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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Oh, How I Love McDonalds

I just returned from a road trip to Atlanta. McDonalds is always my oasis. Driving I-75 or the turnpike, I look for the Golden Arches.

Great place for potty breaks.

Great place for Diet Coke.

Great place for food.

But more than anything, it's that piece of home from town to town, state to state that comforts me.

I've been to McDonalds in every country I've visited, and every state. It's home away from home.

Thank you, Golden Arches.

Labels: Golden arches, I-75, McDonalds, traveling

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Friday, October 3, 2008

Visited my McDonalds again

Put the top down on the Cabrio and drove with Lola to McDonald's this beautiful morning. She likes it. :)

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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Just another McDonald's Saturday

Drove through today. Diet Coke taste so good after working out at the gym!

Labels: Diet Coke, McDonalds, refreshing

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Where everybody knows your face

Swung by McDonalds this morning for my usual - Diet Coke.

As I hobbled inside, the maintenance man grinned and waved. "How're you doing? Why are you hobbling?"

"Cat attack. Long story. But the cat lived."

He laughed.

Inside, the cashier was new to me, but from behind the grin I hear, "Hi!!"

I look up and the usual counter person is waving.

Yeah, sometimes you want go where everyone knows your face. ;)

Labels: Diet Coke, familiar face, friends, McDonalds

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Monday, February 4, 2008

Hope

The other morning I sat at McDonald's, semi-awake, slurping a DC, thinking of what I needed to do to finish my book edits. I was tired, but feeling good.

As I sat, a group of teens in trucks whipped into the parking lot. Rednecks. Three boys popped out of the first truck. White. Black. White.

It caught my attention. Maybe I'm still stuck in old mind sets that rednecks and blacks don't hang out. Keep a respectful distance.

The white boys were dressed in 4-H tight, skinny blue jeans. The black kid in low rider hip-hop jeans.

Another series of trucks pulls in. More kids hop out and gather at the first truck where they're messing with the stereo system. The McDonalds windows were rattling.

A boy in cami overalls and Larry-the-Cable guy sleeveless t-shirt joins the crowd. Another boy with a Confederate hat. He looked half-Latin, half-white, maybe half-black.

I watched enthralled. Something about them fascinated me. I thought how out of touch racial and government leadership in America is with today's teens. They're still talking like it's 1960 or 1970. And truth, maybe 20 years ago I wouldn't have witnessed such a scene, but it's 2008 and the next "generation" is becoming more and more color blind.

I felt hope. Not the kind of hope from my soul, but a God whispered hope. There is hope for our country in those teens and millions like them. Just like many of our current leaders who rejected authority and social norms in their teens and twenties, today's youth will do the same to them.

Current leadership still stuck in their spoiled mind set, we-know-it-all from the '60s are now the very leadership and ideologies they hated. They are the ones stuck in the past, out of touch, unwilling to change their ways.

Later, as I told Tony the story, I teared up. The hope is not of me but of the Lord. God has put hope in these young ones. I put my hope in God.

Labels: future, hope, McDonalds, teens

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

On a very cold Florida morning

I road my bike to McDonalds. The wind was cold, the sky blue and sunny. It's been so long since we've had cold weather, I couldn't resist my bike.

And, Tony has my car. Someone has his truck.

Saw Henry and Jane at McDonalds, but I couldn't stay. Need to get home to work.

Note to self: hard to ride bike with a Diet Coke. Falls over in basket.

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Friday, December 28, 2007

Friends at McDonalds

Went to McDonalds this morning to read and drink Diet Coke. Ran into Jane and Henry. Ended up talking to them instead of reading.

They are McDonald's patrons, too. They live in a near-by Bayside community.

Talked to long, but they are good company. Went to library to work an hour later.

Labels: friends, reading, talking

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