I’m not a fan of pie. I think savory pies are good, but if I am faced with a fruit pie (no pun intended) and a bowl of fruit, give me the plain fruit every time.

So when SBW dropped in and demanded that we “go out for pie” there were really only a few places in Bellevue that sprung to mind: any grocery store, a Denny’s, or a Coco’s. We started driving towards Coco’s and when we got there, there was a large, black plastic bag over their signage. The place looked dark and undesserted.

We drove in a fog of bafflement towards the other Coco’s, on the other side of town, only to find the same thing when we got there.

Apparently four of the Coco’s in this state have been closed for the past three or four months (goes to show you how much I value Coco’s). They were franchises, owned by the same person, and there’s no telling whether the person decided to go bankrupt, or just decided he was fed up with selling pie. In the meantime, Coco’s (the company) have re-opened a Federal Way Coco’s (the restaurant). At this point though, my time would be best spent by telling SBW to pick up a pie at one of the Marie Callender’s restaurants in Seattle, and stay on her side of the lake to eat it.