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No, not the Peach bowl, the restaurant. Ok it is only fast food. But, I hadn't had it in nearly two years after becoming addicted to it by eating it extremely frequently at my university's student Union.
So a week or so ago I decided to find the nearest Chick-Fil-A, because I was having a hankering for it. I figured I was in the Chicago area, all I had to do was go to a nearby mall and there would be one. Boy was I wrong. Here is a list of the nearest seven restaurants with their distances from me.
quote:1. Regency Mall Tom Cutts - Unit # 246 5812 Durand Avenue Racine, WI 53406 262/554-5009 43.98 miles from the center
2. Scottsdale Mall - Unit # 282 1290 Scottsdale Mall South Bend, IN 46614 574/291-4259 97.36 miles from the center
3. University Park Mall Kathy Wonderly - Unit # 315 556 University Park Mall Mishawaka, IN 46545 574/272-2247 99.49 miles from the center
4. Illinois State University Unit # 80176 Open to students/faculty only. Call for further information. Bloomington, IL 61791-2610 309/438-3663 119.07 miles from the center
5. Lafayette FSU Alex Vann - Unit # 1409 3836 State Road 26 East Lafayette, IN 47905 765/446-2053 130.11 miles from the center
6. Southpark Mall Bruce Anderson - Unit # 241 4500 16th Street Moline, IL 61265 309/797-2271 134.52 miles from the center
7. Northpark Mall DuPre Bingham - Unit # 189 320 West Kimberly Road Davenport, IA 52806 563/391-2613 136.00 miles from the center
As you can see none of them are terribly accessible to me. I may have to go visit Celia next time I want a Chick-Fil-A fix. However, I just happened to be travelling to Davenport, Iowa this weekend to pick up a dog. So, while I was there I asked my host if we could go to Chick-Fil-A for lunch. He was very accomodating and said he had never eaten at one even though he grew up in Oklahoma City where they are considerably more common.
So I went and got a chicken sandwich to eat then and three, 12-piece boxes of nuggets and polynesian sauce to take home and eat later. I drove back home through a snowstorm which was interesting. When I got them home, I gave one box of nuggets to Steve for dinner, had one myself, and put the third box in the fridge to take to work today.
This morning I went pull out said box and IT WASN'T THERE!!!! I ransacked the fridge and was nearly late to leave to get to work but it wasn't to be found. Now since there are only two humans in my house I had a pretty good idea who the culprit was- Steve. I just can't believe he ate them! I called him at work just now and bawled him out. I think he should drive to Racine, Wisconsin to compensate me for the lost chicken nuggets. Maybe I should threaten to remove some nuggets from his person that he is far more personally invested in, unless I get compensated.
I'm still ticked. Here I had my tastebuds all prepared for a tasty snack and they are no more!
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Also for those of you who were with me, remember that I have brought him, his favorite, Skyline Chilli from Ohio without ever doing something as crappy as this to him!
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There are some temptations that men are not meant to resist. Might as well wrap yourself in only a single green ribbon, sit under the Christmas tree, and expect to be left alone.
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Yeah, yeah, I know Chick Fil A isn't exactly gourmet. But still, I'm not ticked at him necessarily for eating a box of the chicken nuggets. I'm ticked he ate the LAST box of the nuggets, when I went to quite a bit of trouble to acquire them.
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slap him for me. man, we had to smell that bbq the whole drive home!
yeah, the lafayette one is pretty new. it opened my second semester here. they need to open one near campus. they have some weird deal with smoothy king that they can sell the salads and sandwiches, but they don't have the nuggets or the sweet, sweet tea! abomination!
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It only requires a $5000 grub stake to open a Chick-Fil-A franchise. You sort of live under the thumb of the company, but it's still one of the easier franchises to start up.
Oh, you also have to be the right kind of Christian or they wont approve you.
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yeah, and you can't be open on sunday, unless you're catering a church function. i'm not super fond of the double standard practices, but if i want sweet tea, it's them or hooters.
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hey, i know it's fast food, but i think chik-fil-a is really good, too. especially as far as fastfood is concerned. besides, i know where banna is coming from, sometimes you know it's not the fanciest shmanciest food ever, but you just really have a hankering for it, and when you think you've got it and you are already expecting it --well that is just plain wrong! oh great, you just made me realize one more thing tracy, ca doesn't have! my brother is a manager at a chik-fil-a in savannah, and almost everyone there is really nice, and his boss even offered to fly both my brothers out to california when we were having some domestic trouble. i like that they aren't open on sundays - i hate having to work on sunday. i liked when most people were off on sundays. *sigh*
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I wonder if they are cool with Mormons. there are quite a few in Utah. But as we keep saying, there are non Mormons in Utah. I hear the employee retention is higher for Chick Fil A also, because it's nice to know there is one day that you can't be called in. Sunday or no.
