eventually, the woman picked up her coffee, and strolled off — cup in one hand, phone in the other, casually chatting on the phone as she led her horse away.
“Whether she treated her four-legged companion to a bag of carrot sticks is between her, the server and the steed…,” Bristol Live noted.
But some commenters reacting to that widely cited report saw nothing unusual about the whole thing.
“My daughter use to do things like this.. we lived 10 miles outside of town and when she took off on her horse she'd ride up to the window and order herself something to go,” wrote one.
“Why not? Seems fair enough. Nice filly,” another blasély opined.
And perhaps they’re right. Just last month, a woman in Wales was spotted doing the same thing. She didn’t even bother to dismount!
That incident prompted one man to quip that the horse “probably just wants a chicken Mc-neigh-get meal…” and a Mirror headline writer to suggest that instead the horse was interested in a “Filly-o-fish.”
No point trying to top that …
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