Sunday, August 03, 2003
... Scenes from a road trip...
There is a Cracker Barrel at nearly every exit. Who are all these people that keep 1.2 million Cracker Barrels in business?
We saw a pick up truck in Knoxville, TN that had a porno scene airbrushed on the back of his pick up truck -- two busty babes in a beach scene. Both were popping out of their bikinis. As we pulled up closer, I realized this was the guy's work truck! He was some sort of contractor. Can you imagine your contractor pulling up to your house with the porno pick up truck?
The waiter at the Outback steakhouse in Harrisburg, PA started his spiel by saying, "as you may not know, all of our food does come spiced. If you would like it with no spice, please let us know in advance." I just wonder how many central Pennsylvanians have sent back their steak because it was "too spicy"? By the way, all it had on it was a little black pepper...
We ate at Applebee's on the first night (it was the only thing open that late as we had lost an hour going from the Central time zone to the Eastern time zone). It was every bit as horrible as we expected. The weirdest things was that the restaurant was populated by Elvi... guys with Elvis haircuts. They were all young too. Hmmmm.....
At one point John and I were talking about past times of loneliness and then I said, "well, we don't have to be lonely anymore.. we have each other." Then I thought about it and realized that John doesn't have to be lonely anymore, but because he is ten years older than I am and has a shorter life expectancy because he is a male, I WILL be lonely for something like 16 years after he is gone. What did he say to that?
"you won't be lonely, honey... I'll come back as a ghost and help you make tacky pottery!"
The people at Applebee's were surprised to hear me cackling over my crappy food...
more to come.
There is a Cracker Barrel at nearly every exit. Who are all these people that keep 1.2 million Cracker Barrels in business?
We saw a pick up truck in Knoxville, TN that had a porno scene airbrushed on the back of his pick up truck -- two busty babes in a beach scene. Both were popping out of their bikinis. As we pulled up closer, I realized this was the guy's work truck! He was some sort of contractor. Can you imagine your contractor pulling up to your house with the porno pick up truck?
The waiter at the Outback steakhouse in Harrisburg, PA started his spiel by saying, "as you may not know, all of our food does come spiced. If you would like it with no spice, please let us know in advance." I just wonder how many central Pennsylvanians have sent back their steak because it was "too spicy"? By the way, all it had on it was a little black pepper...
We ate at Applebee's on the first night (it was the only thing open that late as we had lost an hour going from the Central time zone to the Eastern time zone). It was every bit as horrible as we expected. The weirdest things was that the restaurant was populated by Elvi... guys with Elvis haircuts. They were all young too. Hmmmm.....
At one point John and I were talking about past times of loneliness and then I said, "well, we don't have to be lonely anymore.. we have each other." Then I thought about it and realized that John doesn't have to be lonely anymore, but because he is ten years older than I am and has a shorter life expectancy because he is a male, I WILL be lonely for something like 16 years after he is gone. What did he say to that?
"you won't be lonely, honey... I'll come back as a ghost and help you make tacky pottery!"
The people at Applebee's were surprised to hear me cackling over my crappy food...
more to come.
