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HOLLAND, MI A local man escaped certain death by starvation on Wednesday as he stumbled into the Arby’s on the corner of Waverly and Chicago Drive and ordered a big beef and cheddar combo. The man, Dale Jennings, 46, of Holland, could barely speak because of his weakened state. Steve Vos, 16, the courageous young man who took the order that saved Jennings’ life, told reporters, “He came in here all, like, sick looking and stuff. He couldn’t talk. It was a good thing our value meals are, like numbered, so he could just, like, hold up four fingers.”
Jennings reportedly hadn’t eaten since Monday. His wife, Shirley, who is visiting her sister in New Jersey, had left him a large amount of goulash, but he miscalculated his portions and ate it too quickly. He was then left to fend for himself for the rest of the week. Since Jennings was completely unaware of how to prepare any of the food that his wife had purchased and stored in their home’s pantry, he had been surviving on a half-empty bag of potato chips that he’d found in a cupboard, a can of aerosol cheese, and some low-fat ice cream—which he had stopped eating after he ran out of clean spoons.
Had Jennings not seen the Arby’s on his way home from work, he could quite possibly have starved—or perhaps died of malnutrition.
Jennings is now quietly resting at home, with enough tasty Arby’s roast beef sandwiches in his refrigerator to last until his wife returns on Friday.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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