Throwing Little Thought Pebbles at
Your Windshield April 30, 2001  

Hey, I'm a Regular!!

Not "I'm regular," although I am, but why would I tell you about that here? I mean, I hardly even know you so it doesn't seem like it's very much of your business. No, what I'm trying to say is that I've finally accomplished my goal of being a regular somewhere!

Actually, I'm a regular in two different but equally wonderful establishments. I'm a regular at the Family Cafe in Fitchburg, which my son dubbed "Sam's" some while ago when he misunderstood the owner's name (it's actually Kim). We eat at Sam's at least once every weekend. When we come in, all the waitresses know that we're gonna have a plate of Michael's Pancakes. They weren't named after him, but they should have been. He has a plate of them 52 weeks a year. I love EVERYONE who works there, especially "Sam" and I don't know what we would do without their "panpakes."

The other place where I am now officially a regular is The Bagel Inn in Leominster. It's on my way to the highway after I drop off my son at daycare. Brandon usually takes care of me, and if I said "the usual" he would get me a honey-wheat bagel with lite strawberry cream cheese. TO DIE FOR. Oh, and he knows I want a large coffee of whatever flavor has chocolate in the name. For the past two weeks that has been chocolate raspberry. Mmmm. Oh, but sometimes I get a scone. Whatever the 'frosted' flavor is. I highly recommend the raspberry with white chocolate frosting. Or the gingerbread scone, which I haven't seen since December.

Anyway, Brandon wasn't in this morning, so I slipped from the norm and had a chocolate chip bagel with chocolate chip cream cheese (waaaaaay decadent) and an iced coffee. Anyhoo, I told him that I would mention him in the Dump, and now I did!

To All My Wealthy Fans

I have a small request. Could one of you see fit to buy Whalom Park so that my son can go on his favorite ride, something that's been in the park at least the 35ish years I've been going there. That and the motorcycles and the Ferris wheel. You can take all the other rides away. Oh wait, and the train. You have to leave the Merry-Go-Round because luckly the Carousel Trust owns that. But I really don't want the park to go away.

Drop me an email if you're rich and you want to help out. Thanks.

P.S. DON'T try to access their web site. They let whalompark.com lapse and now whalom.com seems to be directing to a porn site. Yippee.

Big Fiberglass Apples

Some days, you search for Dump items. Other days, they come to you. This item came to me. Well, it was headed in my direction, but across the median strip. This was a flatbed truck with three gigantic fiberglass apples. Well, I can only assume they were fiberglass. Whatever you would make giant apples out of, this was it. I got to thinking about where they could be going. I mean, I suppose I could imagine a farm stand ordering one. But who needs three?

I could only see one side so I suppose they could have had openings on the other side. Maybe they were big apple phone booths. Although with everyone owning a cell phone these days, who even notices phone booths any more?

So they continued down the highway, leaving town, searching for adventure.

Starbust Jelly Beans

I've become an addict. Luckily, I won't get tossed in jail for this addiction, unless I start stealing them (but right now they are in the budget.) I LOVE Starburst Jelly Beans. They are really really delish. The only problem as I see it, is that they insist on putting yellow and green ones in the bag. The green ones aren't even all that bad. They are sour apple and Keith says if you eat 3 at a time they taste like the real thing. Um, okay. Anyway, what I really want is a bag of just the purple and the dark red. The lighter red isn't bad either. One is supposed to be cherry and the other strawberry. I can't really tell the difference. I think maybe the dark red is the cherry. It has a bit more of a bite. They sort of fall into the "Red is a flavor" category, if you get my drift.

Anyway, do I have to become a rich and famous rock star to get someone to split these out by color? Is it so wrong to want a bag of purple jelly beans? Anyone out there work for Mars, Incorporated?

.COM Monopoly

I bought my husband what I suspected would be a really really cool present. .COM Monopoly. See, instead of New Jersey streets, this one had all .COM companies. Sounds cool, huh? For instance, Yahoo took the place of Boardwalk, and Excite was Park Place.

Anyway, when my step-kids came up for the weekend, we finally cracked it open. Oh, the playing pieces are all well-known web icons. But then, we pull out the money and the property cards and...they aren't for this game. They are for regular Monopoly! AHHHH! WE CAN'T PLAY! That really stinks. I called the company to ask if they could send me a replacement set and they said they couldn't because the game had been discontinued. What?! Another casualty of the .COM crash? Oh well. Maybe I can turn the playing board into art of some kind.

Oh, and they did send me a replacement game of equal value, which ended up being Genus 4 Trivial Pursuit. Very nice of them. Too bad that's the ONLY one we own. I'm going to save it and donate it to charity next Christmas.

The List

Best Flavors of Starburst Jelly Beans, in order

• Grape
• Red/Cherry
• Other Red/Strawberry
• There are no other best flavors.

All contents copyright 1996-2002 Jody Burchstead LaFerriere Not to be used or reproduced without permission. For information on Advertising on The Big DumpTruck please contact me. For $40,000 I'll rename the site after YOU.

« ? I © My Domain # » « ? | Net Girl l # » 7 Wonders Site of the Day