and let's hope the free page(s) offers a troll-less forum containing an exchange of meaningful ideas to the general BJ community.
BJ21 has always been the primer BJ site and will always remain so in my eyes. The talk and hype of other sites will moderate. We'll still be here strong as ever.
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger".
dogman
experts on this site.
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Joe's Diner, a San Diego fixture since 1996, once again offers free food; it had temporarily stopped doing that two weeks ago.
Joe's actually is two restaurants. One is a traditional sit-down restaurant, and the other is a standing-room-only free buffet. Whenever he was asked why he gave away free food, Joe said that he wanted people to sample his chef's preparations, and if they liked the free food, he hoped they would patronize his sit-down restaurant.
At first people really liked Joe's free buffet, and many of the people who tried it moved up to Joe's sit-down restaurant. Then problems developed in the free buffet. A few patrons took to spitting into the serving dishes. In response, other patrons were given large spoons to scoop out and dispose of any food containing spittle. (The patrons with the large spoons became known locally as spitbusters.) Joe was not happy about the spitting because it resulted in fewer patrons graduated from the free buffet to the sit-down restaurant, but he kept the free buffet open anyway.
Then some patrons started complaining about the lack of chairs on which to sit while enjoying Joe's free food. Joe's attitude was that people who wanted to sit while eating should patronize his sit-down restaurant. One or two patrons left and vowed never to return to either of Joe's restaurants unless Joe started providing chairs in the free-food area.
The free food was available 24 hours a day, seven days a week until two weeks ago, when Joe discontinued it. The reason for Joe's action is some patrons had taken to urinating into the serving dishes, and the spitbusters were unable to spoon out the contaminated food quickly enough. Recently Joe reopened his free buffet, but with only one serving dish and larger spoons for his spitbusters.
Stanford Wong
I'll never forget how good my first free meal tasted when I was hungry and poor. The gourmet cuisine at his fancy-pants place ain't too shabby either.
Cool guy.
-J.
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MN
Great writing, very eloquent. I must take to using metaphors like this in my own writing.
I was one of Joe's customers who left the free buffet because of all the spit. It didn't even have to get to the urine stage for me.
I also hear that Joe has a silver service restaurant upstairs above his diner. I ate there once. The shiny silver plate on the door looked nice, and there there was promise of gourmet delights within.
But when I got inside, all I met were other diners too scared partake in the most delicious cuisine, in case someone else saw their sumptuous dish and ordered up it up big, thus depleting the supply.
However, there were whispers of private dining rooms behind closed doors within the silver service restaurant....
AWS
What a terrible post! When reading please take into account the following:
"there there" should be "there" in the third paragraph.
"scared partake" should be "scared to partake" in the fourth paragraph.
"up it up" should be "it up" in the penultimate paragraph.
AWS
Funny one, but not sure what was the reference about the chairs?
Joe has always been a gentleman, having polite behavior and obeying a code of ethics even when dealing with people urinating in his food. Being gentlemanly has certain commendable qualities but, sometimes, being that way can tend to hurt everyone concerned, including the gentleman. The gentleman is hurt when his free buffet becomes less inviting, offering just salads and water when before there was a selection and coffee and ice tea. Fewer will be attracted to the free buffet so fewer will want to go in the private dining room.
It is difficult for gentlemen to exist in the slums where people just pull it out and urinate at will but there are some not raised in high rent districts who sometimes think pissing back is the best course.
These people would not be gentlemanly but would, instead, put a billboard outside the establishment describing the people who urinate in the food in detail and make it impossible for those persons to stay in the neighborhood. Or even more effective the other patrons of the free buffet which now consists of only a salad and water could inform the people who provide the urinators' incomes of their identities. There are a number of billboards in the neighborhood.
I play BJ on the riverboats ,not a counter, but I miss "VEGAS LIFE" don't think it's worth to join GREEN CHIP
