Wednesday night we went to dinner with my aunt and uncle for my mother's birthday. While waiting for our food my father starts discussing the new shopping center coming to Growing City. Evidently it is supposed to contain 13 (13!) new restaurants.

My father says, "How are they going to find 13 restaurants that they don't already have in Growing City?"

We've definitely got all the restaurants one could ever want, right? I mean there's a BW3's, several Chinese places, Dairy Queen, a few pizza places, KFC, Wendy's, a Mexican restaurant, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, a steakhouse, Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts, Cici's Pizza, Applebee's, Bob Evans, Perkins, sports grill/bar, Eat and Park, McDonald's, Burger King, Quizno's, Steak N Shake, and Ruby Tuesdays.

I want a Sonic, an Olive Garden, a Jimmy John's, a Panera, and a few more of the places my brother has in Toledo. Heck! Let ME pick the new restaurants. Now that would be great!