November82012
I’ve been in this McDonald’s everyone (click link above). It doesn’t have any electrical outlets to plug in your laptop charger. It also normally flies its flag correctly. Follansbee is a town with like 4,000 cafes for its 3,000 inhabitants. The pride of Brooke County maybe. Everyone who’s ever put a flag up on a flag pole knows you have like a 50/50 chance of getting it right. Which is why you often see flags flying upside down, right? Either that or West Virginia’s northern panhandle is a BIG coal area, and no one there likes the president because of his perceived War on Coal. Not even the McDonald’s franchisee who, let’s be honest, probably thinks America died two days ago.
October132012
I’ve been a little lax on text posts lately because I’ve been working a lot. Writing. Making money, but not a lot of it. I was in Coshocton, OH for a while, long enough for an old man to mutter under his breath “Just get a job,” every time he saw me typing away at the McDonald’s. He said these things to his wife and he thought I couldn’t hear him because I had headphones in. But I wasn’t listening to anything.
That’s the thing about rural (or semi-rural) McDonald’s, though: they all have regulars. People come in daily and I can’t imagine how they do it. I’m at a point where McDonald’s makes me sick. I can’t eat it. And some people (geriatrics) use the McDonald’s as their local meetinghouse.
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