Unfiltered Story #264971

Messages from a ghost restaurant?

Many years ago, one of my favorite restaurants offered a small “birthday gift” of a bowl of soup or salad if visitors signed up for that service. I signed up, and got an emailed certificate every year since then.

Several years passed, and the restaurant closed. They did not move or relocate … the owner disappeared, and the restaurant was vacant. Yet, I continued to get emailed “birthday gift certificates” for the nonexistent restaurant.

More time passed, and a new restaurant moved into the location. New name, new menu, new ownership. Yet, I continued to get certificates for the OLD restaurant, that did not apply to the new one.

The new restaurant did not last long. It too closed. Months passed, and yet another restaurant opened at the location. It has survived several years now … and I still get birthday gift certificates from and for the original restaurant, that has been gone for more than a decade now.