eating out, misc

There are some who might say that kids have it better today over what we had 50 - 60 years ago.  In some aspects, they are right.  It is just angle you choose to use for viewing.  Take the bit about playing video games or messing with computers all day instead of going outside - or, those who are now involved in ORGANIZED sports all the way from 1st grade on up - or, MP3 players or thereabouts - or, well that is enough to start.   
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As a child we played outside - chase, hide, seek, throw, fall down, you pick the verb.  All of that might be fodder for future blugs, but not today.   I love the way "spell check" cannot handle the word "blug."  Blog, on the other hand is perfectly acceptable.  Why izzit?  Bug, Bog, Lug, Log are all fine words for sure.  Why accept BLUG?
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As I type, I have just had a great idea for a blog,  oops,  blug someday.  I write a paragraph with my hands moved one key to the right. Then, give a prize to the first person who figures it out.  mpe jpe snpiy yjsy?
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Eating out:  There are so many places to go now-a-days.   Do you want mexican food?  I bet Corsicana had 5 to 10 easily available.  Chinese?  I know of 4....or maybe 5.  Chicken?  You can peck your way to a fried feast at 8 different joints.  Dairy Queen, sandwich places, chain restaurants like Denney's and Chili's - Last week Corsicana got a Schlotskys.   We have our favorites.  Our Kentucky Fried Chicken place closed and was replaced by a Golden Chicken....not the same fine taste (original please). To me it was absolutely no surprise they folded.  When you went in the local KFC, it was like a circus - the hired help constantly yelling and playing around and being unprepared - happened every time I went in there.
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Reminds me of a Whataburger store in Austin just south of the 290 split.  Those people were clueless to what was going on.  I think the manager had a valid excuse.  They seem to hire mentally retarded help.  Not making fun here.  There were always 2 or 3 mentally challenged people working on each shift.  T'was an interesting place to visit.  You have to admire a leader that will put his success on the skills of mentally challenged folks.  He must be a Saint.
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Back in my h.s. days in Levelland, we had limited places to go.  As with everything, if you never had something, you don't know you missed it.  You might hear about a particular thing and THINK you miss it, but you don't know for sure until you have tasted the pie.  Take color TV for instance. We had black and white TV for years.  We didn't know how great color was.  Then we had color but did we have a remote control?  Now that was fine...remote control.  And color too.  As I remember it, when we lived in Crete, Nebraska, about 20 miles from Lincoln - that would be about 1949 ...  Lincoln had color TV on some programs.   We had a black & white set that was about 5 inches across.  What fun.  Then we moved to Odessa - no TV.
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Remote control:  My father took his 27" B&W TV set - the biggest in town - and installed a motor on the tuner.  We only had 13 channels on the dial and only 2 channels that worked:  11 KCBD  and 13 KDUB   (named after the owner Dub something).  Later Tech channel 5 came in to play.  It wasn't strong enough to reach Levelland from Lubbock.  So we would have to get up and rotate the tuner left or right.  So Hard.
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But with his electric motor on the tuner - it had a cord that ran to his recliner - flip switch and the tuner ran around to the proper channel.  He was innovative.
You might ask, what does this have to do with restaurants above.  Frankly, if  you can find the connection, tell me.   
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that's enough for now.  We will discuss Levelland eating establishments in a later BLUG.  Go spell check, Go.
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