My kids love fast-food outlets. McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut - you name it, they love it. In fact, I've concluded long ago that if McDonald's and gang are to serve plain rice with salt-water, that would be acceptable to my kids who simply ignore their mum's cooking most of the time. We are talking of nasi tomato (it's not white & too many black things in it), ayam masak merah ('pedas' even when only tomato ketchup was used in the cooking), sausages (too hard/soft, it's cracked, too hot, too cold) etc.



Anyhow, nearly all our trips would be filled with 'suggestions' like, "Abah, let's go to McDonald's", "Abah, I'm hungry. Can we go to Pizza Hut?", "Abah, when we go to KFC, what should I order?" (BTW, the last one came up without me ever mentioning KFC during the trip).



Last week, I started becoming very cooperative. We went to McDonald's and at the point of paying, I asked them to give me their 'duit raya' & we paid their meals with their duit raya. You should see the expressions on their faces.



The next day, I offered them for a change. "Shall we go to McDonald's?" & quickly came the reply, "Are you paying with your money or OUR money?".



"Your's of course."



"No, I don't want to go then."



Peace at last when I'm driving.