Monday, June 12, 2006

 

I've got something you don't got!

Years ago when i was still in college and making my weekly trek to the Krystal on Spring St. one of my regular companions was my fraternity brother, Adam, who also shared a love of all things small, square and steamy. As was more or less tradition at the time we'd always go late at night. When you have 2 young college guys at a Krystal late at night, strange ideas are bound to happen.
If you've been going to Krystal for a while you probably have memories of a large plaque hanging on the wall near the registers. The Krystal Kreed was hung on the wall of every Krystal, for all to see the ideals the founders had when they started the chain back in 1932. It was beautiful and awe inspiring. And Adam and I decided we simply had to have it.
Our fascination with the Krystal Kreed may have been linked to our fraternity, ATO's, Creed. Koincidentally, ATO's Creed was written in Macon, GA by the founder of the National Fraternity, while he was rector at a local church and his son was the first initiate of my chapter at Mercer. The church that Otis Allen Glazebrook was rector at, Christ Episcopal Church koincidentally, is just up the road from the Krystal on Spring St. Obviously, they didn't have Krystal when he was here in 1880, but boy I bet he wishes they did!
Adam and I spent many an evening plotting and planning over a late night Krystal snack about how to get our hands on the Kreed.
Option #1 was the simple 'grab and run.' It was hanging on the wall close enough to the door, we figured we would be fast enough to get away with it. We'd just have to make sure not to eat first.
Option #2 was outright bribery. As starving college students, I don't know how much we could have scraped together to offer for it, especially since we were usually spending whatever we scraped together on Krystals.
Option #3 was to simply purchase it. If the store wouldn't sell it, maybe they could tell us where to buy our own. For basically the same reasons as #2, this option simply wouldn't work. Besides, how much fun would that be?
So after many Thursday nights staring longingly at the Kreed and even having memorized the Kreed at one point, the dream faded. We could always have the Kreed in our hearts, but we would never have it hung on the wall.
Fast forward 15 years or so to 2006 and Krystal has become a focus in my life (stop laughing!). I had fond memories of my late nights at Krystal with Adam and Brian, and started wondering again about the Kreed. I noticed the store on Vineville didn't have it posted. I just figured maybe they didn't have one, or it was hung somewhere else. (Or perhaps Adam had gotten it!) But then as I went to other Krystals, I noticed none of them had the Kreed hung on the wall. I wondered if perhaps the Kreed no longer mattered to Krystal. But it's clearly displayed on their web page. So I was simply baffled. (That's not so uncommon, as I am often baffled.)
Around the time I started this blog, I started to collect Krystal bumper stickers and found I was missing one. I have a friend who watches E-Bay constantly, and he e-mailed me to let me know they popped up on Ebay every so often and he'd snag me one when he saw it. (The Steamy Buns one is due to Thomas).
I hadn't been on E-Bay in probably 4 or 5 years, so I decided to head back over there and check it out. It took a while to get a good accurate E-Bay search that wasn't returning porn star movie posters, or those smelly urinal cakes. But then, as if by magic (or Koincidence?) there it was.
Yes, my dearest friends, I finally have my own copy of the Krystal Kreed. When Kenny was down for my induction I asked him about it. He said he wasn't 100% sure why they didn't put up the plaques anymore, but that stores may still have them hanging. When I told him I had located one for sale we was partly surprised, partly amused, and partly excited. He figured one of their stores was getting renovated or knocked down and someone stepped in and grabbed the Kreed.
I don't care HOW it got to me, I am just glad it did. Sadly, there's more to this story. I'm not going to tell you how much I paid for it, but I will tell you it took 93 days, a claim filed on E-Bay, and a threat of legal action to finally get this thing delivered. But it is mine now and NO ONE will take it away from me. If yo'd like a closer look at it, I might be willing to allow that. But wash your hands first!
Oh, and I know Adam's been to this blog, so if you're reading this let me assure you there's no way we could have grabbed this sucker and run. It weighs a ton and was more or less bolted to the wall. If you want a Krystal Kreed key ring, though, Adam, I have one for ya!
PS Did I mention the eight feet of bubble wrap it came in? The BIG bubbles kind? And it's ALL MINE!
Krystal Lovers like hot buns.

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# posted by JasonJ1052 @ 5:13 PM
Comments:
"I've got something you don't got" Sheeeesh! What grammer?! Whatever it is "you got" I don't want. :) Just picking at you.

Anyway, if Adam doesn't post/reply to this post, he will never be an active participant to your blog. That will be a shame.

Great guns on obtaining the Krystal Kreed! Good on you.

What is your next post? It IS THURSDAY! :) Can't wait.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 5:57 PM
 
"In the name of the hundred-acre wood...I capture you!!"
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8:33 PM
 




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