Wednesday, October 24, 2007

A few of my friends and I were reminiscing the other day about the places we used to go for lunch during high school. There was a pizza place made famous by the titular CJ Riders. McDonalds, where we used to all use the school newspaper's buy one get one free coupon for Big Macs every day for two weeks following the paper's monthly release (it didn't hurt that we were in the Journalism class and could swipe extra copies of the paper as needed). A friend who wasn’t in Journalism had a BOGO method that was very nearly the equivalent of the coupon: he would buy a Quarter Pounder with Cheese every day, eat thru 75% of it, then bring it back to the counter and said it wasn't cooked enough, "Are you trying to kill me!?!" He would get a second burger free every time.

Taco Viva was great for liquid lunches; they would actually sell us a pitcher of beer to have with our food. One of my friends would distribute pairs of his dad’s used construction worker gloves for us to wear before we went in and then each of us would conspicuously remove them at the counter while placing our orders. Now, I know the drinking age at the time was 18 not 21, but come on, we were 15 and 16 years old and were wearing school uniforms!

There was this other great place that sold hot dogs, chili dogs and the like. It’s long gone now. It was a gutted out caboose from an old train converted into a snack shack. Once in a while we would go there. None of us could remember the name of it though. We thought and thought. No one could remember the name. Someone said they'd Google it when they got back home and come up with the name then tell us all later. Turned out he couldn't find it on Google. So it goes.

A few days ago, while I was eating a hot dog, it hit me: 'Trolley Dog', that was the name.
I called one of my friends and told him. “Yea,” He said all excited, “Trolley Dog, that's it!" He asked how I came up with it. I said simply, "With my brain."

Well, he must have told the other guys that I finally came up with the name of old Trolley Dog because a few minutes ago one of my friends called me and asked, "Hey, they said that you came up with Trolley Dog using My Brain, but I can't seem to find it, is it My Brain dot com or dot org or what?!?!"

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