by Laura Conaway

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Waiting in Altoona, Penn.

E. Cathers writes from New Jersey:

Maybe you heard about Denny's restaurants giving away free Grand Slam breakfasts today.

Well, my husband and I thought we'd try them for lunch, but there was a long line of people already there, waiting in the snow to get in. We had no desire to join them, but we were already psyched for a lunch out, so we ended up at our local diner, buying a restaurant meal we wouldn't have otherwise. I heard one of the waitresses comment that it was unusually busy for a Tuesday—it made me wonder how many other people went out for meals elsewhere, rather than going home, if they couldn't get into Denny's.