Free Daycare

Apparently nobody told me that you can take your kids to McDonald's for lunch and they provide free daycare. This is amazing. Apparently this is a big secret, why you ask? Wouldn't all parents want to know? How many millions of dollars that could be saved in daycare costs. You walk in, order your calorie filled meal, a few happy meals, have your kids eat two bites and you can sit with all your buddies and chat and you don't even have to worry for one second that your child will be lost at the bottom of a slide under 10 kids that decided to all go down at the same time and proceed to stomp on your child as they get out and do it again to another poor kid whose parents didn't know the big secret.
After two hours of catching up, reading your newspaper, reminiscing with the other mommies and daddies privvy to this secret, drinking your poisionous diet drink, and waiting for the imaginary bell to ring, to let you know that its time to start yelling at the top of your lungs, because, this too is part of their curriculum, your child, after all that quality care and attention at the McDonald's day care, they now have learned, when mom or dad calls, it's time to go. No, they will not run to the top of the slide, where you can't reach them, until pure desperation kicks in, and proceed to ignore you screaming and threatening them that you will in fact leave them there if they don't come down by the time you count to five.
You then, look back at all your "friends" and say, this happens everytime, why does it have to be so hard? Hard you say, you just had free daycare for 2 hours, poor, poor you.
And no, your child was not the one that pushed my kid down the stairs, stole his precious toy of the week, and sat down and ate his/her bonus ice cream, because they finally came down after you counted to 10, 10 times, without washing their hands of the gazillions of germs they have covered on them.