Today's Trip To Springfield / Only In America
This afternoon I went to Springfield for lunch and a few things. My step dad Chuck drives a semi and he had a delivery and pickup in Springfield today. So I drove down with my mom and we picked him up for a quick lunch break. We ate a Ziggies, the one catawampus from The Plaza Tower. We had our usual appetizer of delicious deep fried mushrooms and I had my usual of a plain hamburger and french fries. They have some of the best hamburgers and french fries I've ever come across, the mushrooms are excellent too. Ziggies is one of my families favorite restaurants in Springfield, it is usually where we eat when we go down there.
I thought my hamburger today tasted a little bit like the ones we would get at the Sale Barn when I was a kid. The Sale Barn was like a big building where livestock is taken and auctioned off. People would often be there for hours buying and selling and some would go just to watch. They had a concession stand that sold food and the hamburgers were so good and tasted different than hamburgers from restaurants. My theory why has always been because the meat was fresh being a Sale Barn and all. Get a good deal on a cow, take him have him butchered and you've got your meat to sell a whole lot cheaper than if it came in on a truck.
After eating we had to drop Chuck back off with his truck so he could hit the road. Then I took my mom to JC Penney's so she could do some shoe shopping. While we were looking at shoes I noticed this girl who looked about 16 or 17 years old also shoe shopping. I could tell she was going to be a real winner when she got older! She had on a sleeveless t-shirt and from the side I could see her boob. About a minute later I saw her again standing in the main isle scratching her butt hole. Not a quick itch and move either, she was digging! Hey, everybody's butt itches! But put your back to a wall, get out of the main isle, don't just stand there in full view of half the store.
My mom picked out a couple pair of shoes and then we went to Academy Sports. I noticed up on the ammo counter at the front desk they had a new type of 9mm in. I thought it was .22 at first because it came in a round plastic container about the size of a soda can, maybe a little shorter and rounder. Didn't get a good enough look to catch a name brand or how many rounds came in it.
Mom picked out some clothes and I managed to stick it out with her until she was almost done. I was growing a little restless from all the browsing of women's shoes and clothing though and advised her I was sneaking off to the gun rack.
They already had the staff on standby with a mop and bucket to clean up the drool. I can't afford one right now though, probably won't be able to for some time. So all I can do is just stand there like a little kid outside a candy store with his face pressed up against the glass.
I did however discover a new brand of shotgun ammo and I picked up a couple boxes of that. It's called Spartan and the shells have the head of a spartan warrior on them. Not sure how good it is but it was only $13 for 25 rounds of 12 gauge 00 buck. Till today the cheapest I've come across is the Estate brand which is about $20 for 25 shells. I haven't shot the Estate brand yet, but I think it's cool the top of the shells are clear plastic so you can see the shot inside the shell. Spartan are the regular crimped top shells, but the brass is really low so I doubt they have as much power behind them as a regular shell with buckshot. Didn't see a pellet count, but I am kind of curious if the lower brass and less powder trades off for more pellets.
Tonight the History Channel's show Only In America with Larry The Cable Guy featured my home town Lebanon. The town was abuzz with excitement, it was talked about in the newspaper, a lot of people on Facebook were like don't forget to watch it tonight! After it aired Facebook was abuzz again over the show, but not so much in a good way.
Only In America started off with Larry stopping at a dog show in Kansas on his way to Missouri. Doesn't sound that bad does it? It wasn't, until they walk into this room and there is a dog up on a table and a woman is giving the dog a handjob. They showed a lot of closeups of dogs balls and private parts in a quick montage, but they at least blurred out the private parts while the woman was giving the dog the handjob and Larry gave her a helping hand. I thought it was just a little inappropriate for tv, especially for something on The History Channel. It's not something that is necessary to be shown on the air, find a different sketch to do, obviously they are only doing it for shock value to build ratings. History Channel seems to be getting pretty desperate lately with some of their programming.
The next segment was Larry in Lebanon where I live. He goes into a diner downtown and the first guy he talks to can't even talk clear enough to be understood and they have to add subtitles. Larry goes around asking people in the diner why Missouri is called "The Show Me State", not a single person in the diner knew why! Then a woman, being described on Facebook as a "crackhead" with no teeth comes up to Larry and makes a total fool of herself and invites him to go to the Free Store with her like going there is something to be proud of. I've probably watched every episode of Only In America and Larry often acts like people creep him our or are weird, but this time it didn't seem like an act, it seemed genuine! But I can't blame Larry one bit for that, I'm impressed he was even brave enough to put his arm around her.
Larry left the diner and walked across the street to where The Cackle Hatchery is. They had someone out in front of the place in a chicken costume. Staged for the show, because I've never seen or heard of this. It's not like you are going to get very many people to come in and spontaneously by live baby chickens, maybe a bucket of fried chickens, but not live baby chickens.
While Larry is walking across the street and talking to the person in the chicken suit you can see The Free Store in the background in one shot. There is a group of people just digging through the stuff like they were looting totally oblivious to the cameras. Hey who cares Larry The Cable Guy is a few feet away with a camera crew, we have to get the free stuff! Thankfully they didn't mention the place in the background was the free store or that was what the people were doing.
