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Frequently after long night of drinking I need a little pick-me-up to recharge those batteries. Last weekend I was with Carzoli and we decided the best way to cap off a nice night at Maddy's was to have a fulfilling second dinner.

That night the choices were McDonald's and Taco Bell. Taco Bell sounded delicious as I usually can never turn down a good taco. In hindsight I guess we should have gone with McDonalds, not only for the delicious food, but for the elusive Monopoly pieces, of course. I know I'll never win, but it's just so darn fun to play.

As we were pulling up to the local Taco Bell establishment, something looked amiss. The place only had like two lights on, all the neon signs were unlit, and it looked like they were trying to keep away potential midnight snackers.

My suspicions were confirmed when we drove up to the drive-thru window. The cheery lady promptly greeted us with, "Good evening, welcome to Taco Bell. We are currently out of beef, chicken, lettuce, and our credit card machine is down." Ummm ok we thought. Carzoli and I just looked at each other in amazement. How does Taco Bell run out of beef? Isn't that one of the key ingredients to a taco? Maybe I'm crazy here, and have been missing out on the wonderment that is fish tacos. Carzoli leaned over and quipped back, "Is that everything?" The lady remarked back, "No, we still have steak." Oh OK....I guess we have no choice then. A couple steak tacos, with extra love.

Just a quick note, don't ever try the steak taco. As I bit into my reluctant choice, I was welcomed to tasteville with a squirt of some of the most rancid sour cream I have ever had the pleasure of tasting. Now normally I hate sour cream and recoil in its presence, but this stuff was much worse. They tried to spice it up with some gross lime flavoring. Not only was it horribly tasting, but there was so much in there, it was gushing out of its soft shell. I guess they were trying to compensate for the lack of lettuce. Even the sour cream loving Carzoli was appauled. Thankfully he took the remainder of the taco off my hands for a full refund. Thanks for that one buddy, I owe you a solid. Anytime you need to unload a tomato, I'm your guy.

On a more positive note, I heard it through the grapevine that if any player hits a home run to left field or left center in tonight's World Series baseball game, Taco Bell is offering one free taco to every person in America. Somebody pinch me! They might want to build a few extra toilets in anticipation for this event as well. You can never be too safe when it comes to Taco Bell ladies and gentlemen.