text: Once upon a time I was a young lad with a powerful hunger for life and meat I used to love going to Chuys Tri tip sammiches FTW I would have pronounced had FTW not still carried the Tupac meaning back when I liked ityeah the good old days How the mighty have fallennnAfter a trip to Ikea that went a bit too late to get my lingonberry fix my companion and I were famished One of the first places my navigation brought up in the area was Chuys Hey right on my generation digs nostalgia nnThe folks working were nice enoughI love the idea of serve yourself all you can eat chips and salsa I forgot they have a bar hey things are looking gooduntilnnI do not know if the stale chips just put me off enough to realize that Chuys looks like my exs parents bedroom after they refinanced their house to take out an equity loan in order to make their bedroom look like a Margaritaville restaurant Parrot Heads They did a halfassed job and so did Chuys It lacks the charm I remember the old Metro Center location havingnnThe chips were stale the salsa was lame the tritip was dry The service was ok but apparently Wednesday night is the night to visit your buddy who works at Chuys and get your drink onI do not know maybe it is just short of payday and you could not afford your meds so this seemed like a good idea at the time nnPoint being I had to got to listen to a loud conversation about a guys terrible luck He got pulled over speeding while hauling a trailer that he knew had no lights and got ticketed for everything he was doing wrong Next day his wife got mad at him and busted a window in their house later she burned his trailer down ater again while partying he accidently hit the panic button on his friends house alarm causing the police to come to their rescue only to find men with a pile of coke entertaining a hooker you are not unlucky bro you have bad judgement and worse taste in womennnSigh If you dragged me to Chuys I would go I guessmaybefor childhood Nathans sake