Sustaining Ourselves
BY JENIECE "GIDGET" TORANZO, MESA, ARIZONA - Since working on the post production, we have been naughty about eating good. When we're racing against time my friend, it's all about fast food. Last night at the Inn Suites hotel, where we are currently working at, Cyndi gave MK and I the responsibility to handle dinner while everyone else was working on the post production. As usually, no one knew where or what they wanted to eat. "What do you want to eat?" "I don't know. What do you want to eat?" After about 10-20 minutes of I don't knows, I suggested Chick-fil-a. I love Chick-fil-a because they are pretty healthy and have good quality food considering it's fast food, unlike some other fast food joints. No need to name names. We know who they are.
After we had all, well except two, agreed to Chick-fil-a, I went online to find locations as to where they were at. I don't know my way around Tempe so doing a google search on it sounded like a good idea. MK and I studied the map and then wrote down the number "just in case". As we started to drive, we were debating on what the best route would be to get to our destination. We thought of several ways but settled on just taking side streets instead of the freeway. That was our first mistake. Going down Baseline was just peachy if you minus all the little red lights we had to stop at. We finally got to Mill Ave. road and I forget that I hate driving down there because the road splits into weird directions. Well of course I ended up going the wrong was and we had to keep turning around. When we finally got to the road where we thought Chick-fil-a would be at, it was no where to be found. Just our luck. We kept going to little side streets hoping that we would "accidently" stumble upon it. It's a good thing that M.K. was with me because we ended up finally stopping and asking for directions. I would have just kept driving around or givin up if it were me. Yeah yeah, typical guy thing huh. Somehow I was blessed with that trait.
Well, we found out that Chick-fil-a was located at ASU. After asking several more people and circling around the school campus some more, we figured out that it was on campus inside the one of the buildings and upstairs. While we were asking for directions from several students, M.K. made a comment "feels like we're back in Zambia again". We laughed and thought, who knew it be this difficult to get food in the states too! It took over an hour just to get dinner and the place was only a few miles away! Oh well, I guess it's something to laugh at now. M.K. and I shared a priceless moment that is now just a memory to us. Thanks M.K.! Love ya girl!
The next day, of course, I had the responsibility again to handle dinner. Like always, it took an hour to even decide where we were going to eat and calling for locations. It was a toss up between Baja Fresh, Rubios, and Chipotle. Well, Chipotle won the votes. I said I wuld go pick it up again for everyone. I was gonna go by myself, but apparently Jacobo wanted to go with me since he hasn't been out of the hotel that day. I knew they didn't want me to go by myself though, but it's nice to know that they care. Well, it was a good thing he did come because low and behold, it was Zambia all over again, I tell ya. Again, it was only a few miles away and we drove around trying to find the place for almost an hour! Jacob finally decided that maybe we should stop at a gas station and ask for directions. Well we started to pull into the gas station when we both chickened out and changed our minds about asking. It was a funny moment I must say. We just ended up going back on the road and driving up and down the street some more. Finally after calling Carlos for directions, which weren't exactly accurate and not helpful, Jacobo finally figured out were it was at. It took some thinking and use of his memory to solve the case. Chipotle ended up being behind some buildings next to the freeway. They definitly need a bigger sign or something because it's not very noticable at all. Since I have never been there before, I had no idea what to look for. Not much help I was, huh. To make matters worse, I didn't realize that they weren't a drive through either. Trying to order 6 different burritos was not all that peachy either because one, they play their music really loud which makes it difficult to hear and two, if you don't know their ingredients then it's hard to understand what they are talking about. I felt like a goober, but it's a good thing Jacobo had my back and knew what to do. Good looking out Jacobo! Ha ha. Jacobo is funny because he wanted to make up a lie to the crew as to why it took us so long. There were a long line of a highschool band with their brothers, sisters, mothers...(wink wink). He's funny. I will sure miss him when he and Alec move up to New York City! I will cherish the moments that I have spent with ALL of them.