Now that was weird....

Just about every time we take the twins to a restaurant, 10 year old Jonas will invariably say, "Something always happens when we go to a restaurant with Grandma." 

It's really not every time, but I guess enough, that he remembers. Usually simple things, like they we were given the wrong food, or the waitress suddenly gets sick and needs to go home.  

I think he's probably too young to even remember this time. 

But its happened enough in his mind, that Jonas will usually mention it on our drive there.  

So imagine how I felt last week when we drive up to Dennys and saw this...



That's Denny's front door all boarded up. 
No sign, no explanation. 

Jonas said, "I think there was a shooting." 

I didn't see any police tape. 
"Obviously they aren't open for business, 
so let's just go somewhere else."

But then I couldn't just leave without knowing what was going. So we looked in the windows and saw customers eating. 

But how did they get in there?

Then we looked to our right and saw this:

Apparently there was some sort of 

make shift sign that had fallen down.

Then Den wandered over the other side of the restaurant 

and saw this..

We walk up closer and see, oh, here's the entrance!

At this point I just wanted to go elsewhere, but not without first finding out what was going on. We went inside and asked a waitress. 

She said an elderly person accidentally drove their car through the entrance and into the restaurant. 

Amazingly no one got hurt! That was right in the area customers are coming and going.

She said there was this loud bang and the restaurant rather shook, and the customers were all nervous.

Glad we missed that one!

But here's what's nearly as odd. That event happened a whole week before. You would think a big place like Dennys would have maintenance help in place for emergencies like this. 

We drove by tonight, 3 1/2 weeks after the incident, and here's what it looks like now...

So at least they have a proper sign up now.

But it still makes me nervous. 

Thinking back many years, when my first husband had a robbery in his store, the windows were covered with paper because of painting that week. It made it much easier for those guys to readily sneak in there with no notice.  

So yes, I think a business like Denny's needs to step up their maintenance repair department!