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Skriven 2015-10-31 15:57:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: Discounts
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 10-29-15  05:55 <=-

 NB>>> participating restaurants, to keep AARP customers happy and coming...
 NB>>> and then I seem to always revert back to my usual, why bother... ;)
 DD>> Raising Cain accomplishes only two things, most time. Raises ones
 DD>> blood pressure and gives a very minor sense of having struck a blow for
 DD>> righteousness. Beyond that it typically does little of a positive
 DD>> nature. 
 NB>> I'd likely only raise a quiet ruckus... not enough to get the blood
 NB>> pressure up... maybe just the sense of striking a blow for the right...
 NB>> but, yeah... the chance of it doing any really is pretty slim... :)

 DD> I might say something - and unless I get a snotty reply/comment be
 DD> quiet in so doing. If the problem is egregious enough I vote with my
 DD> wallet and my feet and urge others to do the same.

Well, yeah... depends on whether or not I'm inclined to come back
whether or not I'd say anything...  Egregious enough, and I'd vote with
my wallet and feet etc...  ;)

 DD> I gave Denny's a wide berth for many years because the service tended
 DD> to suck rocks and the food was ..... well, I've served better in my
 DD> school days working in the cafeteria doling out mystery meat slathered
 DD> with tasteless brown goo billed as "gravy".
 DD> I was pleasantly surprised when the local Denny's cleaned up its act
 DD> and became (nearly) the Denny's I knew of old. Still, on the road I
 DD> avoid Denny's like the plague - druther hit a C-store for a couple
 DD> roller grill items and a drink --- to go.

Hadn't been to Denny's except when someone else chose them... I think my
Gram used to think they were a decent place, but I don't recall being
all that impressed even when we'd go with her...  :)  As far as on the
road, I tend to not make stops to eat... rather have stuff in the car to
nibble at along the way... And then look for a promising looking asian
place at the destination...  ;)

 DD>>> If I want "senior" stuff I go to IHOP for their "Senior Omelette" with
 DD>>> pepper Jack cheese and sausage.
 NB>>> Is it a proper-sized serving for a nicely reduced price...?
 DD>> You betcha -- or I wouldn't go back. Three eggs, plenty cheese (choice
 DD>> of four styles), sausage, bacon or ham, and sided by toast and taters
 DD>> or two nice-sized buttermilk pancakes.
 NB>> And is that available throughout the day or only at breakfast...?

 DD> I've had it morning, noon, and night-time, too.

Ok... I'll keep that in mind... :)  We do have a IHOP locally... never
know when one might end up there... :)

 DD>> My only objection to the pancakes
 DD>> is that my local IHOP seems to keep the butter balls in the I
 DD>> scream freezer and it's a real pain to spread on your hot cakes.
 NB>> Have to tuck the butter balls between the hot cakes to melt the
 NB>> butter, I suppose...  :)  Or suggest to them that it's an area for
 NB>> improvement on their part....? (G)

 DD> If I think of it - when I order I ask the server to please have the
 DD> kitchen nuke to butter serving(s) for 15 seconds or so. It really
 DD> helps. 

That would work...  :)

 DD> Last Sunday my friends, Les and Dorothy, and I went to Little Flower
 DD> Parish Men's Club pancake and sausage breakfast. The year before I had
 DD> complained to one of the guys in the Men's Club that it made no sense
 DD> to have the packaged/sealed, whipped butter portions on ice. All it did
 DD> was make them hard to spread. This year the Land O Lakes packets were
 DD> just in a tub. And, at room temp, they spread very nicely.   Bv)=

Nice...  :)  And nice that they remembered for this year...  :)

 NB>> Oh, and further to my btw of the last message.. twas two messages to
 NB>> me and two to MLoo... Not sure if one should just point him to Outpost,
 NB>> or if you might want to repost...?

 DD> Either I missed a message - or it never made it to Doc's. I'm at a

The message of mine that I referred to was in response to one of yours
to me from Shenks, that hadn't made it to Docs... That message
apparently didn't get out anywhere from Tiny's, so I'm resending it in
what should be the next message to you (sending from Doc's, so in the
same packet)... 

 DD> loss to make any sense if the above paragraph. I went to Doc's and
 DD> re-read the last two pages of messages from thee to me without
 DD> discovering a "Eureka" moment. Also looked at a page of most recent you
 DD> to MLoo posts. 

I was referring to a set of four messages from you posted at Shenks that
hadn't turned up at Docs... Two were to me, and two were to MLoo... In
any case, that is now moot... since with this packet from Doc's there
was a large dump of previously missing messages, including those... so
MLoo should find them ok after all...  :)  (Just out of date order,
somewhat...) 

 DD> As to recommending "Outpost" to anyone ..... I'd hold off on that
 DD> until Whistle gets things stabilised. Been down the past two or three
 DD> days. (I check at least twice every day)

I hear you... I've not been on for a few days either... hope he gets
things stabilised soon...  I had, though, seen the missing messages
there (I think the last time I did happen to connect, probably), as well
as other places...  :)

 DD> Janis isn't accepting TelNet connections during the hours I am
 DD> active (04:00-06:30) with my messaging activities. 

Haven't tried her yet... Kinda saving my next addition to something that
would have Scrabble as well as Fido...  :)  Just wish that mark would
figure out how to make offline work again at his place...  ;0

ttyl      neb

... "I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house." -- sw

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