One of the things that I like about Wendy’s is that at the end of the year the restaurants offer the customers the chance to buy a little key tag for $1.00 that gives the customer the right to free junior frosties for the entire next calendar year. The proceeds go to charity. I go to Wendy’s often enough to actually get a lot of free frosties, so it is a good deal for me! Yay for free ice cream!
They should tell you first
One of my pet peeves is when you go into a fast food restaurant and place an order and pay for the order and then when you get the food it is missing part of the order. When you find out that it is missing (if you are lucky you are still there) and bring it to their attention, they reply “oh, we’re all out of that!” Well, don’t you think you should tell me that before I walk or drive away and offer me a refund or an alternative? This has happened at least once in every fast food restaurant chain I’ve visited, so I can’t point my finger and yell at one particular chain. Just plain old bad customer service. I think that the next time it happens to me I’m going to go online and complain to the company directly.
Not too bad
Last night we were all feeling too lazy to cook, so we decided to cook up the DiGiorno’s frozen pizza we have had in the freezer for a couple of weeks. It was the rising crust three meat pizza. I had my doubts about whether or not I would like it, but I have to tell you that it was really very good. So good in fact that I’ve put it on the shopping list to buy more. And chances are pretty good that we’ll be eating that pizza a lot more in the future instead of going to the pizza restaurant that costs double the amount that the frozen pizza cost!
I’ve tried their thin crispy crust pizza and didn’t like it at all, so I’m really glad I like their rising crust pizza! It’s nice to know I can have a few of them in the freezer for future times we don’t feel like cooking anything complicated!
Eating out tonight
Tonight we’re going to eat out – one of my favorite chain restaurants – Applebee’s. A lot of people look down their noses at Applebee’s , but I really like their barbeque riblets a lot. In fact, when I go to Applebee’s, if they tell me they are sold out of their riblets, I don’t order something else, I leave the restaurant and go eat somewhere else! So, I look forward to the chance to eat there when I can! We’re going to try to get there as close to 5pm as possible, to beat the big dinner crowd.
Labor Day
One of my least favorite holidays is the Labor Day weekend. When I was a child I disliked it because that meant summer vacation was over and we had to go back to school. I did not like school. I did not like having to haul lots of the books from class to class and I hated having to do homework. I don’t think that I would have hated it quite so much if the teachers had let us keep a set of books home so that we would not have to lug heavy backpacks back and forth.
This Labor Day weekend, though, should be a good weekend because I have been invited to and a barbecue party at Tyler’s beach house. I understand that Tyler and Amy put on a great barbecue so I am looking forward to having a good time. Although I am saddened by the end of summer at least my days of carrying the backpacks to school are finished.