Free Grand Slams for Everyone

OK, I've officially crossed over to the dark side. And this is only blog #2. How can it be? The madness?

One of my guilty pleasures in life is I LOVE Denny's. Notice the capitalization of the word love. Means I really love it a lot. I may be a blog rookie, but I learned that one a while back. But Ummm...

I'm not sure when I grew the passion for Denny's. but I trust it came at an early age, like those babies in the E-Trade commercials (who totally crack me up by the way - "shankopotomus"). There's just something about a restaurant with the multitude of offerings, open 24/7 and its cheap but reasonably decent. Since nobody reads this, there should be no food snobs out there, but keep in mind, I also LOVE KFC, so saying decent is clearly subjective. I'll save that passion for another time. I can only take so much excitement in the morning.

I'll accept the cleanliness issues, the "unique" clientele, the even more "unique" employees, and the green coffee for a Grand Slam any day. So lo and behold, guess what I found yesterday and had to check it out. Yup, the Denny's frequent customer card. Kind of like those cards you get at the grocery store, or the casinos in Vegas, Denny's has a patronage card. And I may win free Grand Slams for a year! Is it Christmas again already? Where do I sign up? Here is the link so you too can sign up. Tell 'em I sent ya, and I'm sure they'll cut you a deal.

http://dennys.promo.eprize.com/freegrandslam/

Speaking of Denny's, its seems to be one of those restaurants which has that goofy arcade crane game, where a whack of stuffed animals sit in a glass box, and you manouvre the crane to pull one out. I swear those animals have extra weight in them, or they have used some of the pancake butter to grease the crane arms or something, since I can never pull the animals out. I tried for a good half hour to pull out a Winnie the Pooh from one recently. No dice. Its more the challenge of the game than the quality of the stuffed animals. I'm sure you could buy one at Wal-Mart for as much as you pay into the arcade machine.

Can you imagine the pitch from the sales guy for those arcade games? "How about we put in a money-making juggernaut, where nobody ever wins, and you watch full-grown adults go postal trying to pull out something they would not even dangle from their rear view mirror. They'll be so peeved, they won't even notice you've made them wait 15 minutes despite there being ample available free tables. Would that be something you'd be interested in?"

Now if they could get Denny's into Wal-Mart locations, well they'll be needing a crane to get me out of there, although I'm sure the crane will suck and I'll fall back into the store so I can buy more rolled back pricing stuff whilst digesting my Moons over My Hammy. I'm sure I won't be the only one either.

OK, time to be quiet again.