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Restaraunt Road Rules

Ahhh, a post that expands more on the Restaraunt Road Rules ("RRR"). Basically speaking, there are only two constants to RRR: a starting point (the place where everyone meets) and a destination point (a place that serves food). Other than those two, anything goes; in the car, RRR participants take turns making up rules (i.e. fast food or sit down? left or right side of the street? etc.). Just a few RRR observations:

1. When going towards O'Hare, you are almost guaranteed that Heavenly Bodies inadvertently becomes a realistic possibility.
2. When the rule, "Cannot eat at a restaraunt with a purple car in the parking lot" is in effect, finding a restaraunt without a purple car in the parking lot becomes difficult.
3. When the rule, "Must eat at the restaraunt closest to the sign that has 'tit'" is in effect, silence fills the car because everyone is looking for some tit.
4. Eating at a restaraunt that satisfies the above rule proves that the "perpetual rule" will be used one day. The Perpetual Rule - If you see a man wearing a yellow raincoat with his son, you must ask the man to have dinner at his home.

And after this past Saturday,

5. When Carl bitches about an area (Rush St.), expect to be in this area when RRR are is in effect that night.

Yah, after talking to Carl and hearing from him how last weekend on Rush St. sucked and that he didn't want to do that again, what are the chances that we end up in the same place again? With Carl's luck, pretty high. After deciding that Subway should not be considered a restaraunt through intelligent debate (rocks, paper, scissors), we decided on PJ Clarkes, which was a block down from where we were last week.

What normally would have taken 20 minutes to get to took almost 2 hours. I think we were pretty hungry. So it should come as no surprise that the question of the moment while taking a look at the menu was not what to eat, but rather, "When a bartender quits his/her job, does the restaraunt update the 'Bartender's Favorite Picks" section on their menu to reflect the new bartender's favorite picks?" Our server Caressa couldn't answer the question. And she turned into a ghost when she saw that we actually tried calling the bar on their work phone to get the answer: