Oh yeah.......BURGERTEX (I know, it's long, feel free to skip it.)

Dad's gonna write this post, I gave him permission only cuz I wasn't there to witness it.

For those that don't know, Austin has an incredible amount of restaurants. Each one has more character and better food than the next, and most aren't part of a big chain. I dare say that Austin may have more dining choices than the San Diego area even though it's smaller.
Well Kelly and I have been passing a place called BURGERTEX in a strip center west of us since the day we first arrived. It's more "rural" than the area we live even though it's probably not more than a mile away. Every single time we pass it, Kelly always says exactly the same thing, "BURGERTEX....we should try that place!" Finally one evening we were driving back from the city of Bee Caves (population 656....not to be confused with the city of Sunset Valley [population 365] which exists entirely within the southwest area of the Austin city limits and seems to consist entirely of a strip mall, yet they have their own police force. We know this because there is usually a patrol car and two officers parked on the sidewalk [for traffic control purposes one would assume].......you guessed it, in front of their strip mall. But I digress...)and we decided to stop and try BURGERTEX. The windows were tinted so we couldn't see inside. Once we were inside, it was too late to back out. We had entered a cavernous structure with seating for hundreds. And we were alone. There was no one in the place except for three smiling Chinese faces behind the counter, awaiting our order. During the long walk from the door to the counter I had plenty of time to take in the vista of empty tables disappearing off into the distance. I finally was able to make out a far wall and saw a small television bolted to the wall. And on a Monday night, during football season, in a burger join in Texas.....they had a soccer game on. A British soccer REPLAY complete with British announcers.
It was pretty much downhill from there. The food was good once you got past your chewing echoing through the empty building.
As we were leaving, we felt bad and brought our trays up to the counter. The old Chinese lady's eyes lit up as she asked, "Did you like it?" We muttered a generous, "Sure." She smiled widely and said, "You come back, right?" looking at us like the neglected nerdy 5th grader who always ate lunch alone and smelled liked musty baloney looked at us after ravenously opening the valentine we gave them (only because mom made us give one to everyone in the class, and judging by his nonexistent pile, all the other moms weren't like ours) and asked, "We're best friends now, right?" And when she looked at us like that and asked us that question, we felt that same queasiness in our stomachs and gave her the same noncommittal "Sure" we learned in 5th grade.......with our same 5th grade intent to never be seen there again.

Wow, Dad was pretty long-winded........sorry about that. If I had know he was gonna go on that long I wouldn't have said yes. And he didn't even have any pictures!!!