Aug 16, 2005 13:14
Since they announced plans to marry at a McDonald's drive-thru, where they fell in love four years earlier, Ken Sinchar and Lori Sherbondy have heard that and every other fast-food joke.
Just as he had done day after day, Sinchar rolled through the drive-thru in his white minivan on Monday night hoping to chat with "that blue-eyed brunette named Lori."
But this night was different. Sinchar rolled down his window, Sherbondy slid open hers and the couple grabbed hands as a district judge pronounced them husband and wife.
The first time he pulled through the Norwin Towne Shopping Center McDonald's, Sinchar was expecting to pick up a Big Mac, not a date.
"I didn't used to go for fast food, but I looked at that woman in the window, and wow! I came back every lunchtime after that," said Sinchar, a 38-year-old floor installer.
Sherbondy, 42, who's worked at the restaurant for eight years, said Sinchar made an impression, too.
"He's the only man I ever flirted with," Sherbondy said. "It got to where everyone in the store knew when it was 12:15, when my Hamburger Happy Meal Man was coming through."