I was eating lunch today and overheard a conversation at the table behind me. It was interesting and I wanted to share it, but remember that these are someone else's words, not mine. I have no opinion on the final statement!
"So have you heard the Red Lobster story?"
"No, but I bet it's good knowing you."
"Well I was passing through [some city] Alabama on my way to Mississippi and we had to stop at a motel over night. We hadn't eaten all day and hadn't seen any places on the road we were on. We asked at the office and they said the nearest place was 4 miles away."
(Note that I don't know how they came to be without a car, but somehow or other they were at this motel without one.)
"(Some name) didn't want to walk 4 miles for dinner so she said to have a blast and bring her something back. We headed off through the woods in the general direction we were told to go. Coming out onto a road, I almost got run over by a tow truck. We decided to call the group that was ahead of us to see if they had reached it yet, and they said 'When you reach the burning car you're almost there.' "
General laughter follows.
"I was confused and asked if that was a bar near the restaurant and they said, 'No, it's an actual burning car.' We reached that point and sure enough there was a car, still burning, but pretty much down to just framework. Sitting right in the middle of the road."
"Alabama you said?"
"Yeah."
"See? I told you nothing good ever came out of Alabama."
