The City - A Fable

Category police: This could have been under humor but the real version is not funny.
McDonalds's = City Engineering Dept.
A hamburger = A Lot Line Merger
Filet-o-fish = A Lot Line Adjustment

A man walks into a McDonald's, the only food available for a hundred miles, checks the menu and orders a hamburger, no pickles, no onions. The clerk takes his three dollars and comes back an hour later and says you're going to have to have a filet-o-fish. The man says "Don't you have any hamburgers?" and the clerk says "Yes, but the manager says hamburgers are too hard to make, so all you can have is the filet-o-fish." The man says "But hamburgers are on the menu, you have them, and that's what I want." The clerk confers with the manager, comes back two hours later and says "OK you can have your hamburger." Three hours later, the clerk comes back and says "What did you want on that hamburger again and by the way, we'll also need $20 because we're going to be re-paving the parking lot." The man says "Can you require me to pay the $20?" The clerk confers with the manager, comes back in an hour and says "No, but we just ask everybody that comes in and some people pay it." Man says "No, I just want the hamburger I paid for." Clerk comes back with the hamburger an hour later and says "Here's your hamburger, I forgot what you wanted on it and how about that $20 I asked you for?"