kenly 95 truck stop

The convenience mart gift shop at the Kenly 95 truck stop is huge. These pics don’t show much. There’s a lot more. There are even entire trucks parked in here for display.

social media facade

Someone I know is worried that they seem to be about the only one who is not happy.

Don’t worry. Everybody is deliriously happy on social media. We all groom it.

Some even have a fixed camera smile that’s the exact same in 10,000 selfies. At least don’t do the duck mouth. 🦆☺️

Many people in real life are driving the toilet at night and hurling sweat and everything else. 🤢

coffee delayed

Patiently waiting my turn at the hotel coffee bar this morning as someone slowly dumps in like 15 sugars into their coffee, tasting it and stirring after every few, blocking the entire coffee area.

I wanted to say, “take that shit over to your table and do it there.” Your free coffee has to be so exquisitely sweetened.

I was somewhat entertained by it all.

mall softcore spank mags

Magazines seen at the mall today.

The one on the left was $40. It was on the order of triple thick with content. A quick look at the pictures showed them to be superb, but why not fire up a web browser instead, save the $40, and go out to eat.

Well, ok. I guess seeing it in print was a little more rewarding than on a computer monitor.

friends?

I run across some whose recurrent theme is:

— friend loyalty
— friend betrayal
— getting stabbed in the back

I don’t understand this at all.

santa at the mall

A Santa at the mall. All that’s missing is a Marlboro between the fingers.

abandoned magazine section

The abandoned magazine racks at Books-A-Million.

Long time ago I used to cruise magazine racks… for Linux magazines with the latest release inside the cover on a CD: Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware.

The Sanborns on Vallarta in Guadalajara had a really good magazine selection. 😉📰

present-day mall shopping

“this mall is a ghost town. Not many stores open, short staffed, every time I visit here all the lights in the mall are pretty much shut off.”

I’m looking for something to do while traveling for work and have a free afternoon. I found a nearby mall. This review helped me decide to go. Sounds OK to me.

I’ve been to more than one mall where rain was dripping inside through the ceiling with buckets here and there.

If some company named Simon owns the mall, it ain’t got long.

at the busy buffet

Just arrived at Golden Corral (buffet restaurant). Parking lot packed. My odds of getting Covid in there are probably about one in three.

I’m going in there.

pros and cons

“These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking”
“These are the pros and cons of hitchhiking”

Mid 1980’s. I had some kind of overpowering spiritual experience one night while this was thumping away on the FM. I wasn’t right for a while.