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.
Here in ‘Murica it’s Woden’s day!
The problem is the bun and fries.
Agreed.
I wouldn’t eat Wendy’s garbage if they gave it away for free—BOGO is double the misery.
Hell, I have a Doctorate in Astronomy/Astrophysics, finished in 1979, tried hard to get a job. No dice.
Could have been hired to cast horoscopes, thought that was distasteful.
It was the Carter Years and no jobs were available in Astronomy, so I left my dream and went back to Computer Programming.
Turned out OK because I started my own Software company and we did very well.
Will they do the same for Uranus?
Now you may find it inconceivable or rather very least a bit unlikely that
The relative position of the planets and the stars
Could have a special deep significance or meaning
That exclusively applies to only you
But, let me give you my assurance that
These forecasts and predictions are all based on
Solid, scientific, documented evidence
So you would have to be some kind of moron
Not to realize that every single one of them is absolutely true
Totally agree. Wendys has not been good since the great Covid Lockdown! Had a chicken sandwich and fries today and to awful to eat!
That’s great! I’m a retired machinist, member of the local astronomy club. It’s been a frustrating year for stargazing for me so far.
I tried taking a programming class once, I couldn’t get past BASIC, lol.
One of my daughters is taking programming at our local community college and doing very well. Her boyfriend is an IT guy.
Also the stars would need to be in fixed positions and never change their apparent orbits. They have changed position even in historic times due to precession or the wobble in the Earth's rotational axis.
The stars are also moving in orbits that do not circle Earth. So even with out precession their apparent location over time changes. Furthermore, the stars that make up the constellations are not in the same plane. Some 0f the stars in the constellation Orion are hundreds of light-years more distant than others
Astology is not scientific, not nearly. It can predict eclipse's, equinoxes and the like but that is not science.
Lastly we do have private truth in matters like this. Astrology is simply impossible.
Astrology is the realm of fools and the uneducated.
To try to put a bit of a break on the damned chicken or whatever the item of choice is for the commercial wars that seem to never end.
The only thing worse is the “buy OUR new drug commercials.
I was talking with My Doctor (for 11 years and now retired 😢) one day about all the commercials and He said “I’m going to write myself an Rx for that one that makes you be sitting in a claw foot tub on a hilltop next to your wife and relaxing.”
I really miss Him. Old school and common sense and he actually listened to what you were saying about what was wrong medically. Never once did he say “no that’s not what’s wrong with you” like all these a$$}{0£€$ now !!!
WTF is a boho?
I just want a chocolate frosty.
Loved my ‘68 Mercury (The God of Speed) Monterey.👍
Wendy’s quality has really dropped everywhere I’ve travelled since 2021. KFC and Arby’s are also getting pretty bad.
Meat is nasty tasting only Crystals is worse. Which is nothing but a White Castle with mustard.
“Pretzel Bacon Pub Cheeseburger”?
I won’t eat Wendy’s even for free. 😉
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