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- Denny's #0864
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- 26-Oct-96, 1:00am EDT
- 3310 Washtenaw Rd., off Rt. 23
- (313) 971-0090
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- Attendees: P7A77, Ken Apel, Angelique DuPres, Cindi Fountain, Drew Milcdajczyk, Chris Moore, Jim
- Wait-person(s): N/A
- What we ate: N/A
- After loading up the bus with props and hanging around in an apartment in Ann Arbor for a while with a group of people each of whom were on one illicit drug or another, we decided to go to Denny's and satiate our hungry stomachs. We figured, hey, it's before bar time, it's a double college town, it's a Friday night... no problem gettin' food at Denny's. But no. As we were walking up to the front door, we saw a Denny's employee walking to the door from the inside. She taped a note up to the door. She locked the door.
The note said "Closed Due to Maintenance - Sorry. Thank you, Management". They were fucking CLOSED. Do you understand me? The place that promises to be ALWAYS OPEN was CLOSED. It would be one thing if this was in a tough crime area and they always closed on the weekends, but it was in fucking Ann Arbor, Michigan, home of Hash Bash, and it was CLOSED. Not because of a bomb threat. Not because they were spraying for bugs. Not because they were being held up. They were MOPPING the fucking FLOORS on a FRIDAY night. The bastards.
I was able to yell through the door and find out the Denny's #, but I could't get her to tell me about "Weird Al". We hung around and waited for one of the lucky customers (those who were able to get in before this abomination to Denny's locked its doors) left, then we reached inside the door, grabbed the sign that the manager had put up, and high-tailed it back to Toledo.
This was probably the only time in my life I was actually happy to be leaving Ann Arbor.
- WAY: Undetermined
- Free Stuff: "Closed for Maintenance" sign (stolen)
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- Denny's #1383
- Belleville, Michigan
- 29-Nov-97, 7:30pm EST
- 2033 Rawsonville Rd, I-94 near Metro Airport
- (313) 482-3880
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- Attendees: P7A77, Adder, Amie
- Wait-person(s): click on the photo and see if you can figure it out by her name tag
- What we ate: some cheesesticks maybe? a milkshake or two, we think...
- So after Monroe we didn't see much. We weren't expecting to at first, since were were just aiming towards Canada, but as we left and headed towards Ann Arbor, there was nothing. Like a damn fool, I forgot to take along one of my many Denny's guides, or even a map, so we were just stuck drivin' on the highway and hoping we'd pass something. By the time we had driven through Ann Arbor, we had given up hope, so, having remembered hearing there were two in the Ann Arbor area (I had only been to one of them previously), I stopped and looked up the address in a phone book, and asked a gas station attendant for directions. It, of course, was on a different highway, and almost half-way back to Detroit. Damn it all.
- Since that's about all I can remember (aside from that evil woman hrassing me and tainting my beverages), I asked Amie to write up something for this entry, too. Well, maybe "asked" is the wrong word. Demanded.
- [from Amie]: Well, after driving all through Ann Arbor looking for possible Denny's, we came to realize that the Denny's we had passed on some freeway near there was the only one we were going to find (and I guess the only one in existence, who the hell cares). The experience there was unremarkable. I decided to torment P7A77 and dumped salt in his water and was generally goofy and silly, and poor Adder wasn't quite sure how to react. I think I had a milkshake, though I could have had cheesesticks, though actually, I think P7A77 had the cheesesticks, I stole one, but enjoyed my Oreo milkshake, what Adder had is anyone's guess.
- WAY: ???
- Free Stuff: crappy take-out and kids menu stuff, judging by the photo
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- Denny's #6229
- Dundee, Michigan
- 25-Oct-96, 9:35pm EDT
- 635 Tecumseh Rd., US Hwy 23 exit 17
- (313) 529-3880
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- Attendees: P7A77, Ken Apel, Angelique DuPres, Cindi Fountain, Drew Milcdajczyk, Chris Moore, Jim
- Wait-person(s): Lisa and Michelle
- What we ate: Nothing
- If the people in the photo look a tad bit more frightening than usual, it's because they're all members of the Rocky Horror cast in Toledo. It was the week before our big Halloween shows, and we were taking Das Bus up to Ann Arbor to pick up some props and sets that a friend of Cindi's had sitting on her porch collecting dust. We didn't eat anything because we were anxious to get to Ann Arbor and figured, heck, we'd get something to eat there. Boy, were we wrong.
