I just got home from camping out for 24 hours for the grand opening of the Chic-Fil-A on Orange Avenue. Let me tell you, it was quite an ordeal!  In case you aren’t familiar with Chic-Fil-A grand openings, the first 100 people get 52 free meal cards.  If there are more than 100 people there at 6am the day before, then everyone enters into a raffle.  Well, yesterday there were around 150 people so a raffle was done.  I wasn’t called for the raffle, but afterwords they called 10 more people to be the extras in case anyone drops off.  Yep, you guessed it, I was called number 110.  Dead last. My friend Cole got called number 59 and two other friends from Discovery were part of the “first 100″.  I was really about to leave after breakfast but somehow they managed to talk me into staying. (maybe because I provided the only internet service there!? Tethered iPhone + Macbook Pro network sharing! Ha!) Anyhow, they told me that if I didn’t end up getting any prize that they would graciously share some of theirs with me – so kind, gotta love those guys! All in all, I ended up getting 23 meal coupons, a book, a mug, and a Chic-Fil-A paper hat. Haha. I can’t complain, it was a pretty fun time.

There were some HARDCORE fans there though.  People who make it their life to travel and go to every Chic-Fil-A grand opening.  One person had been to 44! That’s so ridiculous! I’d have to agree with Cole Nesmith’s post about the event, “people who had almost made a career chasing the immediate reward at the sacrifice of any investment into the long term vision of their lives.” I mean, it’s got to take lots of time and effort to travel around to these things, especially if you’re from another state. I can’t imagine “dedicating” myself to attending all of these! If you could have only seen some of the people that went to these, then you’d understand!

All in all, it was a fun time hanging out with friends and making new friends along the way.  Will I ever do one of these again? Who knows… probably not!