Those of us who play fantasy football are familiar with punishments. If you finish last in your league, you are mandated to do something that can be time-consuming, humiliating, bizarre, or all the above. I saw one punishment on social media over the weekend that got me thinking…

A person by the name of Joe DeLeone was the big loser in his league and was sentenced to 24 hours in a McDonald’s. Yes, Joe would have to park his behind inside a McDonald’s restaurant for an entire day unless he wanted to shorten his stay by “eating his way out.” A card was presented to DeLeone with menu items from McDonald’s in one column and the number of minutes that would be subtracted from his sentence if he consumed it. Look below for the details…

Take a look at the menu items and minute values that govern the punishment.

I immediately put myself in Joe’s situation. If it was a dozen years ago and I was single with no kids, I might embrace the 24 hours in McDonald’s and just hang out. I might sip on soda all day and make conversation with employees and customers. As someone who loves looking at the Costco carts of others to see what they fill it with, I would be similarly intrigued to hear what people are ordering at McDonald’s.

But news flash: I don’t exactly have 24 hours to waste away inside a fast food restaurant these days. So, I would probably do my best to shave off as much time as possible without triggering a heart attack. What I did first was calculate the number of minutes in 24 hours (which is 1,440 minutes) so I could work in the same units when it came to time and menu items.

I order McDonald’s from the drive-thru more often than eating inside so as you can imagine, spending 24 hours inside a restaurant would be a little cumbersome.

I then was realistic with myself. Eating enough menu items to cover 1,320 minutes (based on if I gave myself two hours to completely “eat myself out”) would probably send me to the hospital. So, I gave myself some grace. I reasoned that if this punishment was ever served to me, I would serve eight hours in the restaurant during the late night/early morning hours (10 p.m. – 6 a.m.) and hopefully eat 960 minutes worth of food.

With this goal, do you want to know the first thought that went through my mind? Chicken nuggets, baby! Eating a pack of 10 nuggets is good for 30 minutes. That means if I ate 320 nuggets, that would cover 960 minutes. Could I accomplish that in eight hours? That would be 40 nuggets per hour. I ate a 10-pack nugget just a few days ago and those pieces are pretty light. I really think I could do it! But what fun would that be?

Ice cream is good for 25 minutes with the punishment. However, brain freezes would only slow me down.

In the event that McDonald’s would run out of chicken nuggets (and to curb my own boredom), I would take a different eight-hour route. Cheeseburgers and an order of medium French fries count for 30 minutes each. In order to reach 960 minutes, you could simply eat 32 items that are valued at 30 minutes. Given eight hours, that means I would need to simply eat four 30-minute items per hour. Staying with me?

I know how I would accomplish that! I would eat an hourly meal of 20 nuggets (-60 minutes), 1 cheeseburger (-30 minutes), and 1 order of medium French fries (-30 minutes). I know all of that would really start to add up starting with just a couple hours, but it is a pace I know I could keep.

I hope to never spend 8 hours…let alone 24 hours…inside a McDonald’s.

It is a good thing that I don’t play fantasy football as I would never want to find myself in a situation such as this. But for other working dudes with a wife and kids who do play and happen to be at the bottom of their leagues, perhaps this plan can provide you some inspiration. Don’t Blink.