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ah, but pooka, some chick-fil-a's will call you in on sunday if they have a church function to cater. because then it's ok to work on sunday.
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Well the story gets funnier. As I said, I happened to be in Davenport, IA to pick up a new dog. I had planned this for a while and so decided to still go even when we were invited to a birthday party for a one-year old of some friends of ours. Steve went to the birthday party and all was well or so I thought.
Steve called me when he was home for lunch and informed me we have had a huge fight. This was news to me because while I'm whining about the Chick-Fil-A incident. I stopped being mad about it shortly after I posted here. Turns out, that his co-workers think I should be in trouble because I didn't go to the birthday party. And they knew I was upset at him about the missing food. So he is using all of the information they have and blowing it up to make it seem about 10 times worse than it is.
Why? Because he can't actually stand half of them, and is looking forward to transferring so he doesn't have to see any of them on a regular basis after the end of this month. However they have occasional social gatherings and decided to have a Christmas party and were after Steve to host it since we have a house of our own. So he's claiming that he's got to spend all of next weekend taking me out and doting on me (right... I doubt that is going to happen) but that is his excuse to get out of the party that they understand!
When he explained all these complicated plots and subplots at work I began I'm glad my work isn't nearly as complicated as far as social interaction goes!
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I thought there was a Chick-Fil-A in SE Wisconsin. I distinctly remember going to one once a while back, and I hadn't seen it since. I didn't realize it was in Racine, where I used to live.
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I know Big Mac are hideous, but every now and then I get the hankering for one. Not like it would ever have to be tough to get one. Except if I really wanted to wait for 99 cent monday. My husband thinks that's gross, but then he'll turn around and buy thos 5 quart tubs of that ice cream that staya in the shape shape even when melted. To each his own.
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Well Steve jokingly calls it "Design Creek" and hums a few bars of the Dawson's Creek theme music. It is very incestuous with many people having slept with multiple other people in the department. He often comes home with hysterical stories of who is fighting with whom and why!
But, yeah, my mom almost fried me one time for eating the last muffin. We called it muffingate for years afterwards. I cooked a whole two dozen muffins to make up but apparently that was nothing beside the utter unremediable depredation of eating the last muffin. Posts: 968 | Registered: Sep 2003
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Well she is 9 months old, and came with the name of Roxie, but she has no idea that that was supposed to be her name. She was being raised with two litter mates so the previous owner hadn't quite had enough individual time to spend with each one. So we re-named her Lucy because she is a silly redhead. She is starting to get used to it. In color she looks a lot like this dog http://www.phi-vestavia.com/camillepage.htm
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1) You could also visit me to get Chick-Fil-A.*
2) You were in Iowa and didn't tell me!?!?
3) Congratulations on the new dog.
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*(Okay, it's thirty miles from my house, but since there isn't much of anything closer I think of it as nearby.)
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I thought you were farther away than that. I didn't realize you were only 30 miles from Davenport, I thought it was another couple hours away towards Des Moines. I did think of you, but it was a whirlwind trip. Drove down, played with dogs for an hour, had Chickfila and then loaded up the dog and headed back. Plus there was the added snowstorm complication.
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No, no, the nearest Chick-fil-A is thirty miles. In Ames. Davenport is further, but I would have driven over to meet you for lunch or whatever.
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Ok dkw. If you are willing to drive that far, I promise I'll tell you next time I'm there!
Kneelunge I didn't realize it was you asking the question! I know you know what Jake and Ciara look like so the extra links were superfulous. Oh well.
This new dog also has Steve wrapped around her little paw. She is definitely kissing up more to him, maybe it is because she knows she needs to, but more likely because her breeder was a guy.
Dog genetics are interesting. She isn't her own grandma technically, but she was the product of an Aunt to nephew breeding, so I think she is her own cousin. The aunt is Jake's half sister, and the father is Harry P., so named because he has a lightning bolt on his ear.
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Wasn't expecting to see this bumped. She's an independent little thing and in the "dumb puppy" stage. "What you want me to come inside? I think I'll stand out here in the snow and pretend I can't get up the step." She definitely comes when Steve calls her better than when I call her.
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