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  • #1

    I'm sorry we offer the free breakfast, I must be stupid (quickie)

    No matter how long I live, I will never be a morning person. Maybe it was that, maybe i forgot to remove the "Abuse Me, I Like It" sign from around my neck, but this was an odd way to start the morning.

    As soon as i clocked in this morning, before i could drink enough coffee to fortify myself for the day ahead, an elderly lady walks up to the desk:

    Lady: "Excuse me. Why do y'all have a breakfast when there's a Denny's not more than ten steps away?"
    Me: ...
    Lady: "Yeah, I thought so."

    Huh? Why? I suppose i understand, yeah, maybe someone would want to answer that question... And maybe i was a bit slow with the answer "Because we're supposed to have one.. and its free" but what is with my stunned silence proving her right?

    Wierd.

    Actually, now that i think about it, i probably had a catbutt face the entire time..
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  • #2
    I have become a not-morning person here lately and this story just made my brain freeze. I mean, it stopped for a few minutes to reboot!
    "I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance!" from Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead

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    • #3
      What a stupid old bitch.
      "Always stand near the door." -- Doctor Who

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      • #4
        If the Denny's is anything like the one in Fort Collins, CO I ate at on vacation, she should be happy for the hotel's breakfast and belly right up.

        We walked into that restaurant at 6:30 and it was almost 9 at night when we left. They were uber-understaffed I guess and we were waited on by somebody who I think was a manager. He was friendly and very apologetic for the waits, but he seemed to not have any clue about taking orders and serving food.

        There was a table with three kids and their parents near out table. They had arrived at Denny's before we did and were still waiting for their food after we finally got ours.
        Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

        "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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        • #5
          "Because Denny's is where you go to take out your rage on your own body and we offer things like, you know, fruits and cereal and healthier things?"

          Hell, when I was in Nashville last year for a wrestling show, we were within walking distance of a Waffle House, a Cracker Barrel, a generic hamburger stand, a Chinese restaurant, etc., and my sister still sent me down every morning to get her a bagel with cream cheese from the hotel breakfast.
          "Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."

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          • #6
            "Hotel Policy Ma'am, we must include breakfast."

            I love blaming it on Policy.
            Ridiculous 2009 Predictions: Evil Queen will beat Martha Stewart to death with a muffin pan. All hail Evil Queen! (Some things don't need elaboration.....) -- Jester

            Ridiculous 2010 Predictions: Evil Queen, after escaping prison for last years prediction, goes out and waffle irons Rachel Ray to death. -- SG15Z

            Ridiculous 2011 Prediction: Evil Queen will beat Gordon Ramsay over the head with a cast-iron skillet. -- FireHeart

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            • #7
              Okay, now that my brain has rebooted...

              Maybe she thought that your breakfast wasn't free. Or, if she knew it was free, maybe she thought that you offer breakfast for "free" but hide the cost of it in the cost of the room and she had caught you and your company's silly shennanigans?

              She'll come back later and ask that she gets a discount because she chose to eat at Denny's instead!

              but still....
              "I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance!" from Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead

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              • #8
                Quoth MystyGlyttyr View Post
                Hell, when I was in Nashville last year for a wrestling show, we were within walking distance of a Waffle House, a Cracker Barrel, a generic hamburger stand, a Chinese restaurant, etc., and my sister still sent me down every morning to get her a bagel with cream cheese from the hotel breakfast.
                B-but...Cracker Barrel...bacon....eggs....pancakes....*sigh* (misses the joy of fluffy syurpy Cracker Barrel buttermilk pancakes)
                "Even arms dealers need groceries." ~ Ziva David, NCIS

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                Abby: "Dance?" ~ NCIS

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                • #9
                  Quoth AdminAssistant View Post
                  B-but...Cracker Barrel...bacon....eggs....pancakes....*sigh* (misses the joy of fluffy syurpy Cracker Barrel buttermilk pancakes)
                  You had to remind me! The closest cracker barrel to me is waaaaaay on the other side of the city! That's a two hour ride!
                  Ridiculous 2009 Predictions: Evil Queen will beat Martha Stewart to death with a muffin pan. All hail Evil Queen! (Some things don't need elaboration.....) -- Jester

                  Ridiculous 2010 Predictions: Evil Queen, after escaping prison for last years prediction, goes out and waffle irons Rachel Ray to death. -- SG15Z

                  Ridiculous 2011 Prediction: Evil Queen will beat Gordon Ramsay over the head with a cast-iron skillet. -- FireHeart

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Evil Queen View Post
                    You had to remind me! The closest cracker barrel to me is waaaaaay on the other side of the city! That's a two hour ride!
                    Okay, now YOU had to remind ME! Grr! My closest Cracker Barrel is an hour and a half off exit 44 and they stay PACKED! Word on the grapevine is we're getting one here in town, but Mum doesn't believe it because it's not on the maps (neither was the one they suddenly put in in Kimball, and she conceded the point).

                    Mmmm, Mama's french toast and grits....dammit. I'm hungry and all's I got is ramen and salad fixings.
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                    Yeah, you see that right. Pink. Harness.

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                    • #11
                      I must be the lucky one then - I just moved in April and a Cracker Barrell is about one block from me. One day, I'll walk there for breakfast and walk that tasty but filling food off! I LOVE it!
                      "I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance!" from Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead

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                      • #12
                        I was just never that impressed with Cracker Barrel...it's the exact same food we grew up with so I've just always sort of felt like "Eh, I can get this at home for cheaper and it tastes better."

                        Yet, of course, all my wrestler buddies just love it. Maybe it's a city-folk thing.
                        "Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."

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                        • #13
                          Cracker Barrel's food is pretty good. I think my view on them is sullied by the fact that they're half restaurant and half gift shop. And I knew someone in college that used to work at one and pretty much all she talked about was how it was SOOO COOL to work there! I mean EVERYONE was SOOOO COOL! and she could eat for free. And the people that worked there were just the coolest!

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                          • #14
                            Quoth MystyGlyttyr View Post
                            Maybe it's a city-folk thing.
                            Country-folk thing too. Sometimes you don't feel like spending all day making that roast beef just right. Pounding up the perfectly lumpy mashed potatoes from scratch and having to get covered in chiggers just for a slice of blackberry cobbler.

                            Been there. Done all that (and more).

                            Anyways, back to breakfast.
                            Ridiculous 2009 Predictions: Evil Queen will beat Martha Stewart to death with a muffin pan. All hail Evil Queen! (Some things don't need elaboration.....) -- Jester

                            Ridiculous 2010 Predictions: Evil Queen, after escaping prison for last years prediction, goes out and waffle irons Rachel Ray to death. -- SG15Z

                            Ridiculous 2011 Prediction: Evil Queen will beat Gordon Ramsay over the head with a cast-iron skillet. -- FireHeart

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                            • #15
                              when we were in DC 2 weeks ago the hotel charged for their breakfast "buffet". we usually went out for breakfast but we ended up coughing up the $12 per person on the day we left so we wouldn't have to hunt down food with our luggage in tow. it was your basic continental breakfast, very disappointing, and defiantly not worth 12 dollars a person. i mean, i wasn't expecting much, but ive had better breakfasts for free at cheaper hotels. we didnt really have any complaints about the hotel other than that and that for some reason half of the building's A/C units didnt seem to work.

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