Let me make something perfectly clear
QMS,
First, thank you for coming down and visiting and helping keep Florida green. Also, thank you for not driving slow in the fast lane and especially for not moving here. I was 18 years old before I learned damn and yankees were two different words.
Hey, I am just trying out my new found freedom of being able to throw out insults without fear of daddy stopping the car. It feels good enough.
You are correct, the Rat influences the town, much the same way as the car factories influenced Detroit or the steel mills influenced Pittsburgh back in the day. Before the Rat there was Big Citrus that ran us. Every place has someone in charge. Since we manufacture fun hopefully things will end better here.
I do want to clear up some things. We DO have culture and we DO have very wonderful restaurants that are not franchises. We hide them from you. I just enjoyed Second Friday at the Quantum Leap Winery near Mills and Nebraska. Great local winery and this month the food truck was fantastic Greek food. Next week we will enjoy Third Thursday in Thornton Park where for 10 bucks you can enjoy as much wine and beer as you can handle from 20 or so restaurants, only a couple of them might be chains. Then there is Date Night at Leu Gardens, an outdoor movie, something we can enjoy year round, where a few thousand of us enjoy food and drink picnic style under the stars. We have a couple of film festivals and a wild kind of live stage series called Fringe Festival.
But, again I say, we really don't want you to know about these things. We would much rather you stay at the Rat House or down on I-Drive where the franchises breed like, well, rats.
Just sayin'.
C3.
[QUOTE=Quasimodo45;2179862]I came to this town in the not too distant past. Folks. This place is a real rat hole. Dominated by Mickey Rat. Festering in rat land. There is no culture here. None. Every restaurant is a chain for Rat's sake. The politicians and the cop shop even work solely for the rat.
So, Yeah The rat hole fits. Fortunately, there are some very nice ladies around to ease our pain. (As well as a whole bunch of pretenders.) Also fortunately. There are a whole lot of you swell guys out there willing to spill your blood. - er. Cash. And spill the beans on the pretenders. (Sort of like what Gen. Patton said. No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war by making some OTHER poor dumb bastard die for HIS country.).
So. For your intel, I thank you.[/QUOTE]