The Story of the Amazing Burger King Coupons
This is a weird story to tell but it's
something I've always wanted to write about and finally, 11 years
later, I finally get to do so in the proper venue. One day after
work, I went to the local library which was common practice for me.
I'd sit there, go online or read a book and be left alone. It was
pretty relaxing and since I didn't have a girlfriend and
responsibility at all, I had nothing else to do other than smoke
cigarettes and watch old copies of New Adventures of He-Man. Now,
that I think about it, being 20 totally sucked. If I ever get a time
machine, I should go back and smack my 20 year old self around for
being such a obnoxious, lazy bum. And when I say obnoxious and lazy
take a look at me circa 2003...
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| I thought this was a cool look at a convention. |
Yeah. Tell me you don't want to smack
me. Anyway, so there I was at the library one day after work, just
chilling out with a book and my portable cd player and I get up to
leave when I stop by the used book section to see if any good videos
or books were for sale. Not today, sadly. I was prepared to walk away
when something caught my eye. Something just sitting there,
collecting dust. Now, before you question it, I've come into this
library at least 3 times at week and every day I go by the used book
shelf and never ONCE have I seen this item. So I'm guessing either
some old lady had been using as a bookmark or Doc Brown fired up the
Delorian from 1989 and left this amazing artifact just for me. Either
way, I grabbed it and walked out. My mind wondered to how it got
there but I was more enthralled to discover that it was obviously
meant for me to discover and cherish. What am I talking about?
Yup. Old Burger King coupons from 1989.
One used. The other three remained. Now, the taunt of attempting to
use these at a local Burger King was always there just to see how it
go over with the workers but I never did. Three coupons that offered
2 burgers and fries for 2 dollars, a free whopper or chicken sandwich
and 99 cents for a delicious breakfast sandwich. My gosh, I've always
said Burger King has been the leader of addicting fast food, but with
these deals, you can expect a burger fueled stampede back in the day.
I'm just hoping it resembled one of those old Royal Rumble posters.
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| Just imagine this rushing into a BK with a bunch of coupons. |
Finding these coupons definitely made
my day and remained on my miscellaneous pop culture goofiness shelf
for years. I can't explain it much better than it was just a very
random and weird thing to discover.
Sadly, before the move to New York, I
went through boxes to find what excess odds and ends I could sell and
further discovered that the coupons were destroyed and had to throw
them away. Apparently years ago my cat Booklet decided that since he
couldn't cash in on the deals, he'd at least try to eat the coupons
themselves. I cant say I blame him. If I wasn't able to digest
burgers and fries, I'd take my anger out whatever was in front of me.
Thankfully, the scans, remain and forever archive it's existence.
Geez, now I'm totally jonesing for a
burger...
-Chad
