[NJARC] A wonderful time at the holiday dinner (diner) last night

[John Ruccolo]

John,

You GOTTA be kidding us!!!

BTW, it's Mastoris Diner, not Mastori's. The family is Greek, not Italian.

Santa, I think you screwed up.....BIG time!

CU LATER,

JR


--- On Sat, 12/13/08, John Dilks K2TQN <oldradio at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> From: John Dilks K2TQN <oldradio at worldnet.att.net>
> Subject: [NJARC] A wonderful time at the holiday dinner (diner) last night
> To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 7:27 AM
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> Hi gang,
> 
> The Sarnoff Center is almost a two hour ride for me, so I
> planned my timing all day so I could get there before 6 PM. 
> I had Sherry primed that we needed to get out to the house
> by 3:30, which we did.  On the way up, we diverted to the
> Hess station on Route 38 in Mount Holly for our annual
> purchase of Hess trucks for our littlest grandchildren. 
> Traffic was heavy and I thought we were running late after
> that.
> 
> I tried a new way to 295 from 206 and shaved 10 minuets off
> the trip.  This helped.
> 
> Arriving at the center at about 5:30 I was at first pleased
> to get a "prized" parking space out front, usually
> reserved for the early birds.  Then looking around I noticed
> that the other parking area appeared empty.  Then I noticed
> the lights were off inside the building where we enter.  Not
> to be deterred, we exited the car and walked to the entrance
> door - which we found locked.
> 
> Now I began to wonder if we were the first ones there and
> that I had my times messed up?  Back at the car I dug out my
> cell phone and called Ray Chase.   (I figured he
> wouldn't be home and would be arriving at any moment.) 
> He answered.
> 
> After a short conversation Ray suggested that I take Sherry
> to dinner on the way home.
> 
> So we stopped at Mastori's Diner in Bordentown.  There
> must have been 200 cars in the lot, they were busy.  But we
> got in - in about ten minutes and had dinner. The trip home
> after was uneventful and quiet.  We arrived home at about
> 9:30, which was the earliest we ever got home from a NJARC
> meeting.
> 
> The hardest part of it all was that I attracted all kinds
> of attention every where I went.  I'm not quite sure
> why?  Everybody said hello to me and acted as if they wanted
> to be my friend.  Little old ladies stared at me, the
> younger ones smiled.  Men said hello and asked me how's
> business?  Strange?
> 
> Bah Humbug and ho-ho-ho!
> John and Sherry 
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