--- title: Woman Spends Week in KFC After Getting Dumped by Boyfriend description: "I just wanted some chicken wings." canonical: https://time.com/3531520/woman-spends-week-in-kfc-after-getting-dumped/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-22T18:16:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:58.650Z og:title: Woman Spends Entire Week In KFC After Getting Dumped By Her Boyfriend og:description: "I just wanted some chicken wings." og:url: https://time.com/3531520/woman-spends-week-in-kfc-after-getting-dumped/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34cef1428ab298b6/69876244a988ca44546a9fa0/72431338.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1362 og:image:height: 766 og:image:alt: Col Harland Sanders founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Spends Entire Week In KFC After Getting Dumped By Her Boyfriend twitter:description: "I just wanted some chicken wings." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34cef1428ab298b6/69876244a988ca44546a9fa0/72431338.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Spends Entire Week In KFC After Getting Dumped By Her Boyfriend by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Oct 22, 2014 6:16 PM UTC  Col. Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Col. Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.John Olson—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Oct 22, 2014 6:16 PM UTC After getting dumped by her boyfriend, a woman in China realized that only one person could help her in her time of need: Colonel Sanders. Tan Shen, 26, accidentally on-purpose spent a full week at a 24/7 KFC in Chengdu, calling in sick to work, to mourn the loss of her relationship. “I hadn’t planned on staying there long, I just wanted some chicken wings,” Tan [told Yahoo](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lovesick-chinese-woman--26--dumped-by-boyfriend-spends-entire-week-in-kfc-131549197.html#K9UoyF4). “But once I got in there and started eating I decided I needed time to think.” But is KFC really where you’d want to spend your time of mourning? Are the chicken wings _really_ that good? After all, Tan herself admits that after a week, “I was getting sick of the taste of chicken, so there was no point in staying there anymore.” (That and local media started showing up to take photos). Here are some places that might have been better week-long hideaways: **McDonald’s** Find a Play Place and start enjoying the little things in life again. **Walmart** If it’s good enough for a 9-month pregnant woman, as depicted in _Where The Heart Is_, it should be good enough for the lovesick. **Anthropologie** Just so aesthetically pleasing. **A make-your-own, pay-by-the-pound Fro-Yo shop** Because… cliches. Maybe then Tan would have looked slightly more upbeat: > [](https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/524970085338087424) > [](https://twitter.com/SickChirpse/status/524923230138544129) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3531520/woman-spends-week-in-kfc-after-getting-dumped/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3531520/woman-spends-week-in-kfc-after-getting-dumped/"},"headline":"Woman Spends Entire Week In KFC After Getting Dumped By Her Boyfriend","datePublished":"2014-10-22T18:16:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:58.650Z","description":"\"I just wanted some chicken wings.\"","url":"https://time.com/3531520/woman-spends-week-in-kfc-after-getting-dumped/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Dating","viral","relationships","Food and Beverage","KFC"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34cef1428ab298b6/69876244a988ca44546a9fa0/72431338.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34cef1428ab298b6/69876244a988ca44546a9fa0/72431338.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Col Harland Sanders founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken","caption":"Col Harland Sanders founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken","creditText":"John Olson—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3531520/woman-spends-week-in-kfc-after-getting-dumped/","name":"Woman Spends Entire Week In KFC After Getting Dumped By Her Boyfriend"}}]}] ```