Well, what’s eating you lately? Got something you’re just dying to get off your chest? Want to know the answer to that one last thing you don’t know? Want to share a pearl of wisdom with your fellow men and women that will set us all straight? Ready to jump into the pool of esoterica?
Well, now’s your chance. Because … it’s your turn.
38 responses so far ↓
1 gladiator // Jun 23, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I miss the old Cag’s restaurant. I think everything was pure butter and garlic. I think I was younger than the driving age when we frequented that place the most. Why do things have to go through such drastic change? I have a friend who won’t shop at stores that leave vacant buildings behind. Some change is not necessarily an improvement.
2 WMCC News Anchor // Jun 23, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Is the fist bump an anti-bacterial thing?
3 Citro // Jun 23, 2008 at 10:17 pm
This is perfect timing, dear Anchor. I was just wondering what people would say about our local public education system. No, let me say that differently. I can easily imagine what folks will say about our public education system in Macon. What I wonder is, what is the solution? Has anybody got a genuine strategy that when implemented would result in excellent public education opportunities for Macon’s kids? If so, please do share!
And thanks, Mr. Anchor Man….you da Man!
4 gonetomonroeco // Jun 23, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I have a partial solution. Go back to Boys and Girls separate schools like we had in the 40s’. Go back to the paddle for the boys and use it. Make the parents responsible for their childs behaviour. Just a start, add your comments
5 WMCC News Anchor // Jun 23, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Citronella, you gorgeous hunk of flesh, I think one solution would be for the plethora of private schools to keep hiking their tuition rates to draw some parents back into the system.
6 gladiator // Jun 24, 2008 at 6:09 am
My child went to college with plenty BibbCo school pruducts. All of them were grads of the fast-tracking, honors, AP Inernational Baccalaurate, we are pretending to be college prep programs. One kid was doing research on the college level before he graduated from Central. My child (private school grad), was never afforded that. I think there is an elite class in the public schools in Bibb that have some privileges that even some of the private school kids don’t get. Their parents were all doctors or Phds. That is your solution. Make sure all Bibb public school parents are MDs or folks with advanced training or doctorates in their fields. I think you get what I am trying to point out with this. You could fix public education and it could be perfect. If the kids go home to a life that feels education is not important, it doesn’t matter one whitt, not a thing. And I still wish the Bagel Bakery had not bitten the dust.
7 Flower Child // Jun 24, 2008 at 6:58 am
Yes, what is eating the Flower Child. As the current energy crisis unfolds we are all now required to “Pay before You Pump.” Just the other day a Fuel Vendor told me to pay up first. The fuel burner outside was half full and I did not know how many dollars it would take. I left the Fuel Vendor’s establishment.
Just because a few of us may drive off without paying is no reason to require everyone to pay before you pump. I have been obtaining fuel from this Vendor at a slightly different location than the Fuel Vendor just across the street from the “Cag’s.” It would seem that long standing customers could be provided with “Loyal Customer Cards” and the Fuel Station Clerks could turn on the pumps. Not to difficult to set up, I am sure. Certainly a far better situation than treating every customer as a potential criminal. Yes, I am aware that there are some among us who drive off without paying. Additionally, I refuse to use the Credit Card Slot at the pump because I have been made aware that there are those among us who simply remove this little device for their own personal gain. I believe I read about this in our local Print Media.
What is a person to do????
8 gladiator // Jun 24, 2008 at 8:34 am
To clarify: the kid from Central was doing the research at a major university, major research on site at that university, with a team of rocket scientists. This was before he left high school. He spent only 2 years and a bit to get through undergrad. I have no idea how important a part public school ed. had to do with this fast track he followed.
9 Ima Thinkin // Jun 24, 2008 at 8:58 am
The Eyores of our world drive me crazy, but then those who stupidly listen to them and give credence to what they say make me even madder!! Ever sat in a meeting with one of these brain-dead blockheads who can turn the tide with a simple sigh? How about just having a simple conversation with one!!? I walk away thinking how sad. These people are non-thinkers who believe that one problem within a solution negates the entire solution. Throwing the baby out with the bath water is smart??
No, it’s dumb, dumb, dumb!!!!!
(I’m sure there are psychologically revealing red flags all over my attitude today! :-)
10 Older & Wiser // Jun 24, 2008 at 9:10 am
We are all worrying about oil and gas now.
Did we plan ahead over the past years?
What will happen in the future when we start to worry about water?
Ask all of the people who don’t abide by the outdoor watering restrictions now!
11 kturnerga // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:24 am
We have darned few restaurants in Macon anymore; that is, none that charge reasonable prices and serve normal food with good service. Either you have to go to a cruddy neighborhood or spend an arm and a leg for weirdo food.
