# Weird things that have happened to you in restaurants **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-have-happened-to-you-in-restaurants/473039 "2008-11-16T22:07:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-have-happened-to-you-in-restaurants/473039/2 "2008-11-16T22:21:12Z")
Last night, my husband and I were walking home from the train station after a long day in the city. We were trying to get to our car, which was parked a few blocks down and in somewhat isolated area. It was dark and rainy, with few people on the streets. I turned to him. ‘‘I am starving.’’ He agreed, and at that exact moment in time, we stumbled across an otherwise deserted parking lot with rows of what I can only describe as tiny trailers plastered with menu items. The two in the front were dark and lifeless, but emanating from behind them was a pulsing middle-eastern inspired techno beat. ‘‘Wait, is that actually a place that sells food?’’ It was as if, magically, all our wishes had been granted, in the middle of an isolated residential street in New Jersey. We approached the trailer/food booth, which required us to walk quite a ways back into the parking lot, out of visibility from the street. There were two or three people ordering. I don’t remember everything on the menu, but there was an excessive use of the phrase FAT SANDWICHES. THE FAMOUS FAT SANDWICH. ROAST BEEF FAT SANDWICH. I was aware they were menu items, but somehow nothing on the menu made sense. I felt an overpowering sense of deception. We were next in line. The guy behind the counter looked down at us expectantly, bathed in the sound of mystical techno. I glanced over at my husband. We wordlessly came to the conclusion we weren’t eating there, turned around, and got the hell back on the main road. I can only describe it as akin to the sensation one gets when a magical shop appears and a shriveled old man appears hawking a monkey’s paw. Once we were out of ear shot, husband said, ‘‘Is it just me, or…’’ ‘‘No, not just you.’’ We talked about what a surreal experience it was the whole way to Burger King. Maybe we were just exhausted, but a part of me secretly wonders if we didn’t escape unspeakable horror last night. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-have-happened-to-you-in-restaurants/473039)._