Tuesday, July 22, 2025

T Stands for Grumpy Clerk, the Beach, and a Smash Burger



After Saturday's washout, Sunday turned out to be a decent day. Not a great beach day. It was a little on the cool side, but at least it wasn't raining. 

Our first stop before the beach was lunch at a sandwich/pizza shop in Wells, the next town over from Ogunquit. On the menu board was a Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwich. Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce a favorite sandwich of Teague. She ordered it and the Counter Clerk snapped at her, "We don't have that!" She ordered a regular turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and mayo

I felt like I was in the Seinfeld episode where there was a particular way of ordering soup from the Soup Nazi.


I ordered a Crispy Chicken Sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and yellow mustard. I also ordered an iced tea and a bag of chips. He grunted at my order, but didn't yell at me.

After lunch, we headed to Ogunquit Beach. It was still a little early in the season so there weren't many people on the beach, and it was later in the afternoon, and the tide was coming in so half the beach would be underwater.

We found a spot by the wall to set up so we wouldn't have to move our stuff every half hour as the tide came in.


I watched the antics of a sparrow hunting and pecking for some goodies. I've never seen a sparrow on the beach before.


One of the things I forgot to take with me was my beach chair. I walked right by it and didn't give it a second thought until I was loading my stuff in Teague's car. No biggie. She loaded her husband's chair into the car. He was participating in his annual field day for Ham radio operators, and she said he wouldn't need his chair, but he did. Oops. She took a picture of us so he could see that we actually used his chair.


The water was too cold to go swimming, but we did stick our toes in the water.


Later that night, we went to dinner at the Brickyard Hollow Brewing Company. Last year (or maybe the year before) we had a fabulous Margherita pizza. This time around we ordered hamburgers. I had an Arnold Palmer and a Maple Bacon Smash Burger. 

Smash Burgers seem to be all the rage though I don't really get it. This burger consisted of two hamburger patties that were flattened on the grill. The result was two dry hamburger patties. By smashing them flat like paper, you lose all the juicy goodness.

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6 comments:

  1. I don't understand why people in the hospitality business think they can be rude to their customers. I know everyone has off days, but really, if you can't say something nice, keep quiet.
    I loved the Jerry Seinfeld clip.

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    1. He could have just said, Sorry, that item is not available in a calm, normal voice instead of yelling at her. I wonder who put a burr on his shirttail?

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  2. It took me a minute to realize that you weren't talking about this past weekend. I'm with you when they smash the burgers. I guess if you like them well done. And other fad I guess. And that's a great photo of you and Teague. You look like you're having a blast, as how many trip should be. This was a fun post CJ. Enjoy this beautiful day and hope it's a happy T day.

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  3. So good to see you CJ and Teague!! That Smashburger.. wow! I think i would have taken that bacon off and saved it for breakfast...lol Hugs! deb

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    1. There was a lot of that crispy, mapley, bacon goodness.

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