Wednesday, July 05, 2006
I'm spotted all over! (Like a Dalmatian)
| My brother and his family live just outside of Washington, DC. They are vacationing down in South Carolina. My sister in law, Amy's family is from all over South Carolina. Yesterday, they had hopped the border into Georgia to go to the outlet stores up in Commerce, GA. Everyone in georgia knows exactly where Commerce is and what's there. Anyone who is going to Commerce is going to shop. Period. So as Amy pulls up to a stoplight just off I-85, my middle nephew, Ethan, casually announces to the rest of the car, "Hey there's Uncle Jason's Picture." He says it as laid back as you could imagine because Ethan is just such a laid back kid. Amy at first doesn't understand what he means until she realizes there's a Krystal on the corner and apparently they have a sign in the window with several KLHOF winners, including me, pictured. Amy and my oldest nephew, William start screaming and jumping for joy (well as much as you can in a Durango).  I have been asked repeatedly by friends of mine why they never see me on the signs, posters or hanging banners in Krystal. I have been to like 12-15 different Krystals and haven't seen myself on any of them. I figured maybe I just wasn't one of the chosen few. I figured perhaps since I was on a cup I wasn't on other stuff, or maybe they just didnt have my stuff ready in time to put on the ads. Also, of course, there's the likelyhood that I'm just too darn ugly to put on the ads. Well Eagle has crushed that myth for me! So what does this mean? Well it means I will have to once again dispatch the Krystal Adventure Research Staff (that means me and my pick up) to investigate. Sadly with the holiday this week and the quarter starting next Tuesday, I too busy at work to break loose this week to get up to Commerce. It's about a 2.5-3 hour drive from Macon. So Saturday appears to be the day I will make my way up there. What will I do when I get there? Well obviously I will take oodles of pictures. But then I will make every attempt to acquire the sign. This may be tricky. I do not know if they are 'static' signs or if they have true adhesive. Either way I suspect it will be impossible to remove it quickly or quietly, so covert actions will be impossible. I will have to resort to asking nicely, begging and pleading, or perhaps outright bribery. Since they obviously need to keep their window signs up, I doubt they'd let go of it right now, so I'll leave my Krystal Kid business card (yes I do have some) and hope they call me when the sign comes down. I'll then make a mad dash back to Commerce and pick it up to add to my growing collection of 'Cool Krystal Stuff You Don't Have.' If anyone happens to be in or near Commerce between now and this coming weekend, pop on over by the Krystal on Hwy 441 at I-85. Click off a few pictures of my sign. Email em to me and I'll post em here and give you credit. With this new sighting, I am thinking my Where's Jason? If you've sent me a sighting notice and I haven't posted it up, could you please just email me a reminder real quick at JasonJ1052@aol.com so I can make sure I get them all up there? Apparently the boxes are still out there, the cups are just rolling out now, and the sign has caught me completely off guard. Happy hunting and let me know when you find me!  |
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