Whataburger . . .always makes me think of my grandparents in Tyler. That was our special treat when we visited them in the 70's. Nothing much in Tyler then - but boy howdy has it grown.

Back in the college days, the White Castle near campus was open all night and was THE place to go after fraternity parties. The homeless people also hung out there all night. It was just insane in there every weekend night. The thought of White Castle now makes me nauseous...

Speaking of White Castle: my parents were in a small town where that was THE only fast food restaurant, and were choking down a burger when they overheard the waitress yell over the phone, "Where's my lunch shift help? You don't think I'm going to eat here, do you?!" They left.

My friend's psycho ex-husband broke his leg trying to kick her dog when she was leaving him, ending up in a cast almost to his groin. Her brother was there, and the ex told everyone that her brother broke his leg (wuss!). The ex was at Wendy's when her brother came in, and her brother decided to be a man and say something like, "We both know I didn't break your leg, but I am sorry that you're laid up like that." The psycho ex started screaming, "He broke my leg! He broke my leg!" until another customer said, "Shut up or I'll break your other one!"

It became one of my favorite "divorce wars stories"!

Actually it's a Whataburger, Fries and a drink. Cheese costs extra.

Don't you friggin' love Karma? :p

Someone asked me to order something that didn't exist on the menu and I believed him, and ended up looking like an idiot while he was laughing. :rolleyes:

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Odd but funny.

Absolutely!

BTW, for anyone who knows anything about indoor soccer, compare the Whataburger logo to the old Wichita Wings logo.

I worked at Chick-fil-a for two years, so I have so many stories to tell. Let's see...an old man was trying to cough up both of his lungs in the drive-thru (sounded disgusting on the speaker in the kitchen); an old lady (who was way too feeble to be driving) rear-ended this guy at the window, who was trying his hardest not to jump out of his car and attack her; and a lady came in and screamed at us because we only gave her one (HUGE) packet of salad dressing.

Oh, and the best of all. This lady (who had to weigh about 600 pounds, and her four kids looked just as heavy as she did), almost cussed me out in the drive-thru because I could not put whipped cream on her ice cream. I had two managers tell her that the whipped cream was only for the milkshakes, and that just made her even more angry. She eventually called the owner and yelled at him about it, and he thought she was just as crazy. :rolleyes: People are stupid sometimes...

Hmm...nothing too interesting....I guess I could say it was the day before my friends and I were splitting up to leave for college. We wanted to have one last go before completely saying goodbye to childhood, so we all piled into 3 cars, drove to a McDonald's with a HUGE playplace and no height limit and just went at it. Soon, we were going so wild that these little kids ran over and challenged us to a game of tag. Man, we chased each other like squirrels on crack. We had all these parents looking at us, wondering who were these grown-looking people playing with their kids! But the crowd kept cheering us on and we played for like an hour before we all just collapsed from laughing so hard. It was quite possibly the most fun a group of near 18-year-olds ever had. :o :D

Don't close your eyes
 

I had been sick with a horrible stomach virus and just started to move around the house when my dughter and her friend begged me to take them to McDonalds. I tried to say no, but they had been ignored all day and I felt guilty. I loaded them up in my volvo station wagon and went to McDonalds. After placing the orders in the drive through, I thought I would just close my eyes for a second and rest my head on the back of the seat. The next thing I remember was a gentle tap...I opened my eyes and realized had rolled forward and tapped the car in front of me. A wild eyed, tank topped, spandexed, crazy, demented woman got out and started screaming that she was going to rip my hair out and *%#@ smear me all over the parking lot. "Don't you know this is a @#$#$% rental car??" I was a little confused about all of this and instead of simply locking my door, I opened my car door and stood up with no energy for any expression; just concerned about who would call 911 and clean up my body parts. The only words I could get out in her string of obscenities was "Lady, I'm sorry. I didn't do it on purpose." The little girls in the back were having a great time watching all of this. A man got out of her passenger seat to calm her down, and explained that there was no scratch or anything. To this day when someone mentions the drive through at McDonalds, eyeballs roll at my house.

Haha, I am from Tyler. Grandparents moved there in the early 70's when grandad founded the Neurosurgery Institute at ETMC.

Shoot me a PM, wouldn't surprise me if they knew each other or something.

Back when I was about 10 years old, I had an embarassment at the Jack-in-a-Box burger place by my house. My grandparents had been visiting us one afternoon and my whole family had gone out together to enjoy the afternoon. Afterwards, my parents headed home while my sister and I rode with our grandparents. Since we were a little hungry, we stopped at JitB to pick up some burgers for everyone.

When we got there, we found out that they were having a 25 cent hamburger promotion. My grandparents got excited and decided to order 24 hamburgers, four for each of us. My sister and I thought that seemed like too many; but grandma assured us that we could freeze any leftover burgers. I don't know...I guess that's a depression era mentality for ya.

Of course, seeing there were only four of us standing there, the guy behind the counter gave us a funny look. What really embarassed me was hearing the cook in the back counting, "2....4....6....8...10...12....12! <sigh> We need 12 more!!" :o

We ended up carrying out some five bags of hamburgers.


.....Kelly :)