Vanilla Shake Hunt

So around 12:30am today I decided I really wanted to get a vanilla shake, bring it back, and watch something on my computer (Gasaraki but this detail doesn't matter).

I am not familiar with which fast food places near me are open till what time etc... so I decide to just go to the nearest major road and hit each fast food place until I find one that's open.

I stop at Burger King (~2 miles from home). Guy at the drive through: no shakes, we clean the machines now. A 24 hour BK should have them... there's one five minutes down the road from this one... make a right.

So I keep going and it takes more than 5 minutes with lights and whatnot. 4.2 miles. There is a line of like 8 cars (freaking 1am man). I'm chatting on google chat (oh my phone) with a friend explaining how ridiculous of a situation this is I have put myself in. We are also discussing team sc2 strats/etc. Eventually I get to the board to order and they say no shakes. I'm pretty pissed and I drive off. I see a Mcdonald's nearby so I eventually make some crazy uturns to get there. 4.5 miles away now. Wait in line for like 5-6 cars and eventually get my large vanilla milk shake. I drive back, missing just about every light again somehow.

Get back to my place, park the car, start walking to the door. It's been almost an hour since I left I swear. A bunch of crickets or some other crazy looking bugs are all chilling right outside my front door. I try to shoo them away so they won't jump into the apartment when I open the door but they are being stubborn. I sorta eventually work it out so I slip in the door without them following me... but I quickly try to close the door behind me so as to block them... and somehow in the confusion 2/3 of my shake ends up the carpeting.

...

I swear I didn't even know HOW you clean that up.

After about 5 minutes of fury, 5 of cleaning, 5 of venting to my friend who was laughing hysterically via google chat, I started looking up local fast food places online and calling them to find one that was open and had shakes. It turns out (after like 7 phone calls) there was a bk a little less than 2 miles away in a direction that had much fewer lights... so I got my shake and came back and ate it while watching Gasaraki.

I was SO mad though LOL

It seems so insignificant to drop your shake and all... but when you invested an hour of time while it's getting late and you have to get back on a work schedule soon... and you really had the whole mood going for eating/watching stuff at a certain time... it just SUCKS to look down and see your shake seeping into your carpeting.

Moral of the story: the crickets must die.
I drive back

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javy_ United States. September 06 2010 15:29. Posts 1291

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i want a vanilla shake now

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micronesia United States. September 06 2010 15:30. Posts 19348

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On September 06 2010 15:29 javy925 wrote:
i want a vanilla shake now

That's what my friend said on google chat LOL

I wonder if he went to get one...

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javy_ United States. September 06 2010 15:37. Posts 1291

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i'm too lazy to go out and get one, so neapolitan ice cream will have to do for now

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FiBsTeR United States. September 06 2010 15:37. Posts 402

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Nono, this is what you get for going to a fast food restaurant for a milkshake. >:[

Put your cravings on hold for a few hours and chalk up the extra green for a shake at a place where you see them put the ice cream in, and not just have mysterious white goop fall out of a big machine.

If you have a Coldstone Creamery near you, they make a good milkshake. You'll forget all about those crickets! :D

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Najda United States. September 06 2010 15:38. Posts 1773

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I bet that 2nd milkshake tasted like sweet sweet victory.

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micronesia United States. September 06 2010 15:39. Posts 19348

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On September 06 2010 15:37 FiBsTeR wrote:
Nono, this is what you get for going to a fast food restaurant for a milkshake. >:[

Put your cravings on hold for a few hours and chalk up the extra green for a shake at a place where you see them put the ice cream in, and not just have mysterious white goop fall out of a big machine.

If you have a Coldstone Creamery near you, they make a good milkshake. You'll forget all about those crickets! :D

I'll be impressed if they are open on Labor day.

On September 06 2010 15:38 Najda wrote:
I bet that 2nd milkshake tasted like sweet sweet victory.

It was 2am. The shake was my silver medal.

Last edit: 2010-09-06 15:39:24

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Issor United States. September 06 2010 15:39. Posts 790

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This is kind of like what happened to me.

I really wanted a chocolate milk, so i walk to the campus store (which closes in ten minutes from the time that I started walking) and when I got there 3 minutes later they had closed early.

I can only imagine that it was as frustrating for me as your milkshake search was.

edit: no, i don't have any chocolate milk. ;;

Last edit: 2010-09-06 15:39:46

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FiBsTeR United States. September 06 2010 15:42. Posts 402

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Ah, I meant in general if you ever have another midnight hankering for milkshakes. ^^

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Severedevil United States. September 06 2010 15:49. Posts 4499

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Get some milk and some ice cream.

Put them in a blender.

Milkshake.

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Divinek Canada. September 06 2010 15:52. Posts 4018

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many plugs for google chat in this blog

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LosingID8 Harlem. September 06 2010 15:58. Posts 10380

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best fastfood chain milkshake i've ever had was from burgerville, but i think they only exist in the pacific northwest (WA/OR)

they have really good flavors:
chocolate
vanilla
strawberry
cherry chocolate
chocolate hazelnut
chocolate monkey (banana)
mocha
pumpkin
blackberry
boysenberry
black forest (chocolate, cherry, coffee)

all of their food is really good actually... yum

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jalstar United States. September 06 2010 16:11. Posts 6949

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in n out has the best vanilla shakes, don't like the other flavors

jack in the box is good for oreo shakes, i personally haven't gone to a fast food place that has a chocolate or strawberry shake i like

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ilovezil United States. September 06 2010 16:32. Posts 4136

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So, those bugs really did a number on you, eh?

Noob, you can't even micro vs crickets, so how will you fight roaches? :O

thopol Japan. September 06 2010 17:01. Posts 4495

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I was just at the local ward office picking up my Gaijin Card and I was like 'am I hungry? I can pick something up... Nahh.' and then I come back and read this blog. I'm fucking starving. Wtf.

imDerek United States. September 06 2010 17:01. Posts 1944

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dam bugs!!

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Endymion United States. September 06 2010 17:54. Posts 2477

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I can't believe you actually went and got a second one.. Seriously, I would have raged, cleaned the carpet, and went straight to bed. Would be way too much frustration losing a vanilla shake at 1am..

It left us speechless, quite speechless I tell you, and we have not stopped talking of it since.

Spiffeh United States. September 06 2010 18:26. Posts 780

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Dicks still makes old fashioned shakes. Yum yum

Entropic Canada. September 06 2010 18:53. Posts 2356

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On September 06 2010 17:54 Endymion wrote:
I can't believe you actually went and got a second one.. Seriously, I would have raged, cleaned the carpet, and went straight to bed. Would be way too much frustration losing a vanilla shake at 1am..

Yeah can't believe micronesia actually drove back to get another. That's determination man.