Miffed

I have been hearing about "Free Cone Day" at Ben and Jerry's for quite some time. I read a coupon mom's blog and she had mentioned it about 3 weeks ago-so I put it on my calendar at school. All my students were excited to remind me yesterday morning that it was free cone day. I immediately was in a better mood. There is nothing better than ice cream, except free ice cream that is normally expensive. Then I read Lindsay's blog and saw where she had already cashed in on her free ice cream. I texted John and told him to get excited about Ben and Jerry's. We planned to go there after dinner at 7. We get Will fed, loaded him up in the car, and drove to the Summit...seeing as how we gave up sweets for lent we are practically clicking our heels as we make our way to the door. Only to find a sign that says, "We are not participating in the Free Cone Day this year." Excuse me...what??!! You are a Ben and Jerry's Right? And Ben and Jerry's is having free cone day today, right? So how do you just choose to not participate. Apparently, Ben and Jerry's is a franchise so the individual managers can make decisions such as these. The kids working there told us that the manager said he couldn't afford to give out free ice cream all day. It seems the downturn of the economy is affecting us all, even Ben and Jerry's. John and I were determined to eat some ice cream-but opted for Bruster's instead. Not only to prove a point to Ben and Jerry's that we were not going to give them business if they were not going to participate in a NATIONWIDE give away, but mostly because we like Bruster's better. Except that I was miffed again, this time at Bruster's because they did not have Mint Oreo last night. That has to be against the Bruster Rules.