Our Trip to The WAFFLE HOUSE
Wednesday, February 14th, Atlanta, GA
Today was our setup day at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Due to a confined area for our daytime activities, we only had to put up about half of our production!!
At 7pm, after waiting 2 hours for the security to arrive, Sammy, Phil and I headed back to the AmeriSuites. Sammy fell asleep in the van. Phil and I were so consumed with taking pictures of him asleep, we didn't realize we had missed the exit. After discovering our mistake, we turned around and started back to the Atlanta area.
Since we were all hungry, we decided to stop for dinner. A last minute decision lead us away from Cracker Barrel and over to the infamous WAFFLE HOUSE. (If you are not familiar with the WAFFLE HOUSE, here is a quick description: A chain-style, cheap, butter-and-grease-loving diner that exists in most of the South, and heavily in the Atlanta area, as the headquarters are in Norcross, GA.) We arrived to a WH occupied by 2 'locals' and 2 WH employees, "Jo Jo" (a young kid who was learning to be a WH cook) and "Richard" (an older man who was our waiter). Please imagine my excitement at being in a WAFFLE HOUSE, since I haven't been to one in at least a year and a half! After ordering, we started joking about the unhealthy nature of the dinner we were to be consuming. And, of course, Sammy starts on his routine about this being the "last time we eat unhealthy like this..."
Okay, so the food arrives and we start eating. Oh, you want to know what we ordered?
Phil ordered a Steak(which he soon basted heavily with Steak Sauce), Sammy ordered a double serving of hashed browns covered with Chili, onions and cheese, and I tried the Steak and Cheese Omelette(essentially, it's a chopped-up cheeseburger in an omelette).
The food was...ah... food. But it did the job.
But wait! The story doesn't end there... (as it would be pretty lame if that was it - not even worth typing up!)
"Jo Jo" approached us with some speal about him being new and wanting to know how the food was. We all knew he was leading into the question of who we were and why did we have a Van completely wrapped in a decal. So we took our chance to befriend the young lad and make our move for the much-sought-after(debatable) WAFFLE HOUSE hat. We explained our gig and told him how excited we were to back at a WAFFLE HOUSE. We asked if we could get a hat, he replied with "... yeah, if I can get a VW..." We convinced him to settle for a CD that had been part of the previous semester's giveaways. Then the waiter got involved and traded his hat for a tan VW baseball cap. At this point, we had these two WH employees hooked! After having established our love for WH, we then persuaded them to take a picture of the three of us acting like we were WAFFLE HOUSE cooks! Then, seeing how much fun was being missed out on, the locals wanted to have their photo taken.(Note the greed CD and tan VW hat in possession of the WH employees.
We realized we may had overstayed our welcome and made our move to get out the door before the locals and employees realized we were having fun with them!
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