Just so you know.....you can't drive a 10 foot kayak trailer through a Bojangles drive-through. After a very successful day of kayaking with Catawba Land Conservancy today, mom and WB decided to reward ourselves with some good ol Bojangles chicken. Because nothing can destroy the good things kayaking does for you like fried chicken.
After we delivered our order to the drive through speaker, we slowly made a wide turn to make sure the trailer did not run up on the curb. Slowly, slowly......made that turn like a boss! Then the sound of scraping metal against wood....and the realization that the top of our 10 foot trailer had somehow become lodged under the awning over the speaker. Couldn't back up, couldn't pull forward, we were well and truly hung up. With a line of cars behind us in line.
WB, being the savvy 12 year old he is, slunk down in his seat so that he wouldn't be seen. The Bojangles worker taking out the trash started laughing and pointed out I was stuck. Bless him, he got help, climbed up in the trailer and lifted the awning off of us, got the line of cars to back up, and helped us move our wounded pride to a safe place.
We kept hearing a voice yelling, "Hey lady! Hey lady!" We weren't sure whether to cut and run or continue to seek Bojangles' forgiveness and Cajun goodness, but we glanced back to see the drive through worker hanging out of the window, waving, asking if we still wanted our food. WB said he was hungry and we couldn't afford to ruin another drive through, so we nodded and parked nearby. We headed toward the front door, but the drive through lady yelled again, telling us to come on over to the window. So....we had to stand in line at the drive through, behind the cars we'd already ticked off.
Moral of the story? I'm not sure, but that was some hard-earned chicken.
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