OK, this Krispy Kreme thing is just plain insane.
They’ve just opened up a Krispy Kreme doughnuts franchise in our neighborhood. Well, not exactly our neighborhood, but let’s say “one ‘hood over”. The funny thing is that the new KK is located across the street from my gym (24 Hour Fitness.)
The road that winds past the KK is currently shut down and detoured. Cops are out in force, since 4:00AM (and now it’s 9:30PM) directing the traffic of the continuous flow of doughnut maniacs. There’s been a half-mile line for their drive-thru window for seventeen hours now.
It’s frickin’ doughnuts, people!
There were people camped out like Star Wars geeks for the past week so they could be the very first one to get a Krispy Kreme doughnut. Just when I thought no one could be more pathetic than a camped-out Star Wars geek. Now I have more respect for the Star Wars geeks.
At least I can understand the Star Wars geeks. If you’re the very first person in line to see the latest movie, you can rest assured that no one else will see the movie before you and give away critical plot points. You can be safe in the knowledge that the next round of promo commercials won’t give away a critical scene or joke.
But a doughnut? Is the very first doughnut going to taste any different than the millionth doughnut? Is anyone going to give away the taste of the doughnuts? Will your doughnut taste any different if someone else tells you how good their doughnut tastes?
“Radical” Russ — what was that about the US being the most obese nation in history?…
