My son left his super-duper calculator that he uses for geometry at home today and needed it because his homework was stored on it.  Like I said, it’s a super-duper calculator.  When I was in H.S. in the early 80s we thought it was cool that calculators could work on solar power and sometimes even do more than add, subtract, multiply or divide.  His does all kinds of crap I can’t even understand well enough to describe, and I get insanely jealous every time I think about all the calculations and graphing I had to do by hand when I took geometry. Any way, he needed someone to bring his calculator to school.

Celeste and I ran it over to him at lunch time and then on the way home stopped at Backyard Burgers right off of 421 on Lewisville-Clemmons Road.  If you live anywhere in the Southeast then you simply must hit a Backyard Burgers.  It’s fast food, but the folks at Backyard treat it much better than that.  The burgers are very well made and the sides are always well cooked.  For instance if you opt for a baked potato instead of fries in your combo meal it will cost you about ten cents extra and the potato is invariably fresh, not a shriveled piece of mush that tastes like it was cooked a year ago.  And then there’s dessert.

I indulged myself with a baked raspberry cobbler and created my own a la mode by ordering a scoop of vanilla ice cream that I summarily plopped on the cobbler when it arrived at my table.  Oh, that’s right I forgot to mention that after you order you sit down and they bring your food to you.  Take that Wendy’s!

Combo meals will run you about $6.00 and include a sandwich, fries (or a replacement side) and a soda.  We ate at the height of the lunch hour and even though the place was packed we had our food in about five minutes.  On the way out of the restaurant Celeste noticed a sign on the door that says if it’s raining you can ask a teller to set you up with umbrella service and they’ll have an employee walk you to the car.  I’m telling you, it’s one of the best fast food operations going.