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THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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Millard B. Grimes, I=eclem
Mlr. HALE
PUBLLSHER/A DVERTlSIG DIRECTOR
JOHN KUYKENDALL
ASSOCIATE PUBHSHFJt/EDITOR
ROB RICHARDSON
/SSISTANT EDITOR
JAYNE N
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Would You Like
Cheese on That?
Ever noticed how making
a simple purchase can become
the biggest headache of your
life?
For example, I visited a
restaurant recentlyand told the
waitress, "I'll have a cheese-
burger, fries and a Coke,
please."
Simple enough huh? No
way.
You know the conversa=
tions that begin from trying to
order at a restaurant don'tyou?
Well, this one went a little some-
thing like this:
"We don't have Coke. How
about a Pepsi?" she asP, ed.
'What's fine," I replied. "If
it's not clear, it's OK."
Then she looks at me and
asks, "Do you want regular
fries or spicy fries?"
I really wanted to scream
out... "If I wanted spicy fries I
would have asked for them."
But I simply looked up at her
and said. "Regular fries will be
fine, thank you."
Then the question came
that made me lose it:
"Do you want cheese?"
"Of course," I snapped
back. 'What's the reason I
ordexed a cheesebmgerAt does
cxmae with cheese doesn't it?"
The woman what
she had done. You could see the
embarrassment rise in her
cheeks. She walked away with-
out saying another word.
OF COURSE, it's really not
her fault. Restaurant, especial-
ly fast food places, are always
trying to push items. The rea-
son is simple, to make more
money.
I don't know about you, but
a trip to a fast food place is like
being on a game show. It's
almost as ff the cashier is try-
ing to play the old game of 100
questions with you.
Think I'm kidding? See if
this sounds familiar?
You drive up to the drive
through of a local fast food
place. Let's look at this for a
moment. The reason you go
through the window is So you
can't get your food and lon
your way. If you had timi to
''Would you like cheese on
that burger?"
"No thank you," you replay.
Thinldng to yff,"How stu-
pid do these people think I am.
If I wanted cheese I would
order a cheeseburger."
''Would you like that super
sized for only 29¢ more?"
"Sure, that's fine."
"Well, we can super, super
size it for just an additional ten
cents. Would you like to super,
super size it?"
You're thinldng, "No, I don 't
usually drink a 64 ounce drink
with my meal." But you reply,
"No thank you."
''Would you like to try one
of our desserts today? We have
mudpie and chocolate covered
grasshoppers on special this
week?"
''No, thank you."
''Would you like one of our
Elmo Christmas glasses? They
are only .995 each."
"No thank yotL"
''Would you like..."
That's when the exchange
over the glorified PA system
comes to an end. "No, I just
wadt my meal with Coke to
drink, please."
IF THAT ISN'r bad
enough, try purchasing some-
thing on sale. Here's an exam-
ple of how that might go.
"Hi, may I help you?" the
sales clerk asks.
'`why yes, I noticed this dia-
mondbracelet you have in your
sales catalog for $199. I would
like one of tha."
Now, you went in the jew-
store with every intention
of purchasing the bracelet that
was on e. It should be sim-
ple. You ask for it. They hand
it to you. You pay them.
Everybody ends up happy. Not
SO.
'What's a promotional
stop and eat, you would get out
and go in. However, manag&\\; item,s. The diamonds in it are
ment of the organization has' not as pure as this bracelet,
trainedtheircashierstotryand which is only $100 more. Plus
sell you more than what you
want toorder. So, when you pull
up to the speaker, the fun
begins.
"Good afternoon. Thanks
for choosing It Ain't Real
Burgers, But It's Close..Would
you like to try one of our com-
bos today?"
You reply, "Let me have a
number three with Coke to
drink." Not realizing you just
opened the first envelope con-
mining the fh-st questiou in the
game.
that is a ten carat g01d bracelet
and this one is 18 carat."
Well, just color me stupid.
I thought I was buying the best
money could buy for $199.
I've got an idea. The next
time I pull up to a drive through
window, as sqou as I hear wel-
come. I'm going to shout, "I
want a number one with Coke
and that's all. Don't ask me any
questions. I'm not here to
answer questions, I'm here to
eat: Thank you and have a nice
day.
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By the Way, Who Won That
(Written in 1988 when introducing a new line of
lran and lraq had been at desert tents.
war with each other for seven What else bothers me is
years) that I'm not certain who to
pull for in the war.
A number of things both- Would the United States
' er me about the Iran-Iraq benefit more if Iran won or
war. if Iraq won? How would the
First, did Iran invade Iraq war's outcome affect my win-
or did Iraq invade Iran? And ter heating bill and gasoline
is the Iraq-Iran war or the prices? Which side has the
Iran-Iraq war? Do we have best-looking uniforms? (I two presidents that same con-
tne basis for rock lyrics here: often use that to determine dition; and two of its leading
"Did Iran invade Iraq/or did whom I'd prefer in a sport- exports are hate and terror-
Iraq invade Iran?/Iraq Iran, ing contest, which is why I ism. But Iraq's not exactly a
Iran-Iraq around the never pull for the Houston bastion of freedom and good-
clock/Stay and be my lovin' Astros, whose uniforms look willtoal, either. If IranisJohn
man." liketheywerepatternedafter Dillinger, Iraq is at least
Second, I never know a dish of orange marmalade.) Pretty Boy Floyd.
what to believe when I read If Iran wipes out a few
about thewar, million Iraquis ( Irocks, I INTERVIEWED some
One day, the headlines Iraqanians, Iraquonians), Americans to see which side
read, Iraq Claims 7 zillion should I sleep a little better they favored.
