SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Springfield cafe that spent days playfully campaigning for a visit from John Goodman during Route 66 festivities didn’t quite get him through the door.
But it did get something just as meaningful: a divine phone call from the void.
The Sleepy Opossum Cafe — a vegetable-forward spot tucked into the Rountree neighborhood — had been posting increasingly dramatic (and increasingly funny) pleas on social media, joking it would “give a toe” to get Goodman to stop by.
Each door chime brought hope, each non-Goodman customer brought heartbreak. But then, on Saturday, May 2, when all hope seemed lost, fireworks blew off…