Posted on 05/03/2023 1:29:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If your day is going wrong in a thousand little ways — whether you sent an email to the wrong person, your printer seems to be permanently offline, or your mail was all delivered to the wrong address — it's not you. It's Mercury. Today is the start of three weeks of mistakes, miscommunications, and minor mishaps, all courtesy of that little red planet. And while it can't do much about the planetary alignment, Wendy's is at least here to make your Mercury retrograde a little brighter with free food.
Mercury will be in retrograde through Sunday, May 14, and according to Astrology Zone, all of us may be affected in some small way (if you believe in that kind of thing). Since Mercury is the planet that rules all forms of communication, the site says that we should all be careful when writing and speaking and probably shouldn't "make any important moves," like signing a contract, buying a house, or planning a trip.
We apparently can't avoid whatever mishaps this whole Mercury thing may cause, but Wendy's wants to give us all something to help us through it. From today, Friday, April 21, through May 14 — the entire time Mercury is in retrograde — Wendy's will be serving up a "Mercury Menu" with BOGO faves and freebies on orders placed through the Wendy's app.
Stop Everything, Wendy's Chili Will Soon Be Available in Grocery Stores You can score a BOGO $1 premium sandwich (like the Pretzel Bacon Pub Cheeseburger) with any purchase made through the app. From Monday, April 24, through Sunday, April 30, customers can pick up a free Crispy Chicken Sandwich with any purchase. The deal for the week between Monday, May 1, and Sunday, May 7, is a free six-piece Crispy or Spicy Chicken Nuggets with any purchase, and the Mercury Menu wraps up with a free Hot & Crispy Fry of any size between Monday, May 8 and Sunday, May 14.
Again, these deals are only eligible on orders made through the Wendy's mobile app, and all of them require an additional purchase to collect the $1 BOGO deal or the free items. (And you can't collect any of these deals if you place a mobile order through any other app, including any other food delivery services.)
Here's hoping that nothing goes terribly wrong for any of us over the next few weeks. And, once we hit mid-May, we can't blame Mercury for any of our mistakes, at least not until its next period of retrograde begins on Wednesday, August 23. Fingers crossed that Wendy's will be there for us then, too.
Astrology is the only thing dumber than Democrats. No human in the 21st century should believe it.
Mercury is a week late for members of my family. Two lost their jobs within a day of each other, and their main car needed big maintenance suddenly. When it rains, it pours.
Astronomical face palm.
Mars is the red planet. Mercury is dark gray, which is why it appears white in the sky with no obvious hue.
Why would a fast food company think it’s a good promotion?
Better than a guy claiming he’s Venus.
Aw, that sucks! Sending up a little prayer that the ship rights itself very soon.
Right! I’m an amateur astronomer, I can’t tell you how many times having a casual conversation about astronomy with acquaintances, the word “astrology” comes up. It frustrates me sometimes…😖
Well, it may be the only way some of them know the planets.
It’s a scheme to get people to download their app.
Eating at Wendy’s is as dumb, Nasty tasting, heart attack on a bun. Or a Quad Bypass.
America has been ‘in retrograde’ since July 22, 2009, when President Obama announced to the nation that ‘Police Acted Stupidly” by arresting some black professor having a drunken, fussy meltdown when he was locked out of his home.
Ever since then, openly disrespecting police or any figure of authority seems to have become more frequent (in our country) than before that time.
At least this is being posted on Mercury’s day, Wednesday (mercoledi/mercredi/miercoles).
Eating Wendy’s food would be ‘terribly wrong’.
It does. It was a harsh week. Everyone is moving forward, and trying to take things in stride. Appreciate the prayers! Those will always help!
The beer summit professor has a series called “Finding Your Roots” which runs on PBS...I think they are just showing re-runs lately. They are always about celebrities, usually blacks (or people who didn’t know they had a bit of black ancestry), but the most recent program featured Andy Cohen and Nina Totenberg. So usually Gates uses the program to talk about slavery but that program allowed him to talk about the Holocaust instead. I think Totenberg was the author of the infamous “kneepads” remark in 1998.
Astrology has only one useful function, but it is useful: it can serve, as it were, as a road map of the night sky, in an “if it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium” kinda way. That is to say, if I were to look up tonight and get a good view of Pollux (the leftmost of the pair) and Castor, I can have a good guess that that bright object I’m seeing below Pollux and to its left is likely Mars (as indeed it is at this point in the calendar).
Recently they had Angela Davis on, and much to her chagrin, she found out she had some of the snootiest white backgrounds of anyone. Her ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and the other side were large slave owners.
Through Wendy’s “app.” No thanks, you have no access to my data.
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