Iranians killedin a desert bat- at night or vice versa? Tossing out those who
fie. hadn't heard about the war,
The next day I get Iran JUST OFF the top of my didn't have an opinion, were
says Nobody Left in Iraq but • head, I'd say I should pull for drunk, who thought I was a
Dogs and Camels. Iraq. The Iranians took member of some strange reli-
For all we know, there Americans hostage, the aya- gious sect, who were busy
might not be a war going on tollah, who looks like Gabby writing Oral Roberts a check
at all. This could just be some Hayes with a bad case of con- and who were blowing bub-
public relations firm's way of stipation, has given our last bles with their saliva when
Small World: A Meeting by
The longer I live, the
smaller the world seems to
get. Listen at this if you will!
Several months ago at the
beginning of the 14th District
State Senatorial campaign,
incumbent Senator George
Hooks dropped by the news-
paper office. I had met the
candidate several years ago,
but had never talked to him
eyeball t 0 eyeball.
Senator Hooks noticed
the Bulldog insignia on the
shirt I was wearing at the
time, and asked if I was a
Georgia fan. I told him I had
a degree from UGA and had
acquired a leaning in that
direction over the years.
Then Senator Hooks told
me of a relative of his, an
uncle I believe he said, that
had played football for
Georgia back in the twenties.
This former Bulldog was
Bobby Hooks, who I remem-
bered was head football
coach at Mercer University
in Macon before World War
II. Mercer never resumed
collegiate football after the
war. Anyway, I knew who
Bobby Hooks was.
The senator told me this
story about Bobby Hooks that
either I had forgotten or
never heard. He said his rel-
ative had been interviewed
by the University of Georgia
Athletic Board for the head
football coach at Georgia
after the 1938 season when
Coach Joel Hunt was fired
and Coach Wally Butts was
hired,
This made sense to me
because I knew that Bobby
Hooks was an outstanding
football player at Georgia in
the middle twenties, but I had
never met him.
My oldest sister, Mary
Alice,. was. ,student at
Georgia at the time Bobby
Hooks was playing football
there.
SHE TOLD ME this tale
about going to a homecoming
dance with Bobby Hooks. I'm
not sure of the date of this
homecoming dance, but it
must have been exciting
because I can still see my sis-
ter's eyes sparkle as she
talked about dating the
(BMOC) Big Man of Campus
that night. This was Bobby
Hooks.
My sister said our father
was strict with her and a
younger sister and set defi-
nite curfew rules. The girls
were not only required to be
home by 12 midnight on
homecoming night after the
big dance, daddy's curfew
also required the girls be in
bed and lights out no later
than midnight. ,.
This homecoming night
in Athens was so exciting my
sister did not get home until
just past the midnight hour.
My sister would tell me that
her date, Bobby Hooks; cut
off his automobile motor and
they coasted down Woodlawn
Avenue to our home for fear
daddy might hear them.
asked, the results were t
close to call
One man did put the t
ter in its
however.
"It's like
cancer and AIDS," he
Perhaps wha
here is the stone
late Georgian Bill
pioneer sportscaster
broadcasting the
Harvard football
"Whom do you prefer
tomorrow's game?"
Harvard student asked
"Yale or fair Harvard?"
"Neither one," he
"You're all a bunch of
Yankees and I hope you
lose."
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was on his way to checkl
oldest daughter and be
she was following "I
rules.
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Fearing what might al
penifdadd00
ing curfew, my sister
some quick thinking to :'
daddy's wrath.
She quickly cut off
lights, jumped in
W
her evening gown AF
removing her makeup . S
leaving a crease in the no
ers to breathe. She off
daddy come in the room, t te
on the lights
) ;n (
SOON my sister said s your
could breathe a sigh 7 lay
Daddy had come in my
ter's room and satisfied
self that everything
Although I have heardl
Hooks, I never met
However, I recognized
name from readin
ALL WENT WELL at
first. She entered the front football history.
door, removed her shoes and Isn't it strange liow
my meeting with
Hooks could stir up a new
of memories.
The world gets
every day!
quietly tipped upstairs to her
bedroom. So far, so good!
As she began to undress,
she heard our father making
a noise elsewhere in the
house. She realized daddy
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WST[IM: "Lot's
some dbabk veteran
The Legion Auxiliary
box at Dr. Heads dental
for you to give to
veterans in
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• UON MOVIE TIME:
Motors' Chevrolet
was the feature of the
meeting of the Lions Club
the Community
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"Hogansville was
honorabk
nor in the 1952
Town Contest."
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