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                          Dining in at the drive-in

Bunny thought we should try the Cardinal Drive-In (sadly, no website), a
traditional drive-in burger joint just a few blocks north of The Sunset Motel
[1]. We arrived to a nearly empty lot (amazing [2], but we did arrive
significantly before noon so maybe that helped).

Now, you would think that being at a drive-in, we would be eating in the car,
but that would be too cliché—instead we ate in the dining room.

[And here I thought the Red Phone was reserved for Presidents and Batman, not
for average Joes to order food from the booth.] [3]


But to enmesh you in the whole drive-in theme, each booth had a phone where
you could place your orders. The clerk could barely hear us through the
device [4] though, and instead walked over to our booth to take our order.

The food was quite good but I was rather surprised that in this day and age,
there still existed a business that refused to accept plastic money. How
authentically traditional (not to mention archaic but I digress).

But other than that, eating in and ordering face-to-face, our experience at
the Cardinal Drive-In was exactly like eating at a drive-in burger joint.

[1] http://thesunsetmotel.com/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/07/02.1
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2015/07/03/phone-in.jpg
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YId_ArKyoYs/

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