On a side note, this Denny's was on the same road that I was driving on when I witnessed a particularly viscious truck accident a few years back. No worries, the person involved wasn't hurt terribly bad, just very, very drunk. The truck was totalled, tho'.
- WAY: Dave (cook) and Will (cook)
- Free Stuff: Grand Value Menu (7 of them!)
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- Denny's #1266
- Kalamazoo, Michigan
- 4 October 2002
- 4:20pm EDT
- 3817 E. Cork St.
- (269) 342-4633
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- Attendees: P7A77, Amie
- Wait-person(s): Unknown
- What we ate: Nothing
- And so we reach the final Denny's of the trip, in good ol' Kalamazoo, latter-day home of Elvis. Even though we didn't eat anything, the manager gave me a personalized name tag. I suppose if it wasn't personalized, it'd simply be a tag.
- Toledo was a host of disappointments. The high-school reunion had been planned very late in the game and hardly anyone was there, and of those in attendance, nobody was much of a P7 fan. I stopped by the first Denny's I ever attended in my life, which is the same as the one I used to work and the first one for Das Büs. This is a Denny's with an especially-groovy old-school sign, even groovier than the one most of us have seen. It was GONE. As was the other Denny's I frequented in high school.
- Picked myself up from that disappointment and went to pay a visit to Das Büs, which has frankly seen better days. I went to climb in through the back and noticed what looked like chunky sawdust on the floor. Got in, looked up, and OH MY GOD WASPS. Let's back up a few. When I was a kid, I happened to step in a wasp's nest that had fallen on the ground. I was wearing long pants. Wasps fly in, they don't fly out. I am emotionally scarred for life. Needless to say, I got right the fuck out of there.
- My plans for a quick drive out the window, I contented myself to hang off the side for a glamor shot. Then one last hug and off I went.
- So let's total up the trip. Three Denny's that we were unable to attend because they were closed for the night or closed permanently, two previously-visited (and my hometown) Denny's out of business, and a bus infested by wasps. Time to give up this li'l old website, perhaps? Soon, I promise.
- WAY: Unknown
- Free Stuff: Name Tag
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- Denny's #1635
- Monroe, Michigan
- 29-Nov-97, 4:30pm EST
- 1224 N. Dixie Hwy, off I-75
- (313) 243-1833
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- Attendees: P7A77, Adder, Amie
- Wait-person(s): who the hell knows
- What we ate: uncertain, tho' it's likely Adder had the Southern Slam, since he always has the Southern Slam.
- Okay. Bear with me. I had all my notes from a bunch of Denny's entries all compiled together, and I was preparing to update the pages. And they accidentally got thrown away. Okay, so it's my fault for never remembering to take a pad of paper with me so I end up writing the notes on a napkin or something. And it's my fault for waiting half a year before deciding to update these damn pages. So I'm just gonna make up stuff for the next few entries. If you don't like it, too bad. Not like many of the over one-hundred entries I've written so far are too much different from one another anyway.
- What I remember from this trip is that Amie and I were back in my home town of Toledo for Thanksgiving, and Adder drove up from Oxford to spend it with us. Since I knew Detroit had a whole bunch of suburbs, I figured there'd be a Denny's or two in the area. Amie had never been to Canada, so we justified our trip as being a drive to Windsor. Too bad it was such a rainy cold weekend. The first Denny's appeared rather soon, just over the Ohio/Michigan border. Adder informed me that Monroe was the home of La-Z-Boy, and lo and behold, a billboard corroborated his claim. We were also listening to Evolution Control Committee (courtesy of Adder), so it was a fun ride. The mighty hamburger.
- While I don't remember much from the Denny's experience itself, I do remember where we sat. It was in the row of booths that are to your right as you enter the place.. near the T-intersection of walkway. ...in case you're ever there and want to say "oh, look, that's where they sat!" I'm horrible at writing filler.
- WAY: ???
- Free Stuff: ???
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