Jeremy Herndon

I thought I’d write a post about what I think about the three “big” fast food chain restaurants that I frequent. All in all, I like the French fries and McDonald’s the best, if I can get them HOT. That has been the biggest problem I’ve had with McDonald’s, the French fries I get are frequently COLD, and then that is disgusting. Their chicken sandwiches are pretty good, too. Their burgers, well, I don’t like them. I’ll eat them if I have to, but I don’t like them. So when I go there I usually order a chicken sandwich and fries.

For burgers, my favorite burgers are Burger King burgers. I LOVE the char-broiled taste! But their fries are pretty nasty, even if they ARE hot. So I’ll order the onion rings instead! They are pretty good, and neither McDonald’s nor Wendy’s sells onion rings. Their chicken products have way too much pepper in them and every time I forget and order some chicken from them I regret it.

Now Wendy’s, I like to go there and order their baked potato! Their burgers are better than McDonalds, and their chicken sandwiches are good, too. Their fries are acceptable, but I do NOT order Sprite to drink because their Sprite is always super NASTY! So I have to order root beer instead, which is ok, but I would prefer Sprite if it tasted the right way! I do wish that Wendy’s had milk shakes, their Frosty’s just are not that great a substitute!

Well, being true to my sex, I have left much of my shopping undone until today.  I don’t know why I wait until the last minute!  We got off of work about 10am this morning, and I went and did my shopping then.  It’s very interesting to see how many men are at the stores at the same time!  I ran into a few friends of mine, and we all had a good laugh about how we all wait until the last minute to buy our gifts!  Usually I see the store shelves pretty bare, this year I was surprised to see how full they still are!  Well, anyway, I got my shopping done, I hope yours is done too!

Well I woke up this morning and saw a wintry mess out there - freezing rain, snow, nasty stuff.  I sure was glad that I got around to putting my studded snow tires on my car Friday!  I had heard that we were going to be getting some bad weather right off, and decided not to put it off any longer.  There were several times last year that I slid off of the road because I didn’t have my studded tires put on the car.  That’s one mistake that I don’t want to repeat!  This area gets too icy for just plain old “all weather tires.”

This morning I was listening to the radio on my way to work and the disk jockey was talking about having gone to a local school’s Christmas concert over the weekend.  He apparently has been going to this particular school’s concert for many years; I suspect he probably has family members that go there.  I don’t think he has kids that “go there” as students, perhaps they go as teachers or support staff.  I’m basing that on the fact that he commented on being born early enough to be wearing a “Davy Crockett” raccoon hat when the Davy Crockett show came out on television in 1954.  So I have to guess that he was born in the late 40’s.  Anyway, he was playing the song “Sleigh Ride” which has several whip cracks in it.  (I like that song!) 

After the song he was talking about having a conversation with the director of the band that had held the Christmas concert and he asked him what the name of the instrument is that makes the noise of the whip crack.  He was very surprised to learn that the name of the instrument is, in fact, “whip crack.”  I had to laugh at the story because a few years ago I had asked a relative of mine who was in a high school band at the time the exact same question, and got the same answer, and how dumb I felt when he told me the answer!  So it’s nice to know I’m not the only “dummy” out there that didn’t know what that instrument was called!

I understand that there are several organizations that have arranged to get folks to send Christmas cards and gifts over to the folks serving away from home.  And some have arranged to send the soldiers blank holiday cards to send them for the soldiers to use.  I think that’s wonderful, and I truly hope that they soldiers have as good a Holiday season as possible and that they are home again by the next Christmas!