Dont eat at IHOP

My Dear Ukrainian Witch, the acronym means International House of Pancakes. If you don't know what an American means by a pancake, you could search for it online--too much to explain here.

FM--yeah, and then we'd go git all drunk and stoned, and find a big hill, ya know? Then we'd take turns standing on the back of the wheelchair--ya gotta get the balance thing just right, and lean forward considerably to maintain the balance above the natural center of gravity of the chair. One a good hill, we estimated we could hit between 30 and 40 mph by the bottom of the hill. A course, my bro had an Everest and Jennings, the Rolls Royce of wheelchairs--the frame was made from aircraft struts.

Why, you..... you flapjack flippin,' too-busy-to-explain-nothing son of a gun..

Speaking of getting drunk, IHOP was always a great place to go in your college days, after being out all night with your friends. You could always drag yourselves into an IHOP for breakfast and sustenance once the sun came up.....

Not that I ever did stuff like that....

Those Bank of America folks sure sound helpful though!! You had luck there. Banks not always so helpful. Good on them!

(And good on you, of course!!)

set sed

Somebody once said that you can only believe about half of what set tells ya, but you never know which half. Im gonna say that
1You probably dont even have a brother

2If you did, the wheelchair story is bogus

3If the wheelchair story is true , then standing on the back of it while stoned and "doing" an incline is probably bogus

4 If thats true-why aint you dead?

We used to grab shopping carts and hang onto them from a moving car (( one guy in the front and one in the back)).We would take the shopping cart out onto a hiway and get up to about 60mph. The shopping cart got amazingly stable after about 35 mph. Wed let the shopping cart go and itd pass us doing maybe 60+.

All in the interests of physics (inelastic collisions). Once one guy did volunteer to ride in the cart. (He was not of the finest minds of our shire). He rode the cart into a ditch and broke his collar bone and arm from flying in the air. He too wound up in a wheelchair for many months. (That is no ****) seeing how you was in the service of our country, you are fully aware of the powerful oath that "this is no ****" conveys

Ah, I see!
Thank you, doggie person!
Well, blast their eyes, that's all I can say!

How about suing them for mental distress?

IHOP makes shitty waffles. I like em crispy and with anutty sweet flavor like the old fashioned "funnel cakes" wed get at country fairs in the Dutch country. IHOP's waffles taste just like their pancakes (they probly use the same damn batter)

I like sunny side up eggs and theres an IHOP down near Portland that never will make your eggs sunny side up. they claim its unhealthy for me. DOUCHEBAGS

Wooohoooo!!!!

Either I've gotten way pickier or their food has gotten multiply more terrible from when I used to like to go there, probably in the sixties/seventies. Their bacon is sliver thin.. well, I won't go on and on. Cheap ingredients, prices not that reduced compared to other breakfast type places that serve much higher quality food.

I agree with nimh that Bank of America has done well by you, had thought about mentioning that but then went off on my foodie thoughts.

Agreed, you really got excellent service from them. And, of course, congrats to you! YAY!!!!!!!

You mentioned you went to the district manager...I'd go up from there.

I can't believe they'd want to take the negative publicity of something like this.

Seriously, you are providing the proof they charged you, your credit card statement.

What exactly are they countering that with besides "uh huh"?

Surely they know who was on that night, who rang you up, etc.
They know who has access codes to use the register.

Have you called the better business bureau and the austin chamber of commerce? Register complaints with them.

I'd find out the names of everybody who was anybody at IHOP and send them all copies the a letter of complaint.

HEY! Call or write to John Kelso at the Austin American Statesman....he'll personally go down to IHOP with his buddies Skeeter and Carl and the 3 of them will TRY to order $9K worth of food, and write about the tale.

Really, that's not a half bad idea, he loves stuff like this.

The food at IHOP sucks. The only point to going to IHOP is that one has been out all night drinking, and now needs some place to eat where the food isn't too expensive, and is sufficiently bland an uninteresting as not to induce worship of the porcelain goddess; or, one is so stoned that one wants two of everything on the menu, and reacts as though it were mana from heaven (this latter condition applied to my brothers and i in our decision-making process).

Wheelchairs of the type which one buys or has custom-built (as was the case with my brother, who, before the accident, stood just over six feet tall, and therefore would not have been comfortable spending his life in a "one size fits all" chair) have two horizontal struts on either side below the axle which project to the back, and which one who pushes the chair employs for leverage to raise the front guide wheels up to clear a kerb or a raised platform of some kind. (The notion of negotiating steps with a wheelchair would be a bit of idiocy--it is always easier to pick the person up, carry them up or down the stairs, and then set them down while you fetch the chair.)

So, when one is young (and concomittantly foolish), one is apt to use the projecting struts to tip up the front of the chair, negotiating a kerb, and then to give the chair a push and hop up on the struts for a brief ride. It is but a short step from there to, while under the influence of spiritous beverages, conceive of taking a somewhat longer ride. With drunks, the possiblities for improving up the occasion (a slope in a parking lot, a sloping street, culminating in a good, steep hill in a park) are immediately obvious.

One added advantage is that the polezei are likely to overlook one's more outrageous behavior if one promises to go immediately home and desist from further distrubances of the public peace. No cop wants to run in a cripple if they can avoid it.

Yes, I'll boycott them for you. I won't go into one for the next few years. We've got to stick together.

excelllllllent...

We used to call IHOP...I-Barf after having many a late-night jaunt. How many times I tested out the limits of my liver's toxin-filtering capacity. Glad they had such big poorly-lit parking lots. I still fondly recall the "halos" (drug-induced) that surrounded the heads of the waitresses (some with more than one tooth) as we attemtpted to order an "I-barf Special"

HA!

Ooooohhh the memories.


18-22 I was a raving drunk.
At the tail end of my 4 year binge, I was at 1 gallon of vodka every other day.
Ihop fed my alcohol driven body 99.9999999 % of the time.

Their ceilings would have pencils stuck in them because I thought it was damn funny to be able to throw them with a sharpened tip, and watch them stick.
Their toilets often recieved bountiful deposits from me, and flasks of vodka were snuck into the crafts of OJ on a regular basis.

No wonder I hate them..

your waitresses had TEETH?

you must have been to a high class IHOP..



Another nickname it has in our household is I-Slop

I'm into the solidarity movement, but I would say in fairness that I haven't been to an IHOP in 25 years..maybe 30. Hardly an effective strike move.

Perhaps, though, I can go into one and loudly proclaim...this food sucks?

I must have had a premonition about this: I haven't been in a IHOP in over ten years. Does that count as a boycott?

Seriously, chai is correct. You need to write a one page letter of complaint to the District Manager and his/her boss with copies sent to wherever the corporate headquarters of the President are. Request that a review of the situation be made and the results of that review be sent to you. Demand that you receive a letter of apology from the local personnel involved.

As for the rest of us, anytime you use a credit card wherein it leaves your immediate surroundings (ie restaurants, bars, bistros) check your credit card balance report over the next week online to make sure the correct amounts have been charged. I've found more than five erroneous, bogus or double-charges in the past ten years or so.

Joe(wadda mean I brought two $157.80 meals three days apart?)Nation

I check my account every morning when I wake, and once before I go to bed just because I know 'mistakes' can happen.

I am really considering writting something about this.

I just dont think I should have had to do everything I did, and be without MY money for 7 days due to someones mistake.

I understand that mistakes are made, but in a situation like this-
an 8 dollar charge, accidently made into an 80 dollar charge due to a fat finger is completely understandable.

An 8 dollar charge turned into a 9 thousand dollar charge is unacceptable .