12 augustus // Jun 24, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Flower child, we are treated as criminals in other ways too. Ever have your money marked at a store? I had a clerk mark a $5 bill recently. Guess I look like a criminal. Try getting in a courthouse without a pretty good search. I understand security needs, but for a hireling to treat tax payers like a criminal is irritating. Public servants need to remember they are not public masters. The tax payers are the masters.
13 gladiator // Jun 24, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Kturner, please tell me where to find the weirdo food. So far, I have to drive to Atlanta (closest place) to get that stuff. And on the northern end of Peachtree at that. Which brings me to gasoline. My pals in big cities have been walking to lots of stuff for years. Some even only rent Zip Cars. They don’t own their own cars, Manhattan style, and they just rent for a day if they need to bring a bunch of stuff home or whatever. Must be great to not own a car. Everyone I know like this lives in a city where they can walk to lots of stuff or they can take mass transit. And I hope I am not Ima’s Eeyore. But I am starting to feel that way as I am baffled how to get some places without taking my car for a 20 dollar ride. We did not plan ahead for not having petrol.
14 gladiator // Jun 24, 2008 at 2:47 pm
I am wondering right now how ‘Gus feels about the patriot act. I want every government official to feel very happy to search me or whatever if it means we are all safe. And there were a pack of gypsy counterfeiters in south Gawja when I was a young ‘un. The kids in that family had the best clothes. Nobody ever questioned their cash…….And the hand bump thing–I was never very cool, so I am clueless but I will try to ask my friends who are cool and see if they know why that is cool. I am pretty sure germs have nothing to do with it. Being cool and groovy probably has everything to do with it, but being a total dork nerd geek square, I would not know.
15 gladiator // Jun 24, 2008 at 2:48 pm
But I am proud to be a geek, dork, nerd, square. Even though I am sure it is NOT hip to be square. Just look at my lovely orthopedic shoes. Yummy.
16 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jun 24, 2008 at 5:18 pm
For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my unconsolidated city & county………….since all of you fellow bloggers are finally speaking out about “what’s eating you”.
17 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jun 24, 2008 at 5:46 pm
For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my Bibb County Commissioners… for choosing General Mills Self-Rising Flour over the competing brands of White Lily AP and Betty Crocker’s Gold Label.
I wonder if they even consulted with Michelle or Martha? Did they even consider the venerable Pillsbury’s Best label?
18 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jun 24, 2008 at 6:21 pm
For the first time in my adult life I am “not proud” of conservative bloggers like Augustus…..who attempted to pass a counterfeit $5 bill at Mr. Patel’s corner grocery.
19 Ima Thinkin // Jun 24, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Gladiator, you may be a geek, dork, nerd, and square all rolled into one, but a “Woe is me; doom and gloom predicting; let’s rain on someone’s parade” Eeyore, you are not!
Watching the following made me feel better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1YsbZeVNbU
20 augustus // Jun 24, 2008 at 7:15 pm
People are very safe locked up in solitary confinement, glad. I choose a reasonable amount of freedom and dignity, however. I’ve quit shopping in that store that marked my five.
21 missoldmacon // Jun 24, 2008 at 9:26 pm
My “gripe” is the fact that my children & grandchildren did not grow up in the day & age I did where life was so simple. My cousin & I would come in from grammar school in afternoons, change our clothes, jump on our bikes & off we went - - all over everywhere on public roads - - the only rules we had to abide by were “ride facing the traffic” (no sidewalks in our area) & “be home before dark”. Life was so good when I grew up - simple, kind and almost a “Mayberry” quality about it.
I also am griping because old Ragan’s Park is long gone - - another safe haven from my childhood. I also rejoice in the fact I got an excellent education in Bibb’s public schools then - - do they teach any history anymore? Do these kids today know anything about the Continental Congress, etc.? I think no - sadly.
& woe be unto me if I got into trouble in school - there was more trouble from that when I got home, too. One’s teachers & parents stuck together and kids knew it.
22 gladiator // Jun 24, 2008 at 9:55 pm
As usual, my phrase has to be one my mum taught me:
Yikes.
I feel pretty dadgum free and every time I beep at the airport, (go through the scanner again ma’am) I don’t mind. I have yet to miss a plane any place. I was not even upset in Italy when they said that to me in Italian. I know that I have a responsibility to respect authority. I won’t go into how the towers in Manhattan might still be there had someone stopped the pilots on 9/11.
23 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Well said, MissOldMacon. May God help us all, as these are very different times we live in today.
It’s unfortunate & very troubling that in many of today’s schools, so much valuable time has to be wasted on student discipline, and bureaucratic paperwork from the federal, state, county, and municipal governments.
It’s a wonder that many students learn anything at all………just look at the dropout rates in our public high schools in Georgia.
24 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:10 pm
The Italian authorities know that they are “not to mess” with a Gladiator.
