Was thinking the very same thing. It's freaking STOOOOPID! Now if an employee had not put the lid on right or had dropped it into her lap, I might see it as being the fault of McDonalds and the employee. My youngest is pretty smart when it comes to most things but sadly, she never admits fault to anything. I saw this happening at a young age and it came to a head one day at a birthday party. Don't remember what age she was...maybe 8 or 9 and she had several of her friends over. We had a large wooden swing set with the fort, slide, rope....it was loaded out out pretty good and several were playing tag and running all over and around it. One little girl started climbing up the slide and my daughter saw her as an easy target. She 'tagged' her with both hand running full speed and the other little girl went flying off the slide landing spread eagle and started crying. I just happened to be watching all of this unfold and really couldn't believe what I just saw. I immediately ran over to make sure the little girl was ok and then asked my daughter why she did that. Her reply was that she didn't do what I had just saw her do and that she only tagged her.
Even when I told her that she pushed her off the slide and what she did was NOT a tag, she still denied it and denied it very loudly. I told her to go in the house and go to her room and think about it. Thing is, she still didn't see anything wrong with what she did. We later had a discussion about it and I showed her the difference between getting tagged and being pushed but it didn't do any good. A couple of years later something else she did came up and denied it and I brought up the slide incident and she still denied any wrong doing.
We had hell with her in grade school. Rules were for someone else and not her. I have no idea how she brought home A's all the time while her conduct grade ware always terrible. She'll be 29 this summer and I have never heard her admit to being at fault for anything but yet she manages to hang onto a decent paying job for many years now. I guess she does good work and the company likes her enough to not notice (too much) how often she's late for work.