MangoMan wrote: βWed Dec 23, 2020 12:03 pm
While all of this may be true (in your opinion) did it occur to you that maybe there is a superior sandwich at another 'restaurant' that is just as good a value and prepared just as quickly?
Here is a Chicago food / restaurant story for you....
In July 1981 a friend and I were on a bus tour of the United States.
On July 3, 1981 we reached Chicago. As soon as our bags arrived in our hotel room (none of these rooms were even close to being bottom of the barrel hotels. Actually much better than what I needed and what I would have chosen if it was not part of the package price and I had to pay for the rooms) we left to hit the streets to find somewhere to eat.
I imagine this would have been somewhere in the 5 PM to 7 PM time period.
Our mutual expectation was that we'd find some place in the next five to ten minute time period and that we'd be able to experience something different than we'd experienced all our lives, him having live in Rhode Island all his life and me having lived either there or Western Massachusetts.
We kept walking and walking and walking. Like forever! We could not find any place to eat in an hour of walking around the streets of Chicago! Again I described the room above as I way of saying that we not even close to staying in a slum area of Chicago.
I think we finally found a Chinese restaurant to eat which was decidedly NOT a new experience for either of us.
The next night though we did have a unique Chicago experience. Or, it could have been that same night. I forget now.
We were trying to locate somewhere. We saw a Chicago policeman across the street from us.
My friend beckoned with his right hand for that Chicago policeman to come to us.
Wow!!! He let us know in no uncertain terms that there was no way mere mortals such as ourselves should ever expect such a response from a god like him! I was actually just an observer to this. But never before or since have I ever encountered such pure police arrogance.
I am sure, though, that it made me have flashbacks to the famed Chicago "police riots" during the 1968 Democratic convention. This policeman right in front of me seemed to represent the type who would have gleefully taken part in that particular "police riot".
One more walking around story from that trip.
We hit Los Angeles. As part of tour package price there were many the things that were paid for. One of them was getting on the bus for a trip Hollywood. I proposed to my friend that, instead of doing that, that we spend that time walking around Los Angeles to see the "nice" parts of Los Angeles.
He agreed and that is what we did.
However, we must have walked around three hours, maybe as many five hours, around Los Angeles and we were unable to find ONE "nice" part of Los Angeles. That led me to conclude that there were no "nice" parts of Los Angeles. I think during all that walking around I only saw one library.
I told my friend I'd made the wrong choice. We should have gone to Hollywood!
Vinny