vikingshadow
09-16-2008, 04:26 PM
Well, for the past 5 months, construction of one of these "restaraunts" has been underway DIRECTLY behind my house. I mean, like there's my back yard, the alley and then the parking lot of the place. You can see the building from every window in the back of my house. Their parking lot lights FLOOD my backyard all night long, and lucky for me, there's been a semi truck trailor sitting back there the entire weekend with it's refrigeration unit running off and on at all hours.
Lovely.
Well, yesterday they finally opened. Now, instead of a nice, peaceful backyard experience, I have a "living under the freeway" sort of thing going back there. Seriously, traffic all the time. Apparently traffic was so heavy at noon today that people were parking across the highway (in other parking lots) to eat there today, the highway was blocked because of the drive thru crowd - honking, yelling, cussing - the works (good thing school was happening or my kids would have gotten a new lesson in language I'd just as soon they didn't have.)
I bet the value of my house just dropped 20,000.00 in one day because of this. I better not start getting Carl's Jr. trash all over my yard!
Anyway, we walked over there for supper tonight just to try it out as we've never eaten at a Carl's Jr before. I will have to say it's pretty nice not to have to get in the car, drive somewhere, find a place to park then stand in line forever. We just went out the back gate and across the parking lot - this would have been great back in my college days, but not really now.
However, to end this on a good note, it's probably the best fast food cheeseburger I've ever had! I got the Six Dollar Western Burger combo. HUGE hamburger and was perfectly cooked. We'll just have to see what this will bring to my living situation!
Lovely.
Well, yesterday they finally opened. Now, instead of a nice, peaceful backyard experience, I have a "living under the freeway" sort of thing going back there. Seriously, traffic all the time. Apparently traffic was so heavy at noon today that people were parking across the highway (in other parking lots) to eat there today, the highway was blocked because of the drive thru crowd - honking, yelling, cussing - the works (good thing school was happening or my kids would have gotten a new lesson in language I'd just as soon they didn't have.)
I bet the value of my house just dropped 20,000.00 in one day because of this. I better not start getting Carl's Jr. trash all over my yard!
Anyway, we walked over there for supper tonight just to try it out as we've never eaten at a Carl's Jr before. I will have to say it's pretty nice not to have to get in the car, drive somewhere, find a place to park then stand in line forever. We just went out the back gate and across the parking lot - this would have been great back in my college days, but not really now.
However, to end this on a good note, it's probably the best fast food cheeseburger I've ever had! I got the Six Dollar Western Burger combo. HUGE hamburger and was perfectly cooked. We'll just have to see what this will bring to my living situation!