Alex Eckelberry wrote: > Now, for an In-And-Out burger, I could understand. But Sonic...?
Try their "Oceanwater". It's worth the wait. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jon Kibler > Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 3:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [funsec] OT: New England Lemmings and The Herd Mentality > > I find myself on vacation just outside of Peabody, MA. While trying to > locate the hotel, noticed that the entire right shoulder of the road for > almost a half mile before the hotel was a solid line of cars. They even > had cops directing traffic. Asking at the registration desk what was up > with the line, was told that the line was for the new Sonic Drive-In > (http://www.sonicdrivein.com/) that had opened last Wednesday 2 blocks > further up US-1! > > I then had to ask what was the big deal, were they giving away free food > or something? It turns out that this is the first Sonic in New England. > People have been coming from as far away as Maine, Vermont, Rhodes > Island, Connecticut, and New York just to try out the latest junk food > chain! Some have driven 4 or more hours just to sit in line to eat a > hamburger in their car. Those arriving "late" > have been finding the restaurant out of food and closing early. In > addition to the line down US-1, I also found that there is a back > entrance that has a line that stretches further than one can see. > Thinking about it, this has to make Sonic one of the highest carbon > footprint foods in the world!! > > Coming from an area that is saturated with Sonics, I cannot believe that > anyone would wait in line -- and apparently do so for hours -- for Sonic > Drive-In food. > IMHO, the food at just about every other burger and shake joint is > better. The only novelty is that it is like a 50s drive-in where you are > waited on by servers in roller skates and you have to eat in your car or > take it home (no inside dining). > > Geeze, and all these years I had thought that lemmings were herbivores. > :-) > > Jon ================================================== Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. -- Rob +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | _ | | ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) | | - against HTML email X | | / \ | | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
