As Tropical-Storm-or-Hurricane-I-Can't-Decide-Which Ernesto approaches us, I've found a few Fridayish tidbits:

This one's not funny so much as offbeat. Today, McDonald's in the UK starts using McFlurry lids redesigned to keep hedgehogs from poking around inside for a yummy lick.

Seems the little guys kept getting their heads stuck inside the lids and starving to death. The new lids have smaller openings.

Fay Vass, chief executive of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, told Reuters the organization has lobbied McDonald's for five years on the issue. Reuters quotes Vass as saying she's "delighted that they have at last solved the problem."
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Overheard at a quick-serve Fresh Mex restaurant where we had lunch today: "I wish restaurants would just have a cage where the kids could be locked up and run around and play together without disturbing anyone."

The way Baby A was behaving, I probably would have put her in a cage, had there been one available. But my dream of eating a guacamole and bean soft taco in peace went unrealized.

It was a mom who made the cage comment, by the way, and I could totally see where she was coming from.
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Here's an example of how one family did the fast-food/home-cooking shuffle tonight. The kids were probably happier with what they got—but I have to say the parents' meal sounds fabulous! Sometimes it's so worth waiting 'til the kids go to bed and cooking something more worthwhile for the grown-ups.

Other nights, well, you just don't want to face the pots and pans afterwards.

Happy holiday weekend, if you're having one.