The Magnolia Diner is located in (guess!) Magnolia, NJ. It doesn't look much like the other diners, what with the absence of shiny and neon. It looks like it might have been a Moose Lodge or VFW hall at one point, but ever since I have been here, it has been a diner.

For a while when I used to have to work on weekends, I met my mom here for breakfast Saturday mornings before work. They have good food, and it's inexpensive, even by diner standards. I have only been back a few times in recent years, including once with Mike when no one ever came to wait on us after we were seated, and we got up and left. But that was an isolated incident in overall good memories.

The Magnolia Diner is also the only diner so far that asked me what I was doing there taking pictures. A young manager came out after I'd only taken two, and asked me why I was there. I smiled brightly, and answered that I was a student and I was doing a project about diners, two statements that are true separately, but somehow less than true when combined. He seemed a little unsure how to respond. I then added, "Don't worry, I don't plan on selling them," but even when I said it, I wondered if maybe he wasn't more concerned that I might be the harbinger of a law suit.

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