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Thanksgiving in a foreign place
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thanksgiving has arrived.
We have two Thanksgivings under the equal-time act of whenever it was that both sets of parents demanded time. Ours is usually the Sunday before Thanksgiving and then again on the traditional Thanksgiving Day. Sometimes we’re here and other times we travel to Cincinnati where this year we’ll sit down to an afternoon of good food and discussion on how lousy our football teams are doing.
Over the years I’ve enjoyed going to Cincinnati because I like the weather and I like the town. There is nothing named “Peachtree” in Cincinnati but there is a “Pete Rose Avenue” where I like to go and look at the street sign and reminisce how fun it was playing baseball having Pete Rose as my baseball idol. I like to go where Crosley Field was, out near the train station, and imagine Pete Rose giving odds to the clubhouse boys on bets on the horses that afternoon. That’s actually a fairly recent thought which is unfortunate because it really screws up the childhood stuff — too bad.
Thanksgiving up in Cincinnati is fun, though. For some reason I just like to go there on that holiday but I can’t stay much later because it snows. Nothing is worse than having someone from Atlanta in Cincinnati, or anywhere else when it snows.
The last time it snowed I assaulted the nearest grocery store and piled loads of bread and milk into my basket. I was ready for a fight but nobody seemed interested in these two food items. Odd how these people react! How do they survive?
Not one TV station did a story on how the trucks will dispense sand on the highway and I saw a school bus with students in it. They act as if nothing is wrong. No car wrecks. Where am I?
Anyway, I enjoy the time. I eat what I can identify and I speak to people who are familiar looking although I’m not sure where I saw them before. Who cares, there’s football to watch. Detroit plays somebody.
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By And....
November 21, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this
And………the Falcons will get beaten unmercifully AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
By Lynette
November 21, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this
My boss is from Ohio and looked at me as if I were growing Antlers the first time I described an Atlanta Snow Storm. He has been here almost two years and I am still waiting to be proven right. LOL.
By Sheila
November 21, 2007 9:40 PM | Link to this
When you go to Cincinnati and say something to someone, he might respond, “Please?” He’s not asking you to do something. He saying, “What did you say?” Also, don’t go downtown without an armed escort, preferably TWO armed escorts. The Graeter’s ice cream is good, though.
By Marcus
November 22, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this
Sheila, Downtown ATL makes Downtown Cincinnati look like Disneyland. Although no armed guards are needed in either ATL or Cincinnati, just a little bit of more patience.
I would also say that Cincinnati does freak out when it snows, just ask people from Cleveland. It is all over the news and school will get cancelled over an inch.
By Einstein
November 22, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this
Falcons 24-21 over the Colts. It’s not Manning’s year.
By Einstein
November 23, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this
D’OH!
By Ima Nidiot
November 25, 2007 8:39 PM | Link to this
And the funny thing about all of Ohio is how strict they are about the speed limits. It’s no coincidence that several of the top radar-detector makers are based in Ohio (Cincinnatti Microwave, Valentine One, Fuzzbuster). My fondest memory of that area was getting stopped by a Dayton cop driving a beat-up Chevy Malibu…the patrol car was so sad that I thought some security guard was late to the job site….he had the old round flashers on the roof. There’s a interstate-like road that has a 35mph speed limit. 35mph in Ohio means 35mph, not 65, like here in Atlanta.
By Madison
November 27, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this
Why don’t you do everybody a favor and stay there? You would raise the average intelligence of both places!
By Rick
November 27, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this
And after the turkey runs out, there’s no better way to celebrate the holiday than with White Castle & Skyline!