It is amazing how your perception of the world changes as you become an adult. I find I enjoy things now I would have hated as a kid. I also have learned that things I enjoyed long ago are not as pleasant at my present age. One such experience: McDonalds.
             I remember going to McDonalds as a 10 year old child. I would look up at the Golden Arches that seemed as tall as a skyscraper when my parents would pull into the parking lot. I was so excited. We were going to eat at my favorite place!. I remember looking around the outside of the restaurants. The ones near my house had playgrounds on the outside. I always looked at the ball pit. The multicolored balls looked like a rainbow, and the kids playing appeared to be swimming like fish through the little rubber balls that filled the pit. The sliding board looked a mile high as kids would swoosh down the bright yellow tube and fall gently into the balls below. The kids laughed that breathless laughs you make when you are out of breath but having so much fun you have to laugh anyway. I almost wanted to skip the food and go right to playing. My parents would walk me in and we would stand in line and look at the multicolored menu board, with its pictures of the mouthwatering food I loved so much. After we order the food we would make are way over to a table, all the way looking at the Red Striped Clothes of the Ronald McDonald statue with his giant smile that made me feel happy, or the sinister grin of the Hamburglar's face that always made me laugh when I looked at his statue. The food was a boy's dream. The burgers and fries were so salty it made your mouth feel like a desert when you scarfed the first bite down making you reach for the syrupy sweet cola that always tasted better that any soda you ever tasted from a can. An afterward, either at the McDonalds playground or at home, I would run and play with friends for hours feeling perfect and ener
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