If they sold “happy meals” at KFC, this woman wouldn’t have been ordering one.
A 26-year-old Chinese woman named Tan Shen spent a week at a Kentucky Fried Chicken location near her home after being dumped by her boyfriend, reports Yahoo! News.
The woman, who is from an area of China’s southwest Sichuan Province, said she “needed time to think” after the breakup and resorted to chowing down on chicken wings at the fried food eatery.
“I was walking around feeling miserable and decided to stop off at the KFC at the train station,” Shen explained. “I hadn’t planned on staying there long, I just wanted some chicken wings. But once I got in there and started eating I decided I needed time to think. I didn’t want to go back to my apartment because it was full of memories of him. So I stayed.”
She even called in sick to work in order to remain at the fast food restaurant.
Like any normal human being would, the employees of the KFC joint grew concerned after a few days of Shen’s presence.
“We work in shifts here and the restaurant is open 24 hours a day, so we get a lot of people coming through,” detailed 22-year-old employee Jiang Li Lung. “At first no one really noticed her. But after a few days I began thinking she looked really familiar.”
“Then I realized we had been serving her for the past three days and that she hadn’t actually left,” he continued. “When we asked her if she was ok, she said she was and just needed time to think. And then asked for another box of chicken wings with extra large fries.”
Ultimately, when local reporters appeared and tried to cover the phenomenon, Shen fled the restaurant.
“I decided the best thing to do would be to leave the city and go back to my parents,” she recounted. “I had already told work I was off sick, so phoned them and said I was leaving. And I was getting sick of the taste of chicken so there was no point in staying there anymore.”
The restaurant, however, is not the same in Shen’s absence.
“I guess we kind of miss her. It certainly made work more interesting,” admitted Jiang Li Lung, a waitress.
