Everyday Randomness

There aren’t many people I meet in my daily life that know much about my blogging.  When I go out to eat or go shopping I don’t tend to announce that I’m going to review a product or service.  I just do it, and I love to share my thoughts and experiences on everything from the bag of potato chips I ate last night to the contact lenses Hubby tried, and even the horrible service I get at certain places.

Last night we went to Spanky’s Backyard BBQ for dinner, and the owners totally made my day.  We had called in an order, and when we went to pick it up the owner’s wife asked me if I had a blog, and if my name is Jenn.  We’re regular every weekend customers up there, but they don’t know us by name, just as the “Walhalla couple” that drives out of our way to eat there every weekend.

The owner came out and they explained they had Googled their new restaurant to see what they could find.  There are a couple of the normal local restaurant listings, but I had uploaded a photo of the restaurant, photos of the food we’ve ordered, etc.

I didn’t give them a full review, but they were so happy to see that I had even uploaded photos.  They told me it really made their day, and that made mine.

I’ve had a lot of local people who read my blog try new local restaurants after reading what I had to say about them, so word of mouth people.  That’s what we do, and it really does work.  I know personally I’m more likely to visit a place someone told me about over a place I see commercials for. I’ve always been the type of person who goes off everybody else’s experiences before trying something new.

Seeing how happy they were reassured me that even though I don’t get paid beaucoups of money to write about things I love or hate, it really does make a little bit of a difference to share my opinion…even if it just puts a smile on someone’s face!