Local Landmark Hones His Jedi Skills

A roadside eatery halfway between where I grew up and where I now live has had this kind of random super huge cowboy holding an equally huge burger my whole life. It is traditional in my family to say "HI!" loudly as you pass and to make sure he is still holding onto the giant burger. This photo is for scale.

Lately when we drive past, we have noticed that something has happened to the burger, which he used to balance right on his hand. Now it is kind of floating by his lower arm, leading to much speculation. Devastatingly Handsome thinks it is affixed with a bit of DAP but the Bananalets think it is his Jedi powers finally coming into their own.

In any case, we all agree it would be a terrible thing if this burger fell on you. And still I braved taking the photos for my loyal blog readers.  :)

Balanced Diet, Unbalanced Memories

:-P


Sometimes I wonder. 


On the way home from church tonight Miss Dance and Mr Music were reading a book of Clean Jokes. Mr Music read the one about the man who said he was eating a balanced diet and had to go on to explain to his friend that the reason was because he is learning to be a tightrope walker. 


So, for no reasonable reason, I immediately thought of what would that mean? a burger in one hand and a shake in the other. And not just any burger and shake, I could actually taste the ones from Shelton's in Chicago. The place that was in the old movie Risky Business. A place I only ate at twice, and not for over 25 years.


Those burgers and shakes are really good.


And I also have loved two other burgers in my life - the ones at Steak'n'Shake when I was little and we would visit our grandparents who lived just outside Orlando and we would eat lying on our bellies in the back of their VW squareback which smelled very vinylly in the Florida heat (those burgers tasted better than the ones they sell now); and the ones the Red Barn used to make that were called Barnbusters. Their ad was, "When the hungries hit, hit the Red Barn." Love it.


I am feeling like Wimpy now: "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."