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Denny's #1405 San Jose, California 05 October 2000 9:00pm PDT 1001 E. Capitol Expressway, near McLaughlin (408) 578-2549

• Attendees: P7A77, Amie, Gilmore, Linnea
• Wait-person(s): Kevin
• What we ate: P7A77 - Smoked Moons Over My Hammy (eggs scrambled), Hashbrowns, Coffee; Amie - Double Decker Classic, French Fries, Iced Tea; Gilmore - Garlic Mushroom Burger, French Fries, Coke, Coffee (yes - shut up); Linnea - Chicken Cordon Bleu, French Fries, Diet Coke
• Amie and I were going to the area for two reasons. One was because she had a job interview that Friday (she had been "let go" in a "mutual decision" from her previous employer a few weeks previous). But more importantly, the last two shows of potentially the last tour ever (tho' not confirmed) of Phish were in Mountain View that weekend. It also happened to be Amie's birthday. The planets may have been aligning, too. Since the only thing that could make a birthday spent all day in airports and on airplanes more depressing is going to Denny's (especially since they don't do the free birthday meals any more), that's exactly where we went within hours of arriving in San Jose.
• Our waiter, Kevin, was enthusiastic, friendly, and courteous, which immediately made us suspicious. It turns out it was his second day on the job, so it all made sense. To help illustrate his trainee status, he asked me how I wanted my eggs prepared with the Moons. As any seasoned traveler knows, they only come scrambled. I said as much and he went on his way, only to come back a few minutes later for more clarification. I'm not really sure what happened, but I think he had told the cook that I wanted my side of eggs scrambled. Luckily this cook knew how the food was supposed to be prepared, so he sent Kevin back to clarify that I wanted a side order of eggs. I didn't, and explained that eggs come on the sandwich, hence the "Moons" in the title, and that I wanted my side dish to be hashbrowns, as previously stated.
• Once that confused was taken care of, Gilmore and Linnea were able to play with the complimentary ZOOBS left in a bucket near our table. The final result was some sort of big-headed four-legged two-tailed monster thing that, now that I look at it, resembles one of the sculptures that attacks the Catharine O'Hara and Jeffery Jones in Beetlejuice, but I think they just ran out of ZOOBS.
• In a pathetic attempt to make Amie's birthday more special, once the food arrived I brought out birthday candles I had stealthily brought with us from Tucson and proceeded to stick them in her bun. I had been hoping she was going to get her standard of Moons Over My Hammy (which has toasted sourdough), but the soft bun of the burger was only able to withstand fourteen candles before it started to collapse.
• The rest of our meal went without incident (aside from the lack of coffee refills). I tried to get some free stuff from Kevin, but he was a little confused and then got busy making a salad or something, so we treated ourselves to the Daily Features sign in the lobby. It featured the meal I had just eaten and told us that kindness was free. (To be fair, and to clear myself from liability, it's actually Gilmore who took the sign, since I was too much of a spineless wimp.)
• WAY: No
• Free Stuff: Display Board

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