My infatuation with the "golden arches" began as a child in the 1970s when my family lived down the street from a McDonald's restaurant. The manager responded to my father's complaints about hamburger wrappers all over his lawn by sending one of their employees down the street twice a week to pick up trash from everybody's front lawns - and they did it for years. Since picking up litter was my chore in the house, me and McDonald's got off to a good start....