“Yo, we might not be going to the movies. I got a knife sticking out my back.”
The man who walked into a Queens McDonald’s after getting stuck with a blade calmly delivered that bad news to his daughter from his cellphone as he paced around the eatery.
Andrew Hardy, 53, of Jamaica told The Post he planned to see “Think Like a Man Too” with his 22-year-old bartender daughter until he was stabbed with a kitchen knife on Tuesday, he said.
“Me and my daughter was supposed to be spending quality time together,” he said from his Jamaica home. “We were meeting up that afternoon.”
Their matinee plans were spoiled by a street fight around 10 a.m. on Sutphin Boulevard near 91st Street. At first two men were fist-fighting. But when another man jumped in — and the two ganged up on the lone fighter — Hardy leveled the playing field by holding one of the men back.
Moments later, he felt a sharp pain in his upper back. By the time he realized he had been stabbed, the attacker was gone. Gushing blood through his white shirt, Hardy called his daughter, then walked toward the Golden Arches a block away — with the kitchen knife poking out of his back.
“I stood outside just talking to my daughter. Just staying calm. Probably longer than I should have — but that was my little comfort zone,” Hardy said.
“She got hysterical, naturally . . . but I still kept my cool because, if I had really got hurt, stabbed-stabbed, I would have really known that it had hit some vital,” he said. “S–t, I got a cool demeanor.”
Hardy figured surveillance cameras in the restaurant would keep the attacker from following him inside, he said.
“When I felt [the knife], I just thought, ‘Get to safety,’ which was why I put myself in front of a camera, in case the dude come back at me,” he added.
“Basically, I was fully alert the whole time. I passed out, finally,” he said of his ambulance trip to Jamaica Hospital, where he spent six hours recuperating.
“It should have never went the way it went,” said Hardy, who still has no clue who stabbed him.
His daughter, who declined to give her name, said, “My dad is pretty strong. And he told me he was going to be OK, so I believed him.”