I went through Wendy’s drive thru. I’m not proud of it but I’m being real. The woman there sticks her head out the little square window, looks me dead in the eye, and just said, “The world is doomed.”

Straight up said it. “The world is doomed.”

I laughed because what else do you do when the Baconator lady informs you of the world’s grisly fate. Now, I wondered for a moment if I should eat the burger handed to me by a sayer of doom.

But then I wondered if maybe this is some kind of new customer service strategy, kind of an opposite of Chick-Fil-A. They’re gonna’ tell it like it is with no sugar coating. The more I thought about it I appreciated the honesty. And I not only felt safe chowing down this burger, I had to eat it. This burger was made by someone willing to tell me the hard truth and I grabbed that heated burger with a smile.

As a fellow doomsayer, when I pulled away I said, “Good luck with the world.”

She shook her head and responded wearily, “Good luck to you too. We’re all gonna need it.”

I think that’s my favorite new fast food. Wendy’s. They tell it like it is.