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I've got to tell all of you waiters/waitresses who are working your way
through school a little story that I heard the other day. It was at a nearby
restaurant that a few "older" ladies entered. There were a couple of young
women waitresses and a young man waiter. The two young women didn't
want to wait on the older" women because they felt traditionally they didn't
leave much of a tip. So the young man stepped up and went to wait on them.
After he served them and they finished their meal they left their money to
pay the fare. The young man realized they left too much money on the table
and went after them and said to them that they overpaid by $145. They replied
to him something to the effect that he was a college student and probably
could use that money for his education. In fact, that young man did just graduate
from high school and is going on to college. You can imagine the look
on the two young waitresses' faces when he told them what had happened. It
just goes to show you - like the old wives tale says - you can't always judge
a book by its cover!
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I've got another kind of weird little driving story. It actually didn't involve
anything too illegal. I was driving west on US 18 and got to the "slow" lane.
My cruise control was set on 61 MPH so I went past three vehicles that were
going along in the "slow" lane. Before I had reached the merge traffic spot
along that stretch of the road all three of those vehicles had passed me by -
and I hadn't touched my cruise control!
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Last Sunday was the first of two Dodgeville Lions Club Antique and Flea
Market Shows held at Harris Park this summer. Saturday was set-up day and
a lot of the 64 spaces were filled by that evening (thank goodness). It was
pretty hot in the afternoon, so Ley Pavilion had open doors and we even had
a large barn fan blowing in a breeze. Sunday morning the weather had
changed. It was probably 55 degrees in the morning as the rest of the vendors
came in to set up. All the doors were down except for the main door where
spectators and buyers entered around 8:30 a.m. We had some rain, wind and
even some lightning. I think I could've sold my long pants several times as
many of the vendors who had come on Saturday and stayed over only had
shorts and short sleeve shirts and tops to wear. One or two people went to
the cars and brought in blankets to wrap themselves up in. Many had their
jackets or sweaters on. Lion Jerry Whitford, who was manning the front door
for a good share of the early morning hours, came back to the concession
stand and said he didn't have any feeling in his hands. He had a hot cup of
coffee that he mainly wanted to just hold to get some feeling back into his
hands!
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We had a good show at Harris Park with some 700 people going through
the front gate. The Lioness sold out of their pies by noon and we had to restock
hot dogs, buns and chips - plus we had half again more barbecue than
our last show figuring what was left over we would freeze for the next show
August 21st - but there was none left over. Oh and we sold a lot of hot chocolate
in the morning hours to the non-coffee drinkers!
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Saturday was one of the first of several weekends of great barbecue chicken
in the area as the Highland VFW held their annual Summerfest. There was
great chicken directly from the "spit" served as can be seen above by the line
of people going through the pay line!
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They had great chicken the week before at Montfort's "Big Days" too!