Arby's Friday, June 13, 2008 [ banter 0 ]

There used to be an Arby's downtown on 6th ave and w3rd. It was the only one in Manhattan. Fresh off the plains of Texas, and usually stricken with poverty as most kids are when they first move to the city, I took regular trips and would often indulge in their 5 for $5 deal --- 5 roast beef sandwiches for $5. When they shut it down years and years ago, a small peice of me died and I only got to experience the Big Montana on the rare occassion I left New York.

Today I made a huge discovery: Arby's has returned! I don't know why it never occured to me to check the Store Locator on the official website, but I did it this morning during a slow moment at work and BEHOLD --- there's one in food court at Queens Mall! REJOICE! REJOICE! I took the R out to Queens afterwork and made a beeling for the mall. I was so happy, it was almost spiritual --- hell, it was a damn near trantric experience. I could feel the wind flying past me as I ran, arms outstretched and tears of joy streaming down my face, towards the big neon FOOD COURT sign. When I got there I saw they were having a combo deal and I just got STUPID. Did you know $11 buys you a JUMBO roast beef combo with large curly fries and a drink, and FOUR junior roast beef sandwiches? Just an FYI.

The happiness continued to swell. I wandered through the mall (think that counts as cardio?) and found the EXACT pair of Yoshi shoes I've been wanting in brown. Now I've got them in black, white, and cognac. I love ALDO. Cute shoes are important, and I never seem to find what I'm looking for, so this is exciting.

I called Nick from the food court to share my excitement and it totally got trumped by his own big news. Looks likely that he'll be climbing up out of Front Desk Pee-On status to the fabulous ranks of High Class Servant (i.e. Concierge) at his hotel, which is very cool and might even mean we start working the same type of schedule. Will be pretty cool if we both wind up doing the same kind of work, it'll make bitching about our days so much more fun.

Happy day. Earlier at work all the computers, phones, and elevators stopped working for awhile. I wonder if if had anything to do with it being Friday the 13th.

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