Morning, peeps :RedinDC:
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Morning, peeps :RedinDC:
Lately I have really wanted to try Sonic.
However I am a little intimidated because I am not sure how to order. If I park my car at one of the menus do servers come up to my car to take my order or do I speak into something and then they bring my food to me? And do I have to eat it in my car if i order that way? And it looks like they have a normal drive thru as well, so how is that different than the park and order?
Is there an inisde where I can go and look at the menu or do I have to have a car to go there.
I am afraid to even drive into the parking lot cause then someone might ask me for my order and I won't know what the hell to do!
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Originally Posted by Puffy
Your fears are well founded, Puff-meister.
You do order to the menu. It's actually a robot. And if you screw up, or aren't clear in any way, a giant mechanical arm comes out of the menu and whacks you upside the head.
I knew it! I always thought it was strange that I would drive by there and see the same car parked at the same menu two hours later. Dude must of ordered wrong and got rapped upside the head and been knocked unconsious.Quote:
Originally Posted by RFS62
Thanks RFS, I am now officially not going there until I find someone who can go with me who knows the proper procedures!
Different Strokes was a great show - but did anyone else find the episode where Gordon Jump (Mr. Carlson from WKRP in Cincinnati) was a child molester a little disturbing?
I mean it didn't fit with anything - it wasn't funny, and was really just downright bizarre.
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Originally Posted by Puffy
I was always disturbed by that episode and wouldn't watch WKRP after that because I though Gordon Jump was really a child molester. I also felt sorry for Dudley.
Yeah, Arnold knew something was amiss, but Dudley was into everything until those wierd cartoons and Gordon Jump shirtless finally kicked the light on for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
But seriously, it fit nothing, all of a sudden, out of the blue this wierd episode was on. And when Mr. Drummond stood up to Gordon Jump - who really thought Mr. D could beat anyone up? He tried to act tough, but come, Willis was the muscle in that family.
Never saw that episode..thankfully
Sonic also has a drive through, I went to it instead of the park and order thing because I was afraid of screwing it up
So I did the drive through, and THEN parked in one of the spaces :D
The robot arm was not amused ;)
I got a bunch of food at the store, come home and the freaking freezer is packed..now I have to cook a bunch of it, then put it in Tupperware and then put it in the fridge
Dang small freezers
And I'm not a big fan of hopple street or Clifton today :D
Pizza for lunch..how bout the rest of you?
What are you going to cook for the tupperware storage? Let me guess - taco meat, pizzas, and mac and cheese?? :mhcky21:
It must have been one of those "very special episodes" they would have on every once in awhile on a sitcom. Like on WKRP when they did the diet pill episode or the Who concert episode.
Going to Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers for lunch. Double burger with swiss and mushrooms....mmmmmmm.Quote:
Originally Posted by KronoRed
Smart assQuote:
Originally Posted by Puffy
Some kind of chicken thing, some kind of veggie thing and the pizza is already in the oven :D
You make my supreme pizza sound lame ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
Sorry about that. I've been looking forward to this lunch all week. They have a special on Friday's for the double mushroom swiss burger, but I have a lunch meeting tomorrow, so I decided to go today and pay the 'non-special' price because its so good.Quote:
Originally Posted by KronoRed
Where is this place?
I'm free tomorrow to drive far for lunch :D
I'll grab a menu when I'm there to see where their store locations are. I know there's about 4 in the Dayton area. Not sure if they go any further south or if they are only locally operated.Quote:
Originally Posted by KronoRed
Thanks :)
Anyone else retreat to this thread when the baseball side just goes bonkers?
I've just looked at this thread for the first time.
What the heck is going on in here :evil: Rampant ambient jocularity!
Welcome :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
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Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
It took you 45 pages worth of posts before your curiousity got the best of you, and you had to find out what was going on in here? This is the best thread ever. It beat Raisor's "Girls are Evil" thread by a landslide as my favorite thread ever.
He's with us now, we must convert the rest of the board :mhcky21:
It looks interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
Some comments...
- I used to work in the office park across the street from Wright State and there was a Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers in the shopping center next to it. Great burgers and get the apple beer (or whatever it was called).
- Sonics... It's called a drive-in and you young whippersnappers must not remember how it was considered very cool to cruise on and park for hours talking to the girls. My favorite was the Frisch's in Centerville at Whipp and Rt. 48. Trivia time... Roy worked there in his youth and had to fill in for the car hop at the drive-in a couple times. Roy had to take food out to his buddies who did not let Roy forget that for a long, long time.
- Taco meat in a tupperware container makes everything stored in that container taste like taco meat for at least 6 months.
