All I wanted was a salad. I’ve been living on popcorn and bananas for two days while I rebuilt Windows and Microsoft Office. Something green sounded really good. Also the sun was shining.
Back Yard Burger apparently went on break and just left the people in the drive-through to sit and wait on her return.
McDonald’s was stacked up so I tried to go in and order at the counter.
But the door was locked. Also they don’t even have salads anymore.
I somehow drove right past the Wendy’s on Yates.
Is it even still there?
So I ended up in Germantown. They were out of the salad I wanted but the one I ended up with was quite good.
The lettuce was very fresh and the chicken was still hot. The tea was also freshly made but they were out of straws so I’m waiting until I get home to drink it.
I mean, my antivirus software assassinated my laptop last week so I’m not very trusting of the cosmos right now. Gravity could fail at any moment.
The first quiet spot I found to rest and eat lunch happened to be Germantown Cemetery.
I like dead people. They are sometimes surprised to see me but they never turn me away and they don’t bug me too much. I see one guy is a Mason. Another has a plinth but no monument. Maybe that is the monument.
Another has a fine looking obelisk but I will have to return to investigate when it’s not so marshy. The recent storms have left piles of debris in the parking lot that look like giant wads of freshly spat tobacco and I am reluctant to tread there.
Plus I have three more hours of CNN in Ukraine to edit.
The dearly departed glance at one another and, one by one, slowly fade from view. And I know what they’re thinking: extra greeters will be needed in Europe’s corner of Heaven tonight. So that’s where I’m sending all the spare beats of my heart for today, just in case it will help.
Photo by Steve Masler, June 19, 2015.
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