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Chase Auto Finance, Holy Crap
Posted on January 15, 2010
 On the way to work I missed a phone call, from a faraway areacode and a number I don’t know.
A stoplight provides opportunity, I dial back and an automatic attendant tells me that I’ve the unique pleasure of talking to the one-and-only Chase Auto Finance corporation. I wracked my brains but remembered no delinquency. The robots requested I tap in my account number or, barring that, my social security number. |
Bennigan’s Out Of Business, Michigan Not So Lucky
Posted on July 29, 2008
You may have heard the good news: the restaurant that popularized if not actually originated the Crap-On-The-Walls style of theme restaurant is out of business.
You are probably at least as happy about this as I am. But, unfortunately, my plans to celebrate this happy occasion were cut short as I learned yet another reason Michigan is a depressed state:
“The trickle-down is that half of the Bennigan’s in the country close – that’s the bad news,” Hansen said. “The bad news is thousands of people lost their jobs today. The only good news is that none of them were in Michigan.”
-Tri-Cities Business Review
So franchise owners are free to continue operating as Bennigan’s, polluting the food supply with deep fried ham sandwiches covered in jam, while all of the corporate-owned establishments are mercifully closed, increasing the nutritional quality of the American foodscape by default.
Sucks for us, but still a good day to be an American on the whole.
I used Google maps to locate my nearest Bennigan’s. I won’t eat there, no, but I’ll drive by and wonder where they’ll get replacement crap for their walls.
