McDonalds (Jane and Major Mackenzie Location in Maple, Ontario, Canada) - the Whole Story of Events from Monday, September 21st, 2015 / 5777 - by Moses (a.k.a Stacey Marc Goldman)

  I walked into the McDonalds at Jane/Major Mackenzie late into the early morning hours of Monday, September 21st and ordered a large coffee.  I asked if I would get a free refill.  The girl behind the counter replied 'We give one or two refills on coffee.' I thanked her thinking nothing of it, sat down and enjoyed the coffee.  Just after finishing my beverage I went to a gas station and picked up a paper, came back, asked for a refill and I was obliged.  About an hour past (I'm a late night ghost writer and this was at about 3:30AM) and I went back to the counter to receive my second refill. Another server was at the counter and she asked me to wait while she asked her Manager if I could have a second refill.  I was waiting on the Manager when a guy from the front line said he would give me a refill.  Thinking nothing of it I thanked him, and he obliged my second refill.  The Manager came from the back and told the guy from the front line that he shouldn't have done that, proceeded to tell me that McDonalds only gives one refill for their coffee, and that in the future I would only get one free refill.  I said that I was okay with that but that the first girl that served me had said one or two refills when I ordered the coffee.  She re-iterated that it was only one refill.  I went back to my table and sat down to my paper, when I decided to ask the Manager why the mistake that the original girl made wasn't honoured in its' purist form (as I'm just a customer).  The Manager (Donna) argued again that McDonalds only gives one free refill.  I said to her I'm just the customer and when someone says one or two refills that it should be honored.  She cut me off and I excused her saying that I understand that I will only get one free refill in the future.  I then said that as a customer the second refill should have been honored without complaint and left it at that.  Donna then proceeded to re-iterate her sentiment again.  At this point I cut her off and said 'lady I don't think you should be playing last word with your customers.'  She said something else and I told her to Fuck Off.  She then started speaking in Phillopino to another worker there.  I asked her if she was flipping me off in Phillopino and she proceeded to call the police.  I went outside and had a cigarette, came back inside and went back to reading my paper.
  The police arrived at roughly 4:00AM.  An officer of the law, York Region Constable #2172 asked me what happened, and I told him the story.  He then went to the Manager and heard what she had to say.  He came back to me and told me that although I was probably was in the right, that the proprietor has the right to discriminate as to whom they serve and he asked me to leave for arguments' sake.  We went outside and I said to him 'You do see the hypocrisy here.'  He agreed.
  The irony to this story is that four months prior, I had come to the same McDonalds and had to deal with Donna on another matter.  Very simply I was told at 1:00AM that the McDonalds would be closed for in-house cleaning until 4:00AM.  When I came back at 4:00AM they wouldn't open the doors for me, only until a second customer arrived at 4:07AM.  This leads me to believe that this McDonalds' locale has an Anti-Semitic spin of things.  Being Arabic, I treasure my Semitic features.  I've even asked a couple of girls at the counter, jokingly, if they serve anything Kosher.  I've been going to this locale for about 1 year and have been treated poorly on a number of occasions.  I usually bite my tongue.  As an Arab I'm sensitive to my lineage as we see hypocrisy daily from many denominations.  Being a Jew or an Arab usually puts us in compromising situations on others' whims.  We have been scapegoated by a large population in North America.  I prefer to abstain from saying more on this matter of whom and where.  The Manager knows I'm Arabic yet implies my mannerisms as being irrational, when its' an Arabic trait.  This leads me to believe that as Moses (Moshe Shalom in Hebrew, Mousa Saliim in Arabic) I should be treated by the hands of Pharoah Ramses.  Should this be the case through every day of my life, I will die young as we're in the year 2015AD/5777, not in the year 1215 BCE/2547.  This constant twisting of perception has caused plague in enormous frequency among the Arabic/Judaic World.  We see turmoil in every Muslim and Jewish State, and Christianity is constantly reprimanded as being either 'White Power' or 'Black Power'.  In any Monathaic practice, Aboriginal (Hindu, Buddhist, Tao, Catholic, or Rastafarian) for that matter, there is a belief that there is one G-D.  How can I, as a law abiding Arab, justify this treatment of another human being.  My soul hurts every time things get twisted as they were tonight.