We've all been there
BORK!BORK!BORK! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.
Spotted by a Register reader in Healdsburg, a town in Sonoma County, the screen should inform patrons of the progress of their order in the McDonald's kitchen. It is, however, showing the progress of a Windows crash dump, which appears to be at 100 percent.
The layout of the screen of baleful blue indicates that it is at least a relatively recent version of Windows. However, despite the modernity of the technology on show, some old habits never die. In this case, Windows is opting to fall into a heap rather than do something as complicated as showing columns of order numbers.
The bork desk has fond memories of the days before order screens. In years gone by, a human would take an order after the customer had scrutinized the greasy delights on the heated shelves behind to ensure the required feast was readily available.
Now a screen must be jabbed and hands washed before waiting in front of the order screen. Or, in this case, wondering if the kitchen systems are as thoroughly borked as those front-of-house.
It's hard to see, but the error looks like the classic IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, which Windows usually spits out when a driver or other code stomps on memory it shouldn't. It could be that the system behind the scenes has undergone an update that caused instability, or that something has become corrupted.
To be fair, consuming a few too many of the products on sale in such an establishment could cause the human equivalent of a Blue Screen of Death followed by a crash dump, so the order screen could be more of a salutary warning rather than Windows throwing a wobble.
"Mummy, what's that noise from the bathroom?"
"Oh, it's just Uncle Bob, halfway through a crash dump…" ®