Thursday, March 08, 2018

Word Difference




This is/was a barbecue restaurant on Hwy 400 near Dawsonville, Georgia.

About 30 or more years ago it was a convenience store.  A carrier, Ken,  at the post office I worked at and his girlfriend bought some land together, between Dawsonville and the store.

On the land was a creek.  Remember, this is also near Dahlonega, the  gold mining capital about 150  years ago,  and there still is some "gold in them thar hills".

Ken made a gold mining machine.  It ran on a two-cylinder engine.  If scooped the  sand out of the bottom of the creek and dump  it on a screen. The screen agitates, sort of and  the sand falls back into the creek and somehow tiny little gold nuggets are left.  It worked, Rocky and Adam got some small  pebble size nuggets.

Ken wanted to share his fun with us and made arrangements with me to meet with us at the convenience store mentioned above on a Saturday afternoon.

Anna, our boys, and I met Ken and his girlfriend in the parking lot  of the store mentioned.  Ken suggested we go into the store and buy some hot dogs and buns and have a lunch cookout too.  He said he already had BBQ grill there.

He and I went into the store and bought hot dogs, buns, Cokes, paper plates, and cups.  Then he asked the cashier did they have condiments.
She said sure, on aisle 3.
We went to aisle 3 and there were no shelf for condiments.
We went back to the cashier and said we did not see the continents on aisle 3.
She told us to look again, they are there.
We looked again and again went back and told her they were not there.
This time she looked a little perturbed.  She slammed down what she was doing and said, "Here, I'll show you!"

She hurriedly marched to sale 3 and pointed her  finger like she was ramming it and said "THERE!"
She was pointing to the condoms.
We said we were looking for the mustard and ketchup.
She was shocked.  Her face turned red
Ken said they laughed about that, everytime he came by for years.

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