Ah Pete, and others, one doesn't go to the Waffle House for the food (tho I admit I like the plain waffle), you go for the entertainment. Chain-smoking, gruff voiced, teeth missing waitresses. Nearly extinct fry-cooks putting out plate after plate with only the wait-staff yelling in the orders. And, the customers? Oh, that is a story in itself.
Given that most (all?) chain food is abysmal, I often vote for the entertainment.
P.S. We were recently traveling thru Thermopolis, WY. (Absolutely wonderful little town pretty much in the middle of WY replete with thermal hot springs--ergo the name--and a wild buffalo enclave. From there, we traveled thru an incredibly beautiful mountain pass topping off of 9636 feet!) The $28 a nite motel didn't have coffee in the room so we stopped by a McD's. After I'd paid for coffee and juice, a cowboy (yes Maria, they still exist) came in and asked for the senior discount for coffee--30 cents. I asked how one qualified for the discount; once told, I said I qualified. The counter-person replied that I didn't look old enuf. Tho I had I.D. to prove that I did, I chose not to challange the compliment and left, having paid full price.
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