A very unexpected Jolibee drive through

Chalk this one up as a brief and wonderful happening. You see, I was driving along Ortigas on an early Sunday evening. With me was my family, and we had just come from Greenhills shopping center, having done some groceries in Unimart. I was not trying to find the most convenient route back home. Barbie also needed to stop by an ATM machine to get some allowance money for Bernice - which meant going in another direction.

I thought that since Ortigas avenue was not allowing cars to do a U-turn (and I though one convenient route was to do a U-turn, I decided to take a right at the next corner (where there is a Jolibee and Cafe France eatery) - the street itself is a sort of dead end... being a closed gate to a subdivision. I had the intent of using this dead end, and making a U-turn in it to allow me ot make a left witht he help of the traffic light, thus being able to go to the other side of Ortigas without having to make the U-turn in Ortigas - from there, I could take a service road leading straight to Wilson street, which was basically my intent as it represents the most convenient way home. Unfortunately, the dead end was busy with some kind of repair, so I went into the car park of  Cafe France to execute my U-turn.

It was at this point that barbie noted the Jolibee drive through menu and candidly mentioned to the kids (technically teens now) of how in years past when they were much younger, there would not pass a weekend without our going to Jolibee because it was what they wanted most. Well... suddenly, this discussion went to barbie realizing (and possibly voicing out what everyone was thinking) that it has been some time that we've had Jolibee - and suddenly, before we knew it, we were asking each other if they wanted Jolibee.

Needless to say, we all agreed and I maneuvered the car into the drive through. Barbie, Bryce and I had the Joli-hotdog, wich Bernice had the Cheese burger. Each of these came with Cokes (regular for the kids and zero for Barbie and me) and fries. And as I was driving home, we were enjoying our food - me whenever I had the chance to grab and bite my sandwich and fries while carefully driving.

Imagine that... just out of nowhere, we were reliving our old days as a family enjoying Jolibee. I guess the memories and experience of enjoying Jolibee as a family has been ingrained into our DNA, deeper than we realize... or it's just the act of wanting to experience the same feeling as before - even if just by a drive through. Needless to say, we weren't really hungry - but we enjoyed our meals. In fact, for some of us, it became dinner (or part one of our dinner).

Maybe this should be a possible plot for Jolibee's next commercial.