Greetings from YourHub.com World Headquarters.
Nov. 29, 2005, was a day like any other day here at the office: We were all working to get the YourHub.com print edition finished before our 2:30 p.m. deadline, making sure all the i's were dotted and the t's were crossed.
Around noon, Charmaine, who is our Community Assistant for Columbine, Conifer, Edgewater, Evergreen, Golden, Ken Caryl and Lakewood, announced that she was going to walk over to the Quizno's on 14th Avenue to redeem her sandwich punch card.
You see, Charmaine had made a commitment to eating at Quizno's, and not just because it's only two blocks from the office and she doesn't like to walk very far when it's cold out. A little over a month ago, she picked up a punch card -- buy 10 sandwiches and receive the 11th one free.
We all know how these punch cards work; most of the time, we get the first punch and forget about them, or lose the card after a couple punches, or we don't go back to the same restaurant often enough, and by the time we're anywhere close to the 10 punches, the card has expired.
But not Charmaine.
Yesterday was a day of reckoning for the Quizno's Subs franchise.
I followed along to get a photo when the whole thing went down, just after 12:15 p.m., for two reasons:
1) I think it's quite funny to make a big deal out of a free sandwich, and
2) It's what we call a "Milestone."
At YourHub.com, we have a category called Milestones, where we want you to share your good news whenever someone you know does something worth noting.
Here are the categories:
Anniversaries
Awards
Birthdays
Births
Deaths
Engagements
General Milestones
General Recognition
Graduations
Holidays
Moving
New Homes
New Jobs
New Neighbor
Retirement
Reunions
Weddings

Unlike big-city newspapers, where you have to be famous, an elected politician, or rob a liquor store to get your picture in the paper, we set the bar at a pretty attainable level: Have a baby, move into a new house, turn 13, or get your driver's license, and we'll make you a little bit famous. (I admit that a free sandwich is not that impressive, but my birthday isn't until Jan. 16, and I needed a good example of a milestone.)
Click here to get started.
Don't know how to begin?
E-mail me here or call me at 303-892-2492 and I'll walk you through it.
Have a great day.
-Brendan Leonard, Community Journalist