Greeting Card

Tonight I took my family out for fun times and good... times. I invited Mandi and her family to join us for awesome times, but she made up a quick lie and declined. She missed out on more than just outstanding company. After some errands we went out to dinner at Burger Supreme. I had the cheeseburger with fries. Then we went to Nickelcade which I have been told is for losers. Perhaps, but there is something about that hippety frog race game that keeps me going back for more. After we each shelled out a couple dollars in nickels and exchanged our hard earned tickets for trinkets of abiding value, we headed off to Coney's Frozen Custard with high hopes for a non-terrible daily flavor. I have a theory that Coney's saves their awful flavors for the weekend when they know people are going to come in anyway. If you are unaware of Coney's, here's the deal: They sell frozen custard and it is really good. Each day you have your choice of Chocolate, Vanilla or the flavor of the day. Some days they have awesome flavors like Dreamsicle or Lemon Chiffon and some days they have terrible flavors like Banana cream pie or Grodelated Walnut. Today's flavor was Caramel Cashew. I would have preferred raspberry or coconut cream but caramel cashew was acceptable. Inside the store we saw that their freezer had some strawberry cheesecake frozen custard from a few days before and we decided to purchase a quart of that instead of the caramel cashew. While Anne was paying for the custard, I filled my cup with water and a man came into

It's fortunate I had my cell phone so I could snap this shot

Coney's and was waiting behind Anne in line. When we sat down to eat the custard, I told Anne I thought the man in line was Orson Scott Card and she immediately got up and went over to him and asked him if he was. He acknowledged that he was indeed! I went over to talk to him for a moment and he said that I made his day by recognizing him. He was very kind and I tried to be courteous of his time by not gushing and telling him how much I love everything he's ever written. It was an exciting experience for me and I'm happy to have met him, even if it was briefly.