I know Memorial Day is set aside for us to honor the troops. I totally respect that even though I value the day more because it gives me a nice four-day week. I just have one question: What does denying people breakfast have to do with the troops?
My wife worked today so I promised my daughter I would take her out to our favorite local breakfast plate. We haven’t had a chance to do this on a Saturday because of her soccer schedule so I was looking forward to it.
I knew something was wrong the second I saw the empty parking lot. No way. They couldn’t be closed. Honoring the troops is nice, but no breakfast?
No worries, I thought. We live in a small town so I would go to one of the other local joints. No dice two times in a row. At this point, I was pissed. I headed across town – fighting traffic from the Memorial Day parade which had just ended – to get to Perkins.
I have nothing against Perkins, but the local places are cheaper and don’t have long lines like a chain. We had to wait 15 or so minutes to get seated, then paid close to twice what our bill would have been at our favorite spot.
I know this sounds pretty petty. I really don’t care that much; it just surprised the hell out of me. And now I’m even more mad because I have remembered a couple of other local joints which might have been open.
I’ll just use that to plan for next year.
Any excuse to have the day off right? I’m all for honoring the troops and being respectful of peoples’ religions, etc but I felt much the same way as this on Easter–I live in a large metro area. Not everyone here is Christian but almost everything was closed! What’s that about?