College Stoodents Iz Stoopid

Are you familiar with Chick-fil-A resturants? Their advertising features cows with very bad spelling and vocabulary. We are big fans of Chick-fil-A ans the only one near us is across town in the snooty area where the fancy Mom's gow ith their preschool children and sit round and talk about holidays spent in the Bahamas. So, I don't go over there very often. Since we've lived in our little town, every tiime they bread ground for a new business, house or parking lot, we all say our prayers that it will be a Chick-fil-A. We hadn't had much luck until one day there tore down a perfectly good car wash about two miles up the street and then they hung a glorious sign up saying, "Future home of a new Chick-fil-A." Yeeee-ha!

So, they've been building it and we've been watching them build it. And, tomorrow, January 10th is THE BIG DAY. Grand opening. We won't go near the place for at least a week until the big ta-do tames a bit. Chick-fil-A has a promotion when a new store opens. First 100 people in line get a Free Combo once a week for a YEAR. That is about a $275.00 value. I figured people would line up about 4:00 am. Wrong.

This is the scene at noon today. 36 hours before Grand Opening.
At least 50 tents set up all around the new resturant and in the new landscaping. Ice chests and sleeping bags strewn about. This is on the corner that leads into campus at the UA. School doesn't start until Monday, so I guess they are looking for some free entertainemnt and some free food.
They were training inside and I saw them come out with giant trays of free food for all the people waiting, plus they had giant cofffee makers set up for them. What a great company to take care of their customers! But, I would not be out in the 25 degree weather in a tent in a parking lot for free food. And, I, my friend, am the Queen of Free.