Picking up fast food

[mtbc]

I do not eat much fast food but I do enjoy it. In my last days here, I sometime eat at places that do not have locations in Scotland. Today's choice was Hardee's, I've not visited for years and I like their mushroom swiss burger. It turned out that they have a location in Oliver Springs so I headed there this lunchtime. For not being busy, they were rather slow, they omitted the sauces/dips I'd ordered, and the burger was … not something that would create in me the ability to miss it, not that I can put my finger on the disappointment. Their slowness was doubly surprising given that I had placed the order from home for pick-up ASAP. Still, they were apologetic enough about the delay that they assured me that my apple pie was the best of the batch, though I'd expect a small variance among them.

While waiting for Hardee's to complete my order, I sat in the warm sunshine, in my rented Chevy Malibu, watching the traffic on state route 62, and reflected on how very at home I feel in the less-populated areas of the US. I really enjoy living here, that's why I returned, and why I'd hoped to be able to share it with my children now that they are adults. Still, at least I got to spend some more time here, we all have alternative lives that we might have lived, I just wish that I'd had more warning that my stay would be greatly truncated. On the way back home, I saw four deer in somebody's back yard.

It is strange to be driving an automatic, I keep wanting to control the gears. East Tennessee can get hilly and I like to use low gear downhill. The automatic has an L which seems to be a lower gear but too mildly so. I was surprised to observe that the cruise control seems to shift into a higher gear when going rather faster than the target speed but, again, insufficiently aggressively. I give it marks for effort, though.

Comments

[thewayne]

Here, Hardee's is Carl's Jr., and it's one of my favored stops. I like their onion rings, and their fries are a bit better. They're also the newest of the fast food joints here.

Speaking of deer, when I come home I swing into a pull-out directly in front of our house to reverse into our carport rather than pulling in nose-in. And there was a deer nibbling on one of our trees. I apologized for disturbing him, and encouraged him to continue, then backed in. And he continued! So I pulled out my iPhone 13, zoomed in, and took some shots. I'll mail them to myself and see if they're good enough to consider posting. The 13 has a fantastic camera, odds are good: he was quite the looker and the light was fantastic!

[mtbc]

Wow, that's quite the encounter. (-: I'm glad you got to see him.