Mickey "D" on Cedar Key?
"You've got to be kidding!" Ray said to me Saturday afternoon as he was looking through the recent edition of the Cedar Key News. "What?" I questioned, as I glanced up from my knitting. He passed me the above flyer that was tucked into the pages of our newspaper.
None of it seemed too interesting until I reached that bottom line. Do you see it? The line where somebody hand wrote, "Coming Soon to Cedar Key." I gasped. I shook my head. I felt my concern building.
Hey, folks, don't get me wrong.....I don't have anything against McDonalds. Well, heck, it's practically an American institution. But here? On Cedar Key? That's almost as sacrilegious as installing this burger place in my beloved Paris. I still shudder when I see those Golden Arches perched along a street where Hemingway walked. But I digress......back to the issue at hand.
I thought, "where on earth would they put this place?" Surely not downtown among our historic buildings or seafood restaurants? Never content to wait and see, I had to know right then and there what was going on. So I put a call out to my friend, Molly, at the Cedar Key News. Did they put the flyers in all the newspapers? I needed/wanted facts. In the meantime, I called my friend, Joyce. Did she have one in her paper?
Ah, no......she didn't. Right about this time, I began to realize that perhaps all it was a prank. To get a non-suspecting resident like me a bit frazzled, to have me moaning over "what's next?" Neiman Marcus setting up business on Second Street? And just about this time Molly called me back laughing.....no, Cedar Key News did NOT insert these flyers.....and although she couldn't confirm it for sure, it looked pretty doubtful that those Golden Arches were going to grace our little fishing village.
So, okay......I admit it. For a short period of time, I was concerned. And I also admit, I fell for it. So whoever thought it would be a cute joke to slip this into one copy of the paper.....you got me! I enjoy a prank now and again......especially when I know the reality of it is that if anybody on Cedar Key is craving a Big Mac.......they still have to drive 39 miles to Chiefland to get one!
Terri DuLong
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You do seem a lot like my sister and in your introduction you have the quote from "Voltaire". My father used that quote quite a bit.
Now don't get me started on McDonald's Grrrrr !!!
I want to know more about who would pull such a prank?
Catching up here, congrats on the writer's award for Seeking Sidney. I'm hoping it will be published soon. My wife is a voracious reader of romance and I'm sure to order a copy when it's ready.
But, we are getting a Wendy's down in the parking lot of our friendly local Walmart, still very new, and as much as I dislike fastfood Wendy's is the only one I would actually stop by. They are very clean and have some healthy choices. So on those nights when Martin is literally starving from lack of food he will have somewhere besides Subway to go!