Mondays…. 
August 8, 2016
Well, you all know Mondays and what they’re like…Millyrose ’n m’self took ourselves on a little road trip…left Fair Oaks about 10 in the AM…Two ’n a half hours found us in Santa Rosa visiting her Aunt….not a bad trip with only a few traffic…not really jams, more like some stop ’n go due to accidents at the side of the road that piqued the curiosity of fellow drivers…
Left Santa Rosa around about 3 in the afternoon, a stop at Dennys for a Belgian Waffle…Denny’s maple syrup bears a remarkable resemblance to actual maple syrup…we stopped in Sonoma becuz Millyrose had a hankering for a chocolate milkshake…I’m not going to mention the name of the fast food establishment in which I paid almost $4 bucks apiece for something that resembled a milk shake…well, almost resembled a milkshake…it was so thick it was like trying to suck soft ice cream thru a small straw…ah well, we don’t frequent fast food places often ’n every once in a while we just have to do something to remember why…
I remember the very first chocolate milkshake I ever had…can’t recall the name of the place but it was in Portsmouth, Ohio back around ’42 or ’43…there was a high counter, marble-topped, I think…the ‘shake came in a large chrome cup that the clerk poured into a glass…there was enough left over to have a second glass…it was absolutely the best thing I ever had….well, that’s what I thought at the time…
When I was 11 or thereabouts, cousin Terry Howard took me ’n cousin Gayle to a movie in Portsmouth…don’t recall the movie but afterwards we went to Gallahers Drug Store ’n I had my very first banana split…chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, whipped cream, nuts….tho’t my belly was gonna burst but I managed to eat the whole thing…
Terry lives in Oregon now ’n Gayle has slipped the tether of these earthly bonds but I still remember the darn banana split…go figure……Thanks Terry…..Justin Other Smith
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