Friday, July 01, 2005

stopping for the texas stop sign


I've been in Colorado this week - reading, playing music, hiking, and relaxing. Truly NICE!!!
On the drive up, we passed many-a "Texas Stop Sign" - aka, Dairy Queen. We stopped at one just outside Amarillo to use the facilities and maybe grab a nice ice cream cone. Well, the guy ordering at the counter in front of us asked for a simple blizzard, but was met with the response - "We are out of ice cream."
"what?" asked the hungry gentleman.
"we don't have any ice cream right now. we're out," responded the all too easy-going texas country counter lady.

And, the now perturbed gentleman (truck driver, as I learned by watching him walk to the big truck that he apparently drives) simply walked out with a gentle mumble, "imagine that. the dairy queen, out of ice cream, on a hot summer's day."

and, yes, it was true. we couldn't order anything delicious either.
those of us in our vehicle are still trying to fathom, to come to grips with the state of the Queen that day...
we leave for home tomorrow, and I imagine that we will pull up to this "type" of stop sign, and I wonder what we'll find.
I hope there's frozen dairy inside.

-s.o

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