Denied!

The ongoing quest for free ice cream continues, but today I let myself down, I let you down, and I let this blog down when I failed to get up early enough to be among the first 500 at the new Walnut Creek Haagen Dazs store.  We'd even been sent junk mail about it - a free scoop, and the chance to win a year's supply of ice cream ($480 maximum value.  I would not call that a year's supply).

Jack and Amanda came to visit for the weekend, and by the time I'd remembered and we'd wandered down it was late afternoon.  Still, we put in an order for a chocolate and peanut butter shake.  "We're not in the first 500?" I asked, the definition of optimism.  "No," replied the server tersely, "and shakes don't count anyway."  If I'm paying for this stuff, I expect more polite service than that...

But it is goooooood!

And for the first 500 dogs...