A Deerhead Miracle

Driving recently from Baltimore to NYC, I avoided the Del Mem Bridge in favor of lunch nirvana - Deerhead. At 6:03PM, I veered off 95 and onto 141 North. Interesting that the exit off 141 is under construction and it seems like it has been since I was 8. I quickly move past Ferris and memories of playing JV football with the Juvies, down the hill past Barley Mill, and into the Cannery. Into Deerhead - which has lost its charm in a recent remodel - and the guy says they are closed. I reach over the counter and grab his grease tattered Deerhead shirt and demand he put a double with everything on the grill or so help me. Apparently, the computers are down at Deerhead and he needs to close. Computers! Who needs computers?! 'It's the sauce' I tell him and he finally obliges, but forces me to eat outside and locks the door behind me while several other Wilmington veterans are turned away. It was a Deerhead Miracle.