Eventful day...

Hordes of people everywhere, practically half the town was there, police directing traffic in the parking lot, cars double parked in every square inch of space... you'd think the Pope had come to town.

Nope, it was the grand opening of the new Arby's restaurant.

I took this pic as I was leaving, after the chaos had died down quite a bit. See the fire lane? Cars were parking all along it around the building and on the road. In fact, I was parked another 50 feet away from where I'm standing here. The drive-thru line wrapped around the building and went out onto the street.

Inside it was a madhouse, you couldn't tell where the order line started and who was waiting for their order they already placed. Half the high school was working behind the counter, kids flying around prepping and bagging while managers wearing ties were working the deep fryers and trying to keep their ties out of the oil. When I made it up to the counter I remarked to an important looking man with a tie "Boy, did you have any idea Keller wanted an Arby's so bad?" He replied that they had already set a company record for a store's opening day.

In reality, we're just glad it's not another mexican restaurant.

So after taking this pic I got in my Jeep and turned the key... *click*. And tried again, *click*. Then I cussed a little. The starter had gone out.

Called Hubby... he then cussed a lot more than me... and came to save me. Actually a neighbor came to help save us too, and with his new truck he towed us home.

Bought a new starter from O'Reillys auto parts, hubby put it in and it turned out to be a bad one... so he took that one back out and now we have to wait until tomorrow for O'Reillys to get one from another store.

Oh well, had an excuse to take a day off work today. :)