Bigoted fast food eaters get come-up-ance.

[Elok]

Don't you have a smart phone? Restaurant review and finding apps are every where and it takes only a couple of minutes. Stop being stupid and pretending it is a hardship to find better food for a similar price.

Honestly, no, I don't, but most people do so that's moot. However, most people probably do not feel like digging through restaurant reviews from strangers at the end of a long day, especially not when they've got tired kids to placate and people with various different tastes to accommodate. I'm sure your local Persian-Australian fusion joint has lovely cheap koala shawarma, and it suits you great, but chain fast food serves a very real need, and CFA fills that need better than most. The fact that that need is not found in, or compatible with, your lifestyle is beside the point.

[Dinner]

Ok, that was creative enough to earn a like for your post. Well done.

WRT smart phones, I got a Samsung Galaxy S5 on black Friday for $1 with a two year contract and Verizon offers a pretty good deal of $60 a month for unlimited voice, text, and 2 GB of data. Best Buy even kicked in a $150 gift card with sign up. So there are great deals out there, my friend, just look them up. Lastly, the Yelp app for smartphones is free and pretty useful telling you what is nearby, what their star rating is, and how expensive they are all with one click. It really doesn't take long though you do have to watch out for dumb asses five staring junk like Chick Fil A.

[Elok]

You're all right, Dinner. I'd go drinking with you anytime, except you're on the other side of the country, I'm poor, and I'm a lightweight. Had one damn scotch at the office Christmas party before I told my coworker we were fattening her up to sell her liver as foie gras. Luckily everybody took it in stride.

[Patroklos]

Why does Oerdin think we give a **** about whatever closet sized strip mall resturaunts happen to be near his hipster pad?

Oerdin, drive fifty miles west on any interstate and stop at a random exit gas station stop off. Then tell us home much Pho, Iraq kabobs, and ceviche you find. You live in San Diego. We get it. Congratulations?

[Lorizael]

You're all right, Dinner. I'd go drinking with you anytime, except you're on the other side of the country, I'm poor, and I'm a lightweight. Had one damn scotch at the office Christmas party before I told my coworker we were fattening her up to sell her liver as foie gras. Luckily everybody took it in stride.

About 12 years ago, I worked at a Party City around Halloween time. I had a cute coworker who liked to mess around, because our job was boring as ****. Once, while bored, she covered her face in green glitter for some reason. I approached her and said, "From far away, you look diseased." I was not the least bit intoxicated. She did not take it well.

[Dinner]

Why does Oerdin think we give a **** about whatever closet sized strip mall resturaunts happen to be near his hipster pad?

Oerdin, drive fifty miles west on any interstate and stop at a random exit gas station stop off. Then tell us home much Pho, Iraq kabobs, and ceviche you find. You live in San Diego. We get it. Congratulations?

Actually, right now I live in the ass Crack of America due to my work putting me in charge of a big project out in the Imperial Valley. I still have my place in San Diego and I rent out two of my room but except on weekends the master bedroom and my study stay empty. My work is renting me a place out here in BFE to stay Monday through Friday so I have gotten a lot of use out of those restaurant apps. Hell, I have to travel a lot for my work even in the best of times.

That is one of the reasons they pay me so much.

[Patroklos]

I sympathize. I almost got shafted into living in El Centro last year.

[Dinner]

On a different note I had fun playing in the snow in the mountains yesterday and the hot spiced apple cider was good though the local wine was only so so.

[Dinner]

I sympathize. I almost got shafted into living in El Centro last year.

It is the nightmare in which I am living. Still, I am trying to make the best of it. It was a good promotion but the main reason I got it was because none of the other project managers wanted to move out there due to kids being in school and because the place generally sucks.

[Elok]

About 12 years ago, I worked at a Party City around Halloween time. I had a cute coworker who liked to mess around, because our job was boring as ****. Once, while bored, she covered her face in green glitter for some reason. I approached her and said, "From far away, you look diseased." I was not the least bit intoxicated. She did not take it well.

See, this coworker is the recognized target of most office teasing, so everybody fell in with it. She accepts it with good grace and everything. My teasing wasn't rude, just really frickin' weird. Especially when I started putting lots of thought into it: the booze would make her liver nice and big, she was a vegetarian so it was "organic," did her college let her out enough to qualify as "free range," etc.

Re: smartphones, it's not that I can't afford one (though possibly I can't, IDK), it's that I don't want one. I know there are any number of useful apps, but my wife and I are sedentary creatures who enjoy stillness, silence and stability. Carrying a portal to endless stimulation around with you tends to remove all three. Addictive as hell, too; I see what those things do to my students. I stay off Poly for the fasts for a similar reason. Tried to stay off Facebook too for the Nativity Fast, but it turns out that, if you go more than two days without accessing FB, it sends you increasingly detailed automated e-mails about all the awesome FB crap you're missing out on. They get clingy, too: "You haven't been on FB in a while. Don't you love us anymore? Haven't we been good to you? WHERE DID WE GO WRONG, LOVER?"

Anyway, thanks, Dinner, but I'm perfectly happy with just the dinky prepaid phone we keep for emergencies (which never materialize, so it's got something like a year of prepaid minutes on it now from all the topoffs).

[Berzerker]

we lived in Poway and Solano Beach over looking the ocean

[Dinner]

Beautiful area. I grew up in Scripps Ranch right next to Poway.

[Imran Siddiqui]

How are they not crappy? I have dozens of better, more tasty, and equally priced options so why have yet another over salted, frozen, the deep fried processed chicken... Thing?

Oh God

I should have realized that would have a led to a "look at how pretentious and hipster my artisinal food choices that it is, btw, soooo much cheaper"

[Dinner]

No, it was more Chick Fil A sucks and there are much better options at a similar price. Nice attempt at spin though.

[Elok]

Why is "comeuppance" hyphenated, anyway? I keep trying to read it as "come up pants," which ironically sounds vaguely anti-gay.