Say it aint so, Joe!!!

Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. -Star Wars As I said in my last few posts, I have been feeling a bit "off" for the past few weeks. Something wasn't right and I couldn't figure it out. Slowly it started to get clearer. I hadn't had Krystals in a long time. Today's post was going to be about my trip last Thursday to get some. It was a good trip and the Krystals were great. But apparently that wasn't the great disturbance in the force I'd been feeling. This afternoon in an email from Jarrett's mother, I got this extremely disturbing news: Jason! I read in Ed Grisamore's article in today's Macon Telegraph that YOUR Krystal on Vineville Ave. is CLOSING this Sunday! Say it isn't so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Jackie After I picked myself back up off the floor I ran to Ed's website and went through the back door to the Macon Telegraph's website. (I stopped reading the Telegraph online a month or two ago when they started requiring you to register to read their fish wrapper.)No more think tank at the Krystal It's True! It's all true!!The people they talk about are at Krystal ALL the time in the mornings. I often thought of trying to get them all in the Hall of Fame. Let's face it, they've been to Krystal WAY more than I have. There's lots of other "fixtures" there that will certainly be missed. Chef. Sonja. Vanessa. Keary. Calvin.And of course there's Bernida In another of those Kioncidences of my life, last Tuesday was my official 1 year anniversary of my move to Wilmington. It's sad how things have changed in a year. I cannot imagine my 4-10 Krystals a week loss was enough to put them out of business. I can only imagine it's the neighborhood. The store's been robbed a few times and had to cut their hours back. I am heart broken. I am a little angry. I am very worried. I am mostly sad. As soon as I got the email, I immediately started making plans. I leave early tomorrow morning for a mad dash to Macon. I'll return late Sunday. I am not self centered enough to think that I can single handedly keep them from closing, even if I did chain myself to the grill, or lay down in the drive through. One of the main reasons for my trips to Macon is now going away. Over the years I have lost friends or they have moved away, but Krystal was always there. WAS. I know there's still the old standby on Spring Street, and another dozen or so scattered around. But this one is MY Krystal. MINE!! I am angry. I do not know what will happen with my KLHOF stuff. That's part of why I am going. I have put in a call to Kenny at KHQ but this late ona Friday I doubt he'll get the message in time. My plan is, if they don't already know what to do with my plaque is to take it myself until I can find a new home for it. Maybe the Krystal down in SC that's my adopted Krystal. Or perhaps hold on to it til they finally build me a Krystal in Wilmington. (It seems only fair since they took away my store in Macon!) So the plan it to leave EARLY tomorrow and have dinner (maybe lunch) at Krystal tomorrow. Then breakfast and lunch on Sunday before I leave to come back. Can I make it through the entire menu in 24 hours? I don't know. Will I try? I doubt it. But maybe if I order everything they can't officially close while I am still eating? So I kow this is last minute but if you want to see me and/or bid a fond farewell to the Vineville Krystal, it's tomorrow or Sunday I guess. I make no promises on when I will be there, but I'll try and hang out there as much as I can. And I'll try to keep the crying to a minimum.