The Free Store is kind of like a business downtown, people go and drop off stuff they don't want for the poor. Some of the stuff is probably ok, I would call most of it trash. I posted on Facebook
I thought my hamburger today tasted a little bit like the ones we would get at the Sale Barn when I was a kid. The Sale Barn was like a big building where livestock is taken and auctioned off. People would often be there for hours buying and selling and some would go just to watch. They had a concession stand that sold food and the hamburgers were so good and tasted different than hamburgers from restaurants. My theory why has always been because the meat was fresh being a Sale Barn and all. Get a good deal on a cow, take him have him butchered and you've got your meat to sell a whole lot cheaper than if it came in on a truck.
After eating we had to drop Chuck back off with his truck so he could hit the road. Then I took my mom to JC Penney's so she could do some shoe shopping. While we were looking at shoes I noticed this girl who looked about 16 or 17 years old also shoe shopping. I could tell she was going to be a real winner when she got older! She had on a sleeveless t-shirt and from the side I could see her boob. About a minute later I saw her again standing in the main isle scratching her butt hole. Not a quick itch and move either, she was digging! Hey, everybody's butt itches! But put your back to a wall, get out of the main isle, don't just stand there in full view of half the store.
My mom picked out a couple pair of shoes and then we went to Academy Sports. I noticed up on the ammo counter at the front desk they had a new type of 9mm in. I thought it was .22 at first because it came in a round plastic container about the size of a soda can, maybe a little shorter and rounder. Didn't get a good enough look to catch a name brand or how many rounds came in it.
Mom picked out some clothes and I managed to stick it out with her until she was almost done. I was growing a little restless from all the browsing of women's shoes and clothing though and advised her I was sneaking off to the gun rack.
They already had the staff on standby with a mop and bucket to clean up the drool. I can't afford one right now though, probably won't be able to for some time. So all I can do is just stand there like a little kid outside a candy store with his face pressed up against the glass.
I did however discover a new brand of shotgun ammo and I picked up a couple boxes of that. It's called Spartan and the shells have the head of a spartan warrior on them. Not sure how good it is but it was only $13 for 25 rounds of 12 gauge 00 buck. Till today the cheapest I've come across is the Estate brand which is about $20 for 25 shells. I haven't shot the Estate brand yet, but I think it's cool the top of the shells are clear plastic so you can see the shot inside the shell. Spartan are the regular crimped top shells, but the brass is really low so I doubt they have as much power behind them as a regular shell with buckshot. Didn't see a pellet count, but I am kind of curious if the lower brass and less powder trades off for more pellets.
Tonight the History Channel's show Only In America with Larry The Cable Guy featured my home town Lebanon. The town was abuzz with excitement, it was talked about in the newspaper, a lot of people on Facebook were like don't forget to watch it tonight! After it aired Facebook was abuzz again over the show, but not so much in a good way.
Only In America started off with Larry stopping at a dog show in Kansas on his way to Missouri. Doesn't sound that bad does it? It wasn't, until they walk into this room and there is a dog up on a table and a woman is giving the dog a handjob. They showed a lot of closeups of dogs balls and private parts in a quick montage, but they at least blurred out the private parts while the woman was giving the dog the handjob and Larry gave her a helping hand. I thought it was just a little inappropriate for tv, especially for something on The History Channel. It's not something that is necessary to be shown on the air, find a different sketch to do, obviously they are only doing it for shock value to build ratings. History Channel seems to be getting pretty desperate lately with some of their programming.
The next segment was Larry in Lebanon where I live. He goes into a diner downtown and the first guy he talks to can't even talk clear enough to be understood and they have to add subtitles. Larry goes around asking people in the diner why Missouri is called "The Show Me State", not a single person in the diner knew why! Then a woman, being described on Facebook as a "crackhead" with no teeth comes up to Larry and makes a total fool of herself and invites him to go to the Free Store with her like going there is something to be proud of. I've probably watched every episode of Only In America and Larry often acts like people creep him our or are weird, but this time it didn't seem like an act, it seemed genuine! But I can't blame Larry one bit for that, I'm impressed he was even brave enough to put his arm around her.
Larry left the diner and walked across the street to where The Cackle Hatchery is. They had someone out in front of the place in a chicken costume. Staged for the show, because I've never seen or heard of this. It's not like you are going to get very many people to come in and spontaneously by live baby chickens, maybe a bucket of fried chickens, but not live baby chickens.
While Larry is walking across the street and talking to the person in the chicken suit you can see The Free Store in the background in one shot. There is a group of people just digging through the stuff like they were looting totally oblivious to the cameras. Hey who cares Larry The Cable Guy is a few feet away with a camera crew, we have to get the free stuff! Thankfully they didn't mention the place in the background was the free store or that was what the people were doing.
The Free Store is kind of like a business downtown, people go and drop off stuff they don't want for the poor. Some of the stuff is probably ok, I would call most of it trash. I posted on Facebook
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