25 gladiator // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Miss Old, I think I was out there until dark riding bikes with you! And maybe you heard me wail when I got the spanking for being a stinker at school. If you saw my hiney then and now, you would know it did me a lot more good than harm. I defend to the death the right of my parents to give me a good pop on the hiney. I don’t think it ever hurt that much, and made me straighten up and fly right. Today they would be reprimanded by child psychology experts. Gag.
26 Cotton Avenue Solon // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Please excuse me ladies & gentlemen, but I forgot to add the international government of the United Nations to the list of entities that could require bureaucratic paperwork from our public schools.
That’s right, if Kofi Annan, that brilliant & humanistic Ghanaian diplomat, could have his way, then Georgia schools could be reporting to the UN as well.
27 gladiator // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Read what a very liberal Wall St. Journal writer wrote 4 years ago about Kofi–not good. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006052
Sure it is all his fault, but it did not help that he went to college at Macalester….Long, long story.
28 missoldmacon // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Dear “Glad” - - deliver us all from the U.N. !!
29 gladiator // Jun 25, 2008 at 7:10 am
Dear MissOld:
How can good ideas go so bad? Are all of those guys educated at schools for the ultra rich? Wealthy people cannot run the country. Johnny McCain is not part of the landed gentry. Can you imagine John waking up one morning at the US Naval Academy and saying, “Sorry, I forgot to salute and I was having a bad day and the world political situation has me so down I have to see my therapist and ponder it for a time, so I cannot fall into formation today….”
The UN guys are often trained at these ivory tower places (Macalester, Havahd, etc) where picking the lint from your naval is considered aerobic and heavy lifting. Then they ponder their naval until they can get in with their therapist (who was educated by the landed gentry elite as well). Those soft, pseudo-monarchic intellectuals cannot build or preserve nations. Just ask Tony Blair…
30 gladiator // Jun 25, 2008 at 7:12 am
Great Britain has not yet toppled, but it sure is a bare shadow of what it was even 100 years ago….remind you of anyone???
31 Troy // Jun 25, 2008 at 9:33 am
Ah…why are folks making such a big deal about non-violent consenting adults at spas? If they don’t like the billboards, perhaps they should take that up with Lamar, Renfroe and other billboard companies. Funny that the spas don’t advertise anything sexual like Cafe Erotica, but I don’t hear any complaining about them and the milk carton girls on their signs.
32 augustus // Jun 25, 2008 at 11:20 am
Glad, security is good, an overbearing and disrespectful government is not. Read what Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had to say about the issue sometime.
33 gladiator // Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I was probably reading Jeffersonian and Madisonian things when you were still wearing knee-pants and suspenders, Gus. This ol’ lady has one thing to say: If you were talking about bad manners and disrespect, you need never go to that place again, (the Quickee Mart that highlighted your fiver). If it is our government, get on the horn today and call all elected officials, find out who the hooligan’s boss is. Get it resolved. There are people in power to make sure you get respect. Write letters to the Telegraph. Get specific and talk to the ones who are bosses of the bad manners guys. This happens in part because we sit here and let it happen. It is good to know that you know what good reading meaterial is–keep up the good work. We don’t need to be influenced by any silly ol Bill O’Reilly. I am sure if he read any Jefferson he probably misinterpreted it.
34 gladiator // Jun 25, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Someone please explain what general and specific awfulness goes along with the psuedo-spas…someone please. I cannot as it is making me a little bit queasy. It is certain kinds of towns that have all the certain kinds of pseudo-spas. I cannot go into much more.
35 augustus // Jun 25, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Glad, complaining will amount to nothing. Just a waste of time.
36 gladiator // Jun 25, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I have had good luck, but I have the advantage of a shrill, annoying voice when I am not happy, and a great incapacity to know when to shut up and stop the tirade. In all seriousness, I have seen the effects of letters I’ve written, phone calls made, and my annoying voice heard. It has worked for me in the past. I won’t say there aren’t times when folks acted oblivious…
37 Ima Thinkin // Jun 25, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I’ve had my money marked in the past, but I’ve understood that the stores were checking most of that particular denomination because they had been notified of a counterfeit problem. I’ve never taken it as a personal suggestion that I looked suspicious, nor have I ever felt that I was being treated like a criminal.
Augustus, you are right. “Complaining” will get you no where, but explaining how you view something as a problem and offering suggestions to the establishment as to how you want to be treated as a customer/patron/client really does work.
I also have to consider that it may be only my perspective, and, many times, that’s exactly what it turns out to be: only my perspective, and I’ve taken offense when none was intended.
I hate it when that happens.
38 rayjay // Jun 26, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Yo, lets nail Imus,s ass to wall. If you call it like it is,black or white,what the hell is the wrong this.
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