How a Burger Place Wins Friends and Influences People

Out and About Burgers Ain't Ashamed of the Meaning of Christmas 

Okay before you go off on Christmas being all pagan and inappropriate for Christmas, just know I'm not having it. I figure if Christians want to celebrate Christ's birth without being commanded to in the Bible, that God might be pleased with this sort of feeble attempts to show Him our love for His great gift. It's a lot like how our little ones hoist their crayons and scratch out impressionistic artwork to show us. We parents and grandparents don't expect the art world to celebrate their pictures as masterpieces, but they're masterpieces to us and we proudly display these works of youthful art on our refrigerator art galleries.

That said, Sheila's chiropractor recommended a certain over-the-counter "medication" for pain for Sheila's chronic pain. Having found that it works, I take periodic trips downtown to the shop to pick up another box of gummies for my Sweet Baboo.  

Well, in a bit of inspired location selection for their new expansion Out and About Burgers shop, they put up a drive up shop right next door to the dispensary. I know! Can you say "munchies". They even have a walk-up window for their small burger place which is mostly parking lot and driveway. The little restaurant is the joint venture of some college business students from nearby Pierce Jr. College. They started years atio out in a trailer in the parking lot of a truck rental place on South Meridian Street. They hired fellow college students and soon there were lines of cars circled around the joint. The burgers, fries and onion rings were really really good and soon they had built a loyal customer base.

I went by the shop/dispensary for my wife's pain medication. On a whim, I dropped by Out and About's new location next door and picked up a couple of burgers. A young man with a clipboard met me in the parking lot and showed me to the walkup window. When they opened the window a few minutes after my order was placed they handed me my bag of burger goodness and I handed the guy a tip for the tip jar. When I turned around, the parking lot guy was there with a small plastic bag he was giving out to customers.

In the bag was a card and a lovely knitted candy cane ornament for our Christmas tree. On one side of the card was the familiar "Legend of the Candy Cane" explaining the meaning of the symbols incorporated into the candy cane.  On the other side, however was something totally unexpected for a business up here in the land of Happy Holidays, Kwantas and Winter Solstice dances in the woods out by the local volcano. It was a handwritten message of the sort people used to write 50 years ago. It said:

 

Greatest gift of love, Jesus-filled with joy,
peace, hope, mercy and grace.

Will you receive such a gift?

Merry Christmas!

Out and About
Burgers

These guy just earned my loyalty, especially since their food is so good. In an age where submitting to the herd in matters of faith (or rejection thereof) and politics is considered a virtue and wise business practice, it's refreshing to see honest people of faith who aren't afraid to be who they are. It was refreshingly honest and open to receive that Christmas ornament and declaration of faith with my cheeseburger. It tells me a lot about the trustworthiness of Puyallup's own independent excellentpurveyor of burgers.

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING IN AND OUT BURGERS HERE!
WE GROW OUR OWN!
I THINK THE ECLECTIC ASSORTMENT OF TEXANS WHO HAVE
RETIRED FROM THE ARMY AND AIR FORCE UP HERE HAVE BEEN
AN INFLUENCE FOR GOOD ON THE LOCAL HIPPIES.

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND AN OUTSTANDING NEW YEAR

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