What's on your mind?

[RileyG]

Good afternoon

 

[RileyG]

@ChocolateVanillaLion What does your signature mean?

 

[SarahsKnight]

Man, that was scary for a moment there. I forgot I had my VPN turned on when I checked up on CF just now .... so I saw a message about my IP address being banned and I was like oh no! What has happened to cause my expulsion?! I will never see any of you again!

 

[SarahsKnight]

Everyone, most of you know Someone's Angel, who used to be a part of our subcommunity. Please consider helping she and her husband in their dire situation. I simply cannot any longer, but at the very least I will pass this call for financial help along as they asked.

Fix the Car

 

[Saucy]

How is everyone this evening?

 

[sampa]

How is everyone this evening?

...

 

[Saucy]

I'm doing well. Relaxing and excited for church tomorrow.

 

[RileyG]

Good evening

 

[.Mikha'el.]

Good evening

Hello. I hope you had a good day.

 

[RileyG]

Hello. I hope you had a good day.

Thanks! It was very relaxing! You too

 

[Saucy]

I wonder what @mojoboy31 has been up to.

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I wonder what @mojoboy31 has been up to.

You're right. He hasn't been around lately. He's probably busy with work.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

I feel like I should be doing something but it's late so I might as well just go to sleep, lol.

 

[VMaeLove]

I'm doing well. Relaxing and excited for church tomorrow.

For me it is morning. I am getting ready to leave to Church. But I agree with you as excited, we are volunteering to give clothes and shoes to kids and young adults, while the Bible Leaders teach. I think it will be so good.

Have a wonderful Night and Church tomorrow.

 

[Sophrosyne]

@Miles I thought of our conversation the other day about kids these days not being active. Last night I was in my hometown after physical therapy doing errands. I was ravishing hungry and stopped at three guys.. but with the long line and someone constantly coughing and doing other gross things I decided to look on my map for some other food place. Sonic was one of the choices and I had never been there. I went to the drive-thru.. but since it was my first time they asked me to go to a stall and I could have a better chance to make a choice there. While I was trying to make a decision I thought about how much the whole shopping lot had changed and that Sonic center being there.
As a teenager in high school there was two movie theaters. One of them being there. We also had a Kmart. And in the winter there was big piles of snow and I remember being with friends and playing around in that parking lot on those hills or mounds of snow surrounding the light poles.
Sitting there I heard two teenagers sitting outside and laughing and having a good time conversing. Suddenly there was some loud flashy cars that were going down the road. Their conversation stopped and their heads spun around and you could see these cars lit up one by one following each other and going towards the Sonic. It almost seemed like those teenagers may have known those people that were in the vehicles. The last one surprised me because it was a big pickup truck and had a decal in the back that said "shoot heroin dealers". The pickup truck seemed out of place in that community since it's more City but seemed more in place of where I currently live, which is actually in the same county. The words were kind of surprising, but for that community it's not because drugs is a real problem in this county and especially east of there. Crime murder and drugs is hard to ignore. I'm sure whoever put that decal it was because of someone they personally knew. After her I got my order from the car hop, as I drove out there was a parking lot in the back that all those vehicles were parked and all the teenagers were hanging out. This is something I never had except at the beach, which was a dangerous place to be after a certain hour when knives and guns might come out. It actually seems like a safe and healthy place to hang out. The shopping mall has pretty much sat mostly empty across the way for 30 years now. That's where most of the teenagers when I was growing up hung out. So I find it interesting to have a retro place like Sonic be where this sort of revival happens in this part of the town/city.

And by the way I may have made a mistake in that I didn't tip the car hop. He hesitated as I took the bag and receipt from him and thanked him like he was expecting something. I looked it up on Google and once I got home, pretty much consuming the whole meal on the way - it was delicious, I called them and apologized. The young girl on the other end chuckled and said that it's nothing and not to worry about it. She made it seem like it's not something that is common and it's no big deal.

I just had to share that observation as I find it curious and fun to observe these kinds of revivals happening in a healthy way.

I worked at a Sonic as my first official job when I turned 16 years old. My older sister was a roller skating carhop and she made a lot of money on tips, I was a fry cook and made a whopping $1.65/hour there working about 12 hours a week in the evenings. Sonics are all over the place around here still in almost every city and in the big city here I'm not sure how many we have maybe 6 or 7 or them I can only recall about 5 but they have closed many of them and moved them to other spots all of them still do the car hop thing but the stopped with the roller skate carhops not long after.
Cancer is a horrible disease as my father got diagnosed with it about 5 years after my mom died suddenly with no warning he lasted 7 weeks and died horribly I think he had a heart attack trying to go to the bathroom in his weakened state. Cancer ravaged him so bad he looked like a victim of a famine. I was called at 2am in the morning by my frantic sister to check to see if he was dead, just like I was called in the morning by my dad 4 years earlier to check my mom and see if she was also dead. I sometimes wonder if I'm messed up not freaking out when someone is newly dead but not able to stomach being around people suffering with illnesses that are terminal. The strange thing is my sister told me reading his writings he had on his computer he was talking about a dog that we adopted from a shelter that had been abused that after a year we were finally able to pet him that years later got cancer and we had to take him to be put to sleep he wondered if he got cancer like that if people would care for him or not. It was like he predicted him getting cancer. I just pray your friend is healed of his cancer. Oh, I used to love Sonic's Onion Rings.... when I was working for them we hand made them but I think now they are premade and not using the same recipe.

 

[Sophrosyne]

I feel like I should be doing something but it's late so I might as well just go to sleep, lol.

You should be dreaming about doing something

 

[RileyG]

For me it is morning. I am getting ready to leave to Church. But I agree with you as excited, we are volunteering to give clothes and shoes to kids and young adults, while the Bible Leaders teach. I think it will be so good.

Have a wonderful Night and Church tomorrow.

I went to the Vigil Mass tonight, and am grateful! I will be relaxing tomorrow! Same to you, friend!

 

[RileyG]

hello @Sophrosyne

 

[RileyG]

I wouldn't wish insomnia on anyone

 

[RileyG]

I have severe sleep apnea and use a CPAP machine even though I am relatively young (26). Trying to breathe in that thing without it going berserk is so darn difficult!