- My wife's uncle was very good friends with Gordon Jump in Dayton. I got to meet him a couple times and he was a very friendly guy.
Response: The Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers across from Wright State is still there. There is also locations on Jefferson St, and by the Dayton Mall, but I don't think Krono can drive THAT FAR for lunch, so I'll see if they have any locations closer to KY.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
When I was a kid, we used to go to the drive-in at Frisch's all the time. My Dad used to harass the waitresses (and I'd get embarrassed). He'd say things like "I'll have the chicken in a basket meal, without the basket." and silly stuff like that just to embarass me and my sister. I find I do the same kinds of things with my kids....
You're absolutely right about Taco meat in the tupperware. Don't do it.
My Dad met Gordon Jump a couple times when I was younger as well, actually shortly after I watched the Diff'rent Strokes episode. I still thought he was a child molestor, even though my Dad told me repeatedly he wasn't and that that was all made up for the show. I was probably 13 or 14 before I actually believed him, when I met him myself.
Resistance is futile.Quote:
Originally Posted by KronoRed
Too bad I'm not winning money like that guy!Quote:
Originally Posted by KronoRed
Re. Gordon Jump: My former boss went to high school with him.
Cool! My uncle's cousin's college roommate's sister had a boyfriend whose brother dated a girl who gave him crabs. But she didn't know Gordon Jump!Quote:
Originally Posted by RosieRed
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
I do that too. Must be a dad thing. My middle daughter says "Dad!" and socks me in thee shoulder when I do it. She is getting big and its starting to really hurt but I can't show pain so I just laugh. It really makes her mad. But then, that's my job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
I worked at that Frisch's in 1966-67. They've torn it down haven't they? It was my 3rd job after the car wash at Alex-Bell and 48 and the donut shop behind Frisch's. The car wash paid $1.15 an hour. I cleared less that a buck an hour.
After Frisch's, I bagged groceries at Phil and Jerry's Foodarama (along with every other kid that grew up in Centerville between 1955 and ~1985).
All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
Bueller
Anyway, no I did not put taco meat in a Tupperware container, no taco meat today
Weirdos, knowing so much about my lunch habits :D
Yea, Roy. They tore the Frisch's down about 5-6 years ago now. The drive in was taken out at least 10 years ago. There is another restaraunt there now. I forget the name of that restaurant that's there now, but its like some Coffee / Bread type place like a Panera Bread. I don't remember the donut shop behind Frisch's but I remember there was a Kodak? film booth in that parking lot that looked like a small carnival tent made out of metal. I always wanted to work in there when I was a kid. Fooderama is also a thing of the past. I used to walk there with my sister everyday in the summer to buy gum and candy. My sister got her butt kicked by my Dad for the only time in my memory for stealing a donut from their bakery, she was the "good kid". Ahh, memories.
I remember going to drive-in restaurants (Frisch's, A&W) with my parents when I was younger, and I never really understood it. What is/was so great about sitting outside a restaurant and eating in your car?
No lunch for me today except maybe some fresh fruit- I got overly enthusiastic and had 2 bowls of Trix this morning instead of one... :doh:
But don't worry, I'll make up for it tonight, since my mom and I are having "girls' dinner out" and are going to Max & Erma's!!! :) Mmmmm, can't wait!!
Obviously it's the 'flirting with the people in the next car' :MandJ:Quote:
Originally Posted by RosieRed
Somehow I don't think family's would enjoy that ;)
I never really understood why it was cool to eat in the car with your whole family, but I can see how it would be cool if you were in high school in the 60's to eat there on a date, or after a football game, etc. Would have been great if my generation had something like that we could have done rather than go to somebody's house and trash it while their parents were out of town. I never understood why kids in high school were so excited to have parties when their parents went out of town...most of the time, they ended up getting grounded and had to work for the whole summer to pay for things that were broke at those parties, or they got in trouble with the law. What's so cool about that?Quote:
Originally Posted by RosieRed
Getting to start your car every once in a while and vrrroooommming the engine to impress the girls from Miamisburg and try to get them into the back seat.Quote:
Originally Posted by RosieRed
The off chance that the party is cool enough for the grounding, become a legend and all that ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Leader
I never threw any parties like that :D I just hopped in a car with a friend and drove north 900 miles, left my parents a note :evil:
Probably because it was a novelty. An old girlfriend of mine grew up here and she visited me when I was still living in Iowa. She thought going to the A&W there where they still had drive-in service was so cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by RosieRed
And perhaps the popularity of the movie American Grafitti in the early-mid 70s had something to do with it as well.