First of all, 'The Robin Hood of McNuggets' is the most baller thing I think I've ever heard in my life. Cody putting that on his email talk in italics had to be an adrenaline rush and a half.
Second of all: I love this story. Some are suspicious that it isn't true, that Cody just made it up to go viral on Twitter and gain more followers that would then have access to his podcast, etc. Look, all of that sounds like it might be true now that I've typed it out, but even so, my message to the doubters (who are probably right) is this:
If I can't believe in the Robin Hood of McNuggets, then I don't want to believe in anything*. I love that he slipped an extra nugget into the 10-piece orders, I love that no one caught him, I love that it cost a major corporation a small amount of money, I love it all.
Another interesting side-story to this post is the amount of people in the thread who are admitting to doing similar things. Skimming a little bit from the company they work for to make people happy. My buddy, Nick, and I did a similar thing in the summer of 2006. We were working for the Wisconsin Woodchucks on their radio call for the entire summer, and a promotion that the Woodchucks did for the United Way was called, 'double play for the United Way.' Every double play the Chucks turned, was a $50 donation to the United Way. Since we were calling every game, we were tasked with keeping track of the double plays, and giving them a total at the end of the year so they could cut a check. I don't want to get into the minutia of what it's like to spend a summer with a college baseball team on a bus for three months, but it wasn't the most comfortable job in the world. We encountered 1st World problem after 1st World problem after 1st World problem. So at the end of the season, when they came to us for the total, we added 10 extra double plays to the tally. An extra $500 for a good cause never hurt anyone, except for the owner of the team. We figured it would work out for us karmically down the line. Still waiting.
*Be more dramatic, Jon.
PS: We talked about this on the air this morning, and a texter asked, 'who actually counts their McNuggets?' Fair point. I considered this as well. I would imagine roughly 20-30% of the people he hooked up with an extra McNugget actually noticed said nugget. But for those people, what a moment!
