Spoke with an employee on a field trip there a month ago and they’re set for remodel in mid-August. Everything pictured will be gone and remade into another “McPrison”
The employee said the owner held out as long as she could but the building conditions were getting so bad that McDonald’s as a corporation said no more repairs unless they remodel.
Locals made offers to buy the Play Place and set it up publicly for kids to play on but McDonald’s said everything had to be demolished.
I hadn’t been in a Play Place in years. I was able to take my daughter and she made friends with two other little girls who were there playing. She had such a good time that when we left, she cried for a solid thirty minutes before falling asleep on the long ride home.
It reminded me of the McDonald’s from when I was a kid. For an hour, I was able to forget that the food was a health hazard and all the shady behind-the-scenes stuff didn’t exist. It was the place I went to once a month as a kid to get a burger, play in the Play Place and get a fun toy of Sonic The Hedgehog or Bugs Bunny.
It’s not that I hate change, I just hate change for the worse.
So, I have a big advice post to write, but until I have the spoons, I want to warn everyone now who has legally changed their first name:
Your credit score may be fucked up and you need to:
check *now* that all your financial institutions (credit cards, loans, etc) have your current legal name and update where necessary
check that all 3 credit bureaus, on their respective sites, not via a feed like Credit Karma (so, Trans Union, Equifax, Experian) are collecting that info correctly and generating the right score - you might need to monitor them for a few months if you made any changes in #1
I am about to apply for a mortgage and learned that as of 2 weeks ago:
Experian suddenly thinks I am 2 different people - Legal Name and Dead Name (none of whom have a score)
Equifax has reported my active 25 year old mortgage as closed and deleted one of my older credit cards, hurting my score by 30+ points
Credit scores influence everything from big home/car loans to insurance rates to job and housing applications.
And for whatever reason, the 3 bureaus that have the power to destroy your life are shockingly fragile when it comes to legally changing one’s first name.
So, yeah. Once I get this mess cleaned up for myself, I have a big guide in the works if you find yourself in the same predicament. But with the mass trans migration out of oppressive states, odds are there are a lot of newly renamed people who are about to have a nasty shock when applying for new housing.
people who think kids are stupid have clearly never once had to attempt to get through explaining a set of safety rules and expectations to a group of them. lawyers wish they had the falcon’s eye for loopholes, technicalities, and potential exceptions that the average 3rd grader possesses.
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