Day 7 Location: Big Fish Restaurant 3535 US Highway 1 Princeton, NJ 08540 (Princeton Market Fair)
Day 6 Statistics from City Streets, East Windsor:
We’ve made it to the halfway point of the TDDoC with a trimuphant return to East Windsor. At City Streets we are mere couple of miles from Mecca itself. I considered driving by the old plant before heading over to CS, then I decided why bother. I remember CS when it was a dark seafood restaurant with no view to the outside world. CS is definitely a much nicer place. After an afternoon of the group complaining about the location; how it’s hard to get to, the traffic is going to be bad, the weather is going to be bad, I don’t remember how to drive a car, etc., Ska wonders if anyone was going to show up. The question is would anyone get a “Why??” call if no one actually makes it there. Driving over from Newtown the traffic does backup a little on 95 at the Route 1, but clears up once past the exit. Smooth sailing all the way up Old Trenton road and make it to City Streets.
Inside we find Lisa Eman, Trent Eman, Randy and Cole sitting at a table. Trent has been waiting all day to order a quesadilla as apparently CS makes the best ones in the tri-state area. Various other folks begin showing up and good attendance is achieved for a cold, sleety Tuesday night. Ryan G (youngest member of the TDDoC) is playing with a new toy from the Williams that intrigues everyone. Some sort of rolling ball with the alphabet on it and lots of LED lights. About as much entertainment as to be expected on a Tuesday night.
The battle for TDDoC market share continues with the upstart PA chapter. Tonight their location is far from the NJ one so earning double points is very difficult. We decide that to spur interest in the NJ TDDoC we need some sort of scandal. As repeated TDDoC invites to Bernard Madoff (the wall street crook) and Rod Blagojevich (the governor of Illinois) go unanswered we realize we’ll have to create a scandal on our own. We kick around the idea of getting some unsuspecting individual liquored up, then as they are leaving a strategic call to the local police is made with the description of the car. These thoughts are quickly dismissed as being too cruel and we decide to continue to aggressively market the TDDoC as in the past. The last thing any of us wants is to go to congress asking for a bailout to continue TDDoC operations in 2009.
Last minute report is in. Apparently Eman, Ska, and Mertz each got comped a drink by the male bartender at City Streets. Not sure what is going on there, but all three are pushing hard for a first time, within the same year, repeat visit to CS. Since a repeat visit would be against the rules it was quickly dismissed.
Other statistical notes: Bobo and Dorian had gotten every point in both the NJ and PA chapters this year. However, both missed NJ last night. Bobo did call into CS from the PA location but does not per the rules gain a coveted NJ point. No first timers or even first timers for 2008 make an appearance last night. Seems like Tuesday night we were in maintenance mode.
Attendees: Lisa Eman, Trent Eman, Randy, Cole, Felicia, Mosso, Ska, Mertz, Gman, Su, Eman, Tamps, Goettle, Yvette G, Ryan G, Milot, Dmile
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