You Know You’re an Interstate Yuppie If…
Tonight’s entry proudly sponsored by The Map Room, a neat little spot in downtown Memphis next to a trolley stop.
1. You bring your own ground coffee, press pot, and stop in gas stations for hot water.
2. The towering Starbucks sign, a beacon of hope and light–not for coffee, but for a New York Times
3. You count the different kinds of fonts used on billboards
4. You stop in Cracker Barrel for Burt’s Bees lip balm.
5. When you pass crumbling, abandoned gas stations and other Americana icons, you want to stop and shoot pictures.
6. You say, “I don’t think they have NPR in Arkansas.”
7. You pack Odwalla juice along with your Lunchables.
8. You compare and contrast the architectural distinctions of state rest stops.
9. You drive twenty miles past the exit ramp fast-food joints to lunch at a diner in some random town’s historic district.
10. Will enter this one on the way home…
December 21st, 2002
snail
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
You so funny. Write something on a Texaco bathroom wall for me. You make me long for the days when I was a truck driver for Swanson?s frozen foods. I would haul chickens to a processing plant in flint Michigan and then haul thousands of frozen “by products” back down through Ohio and the Midwest to a little town just outside Laredo. I remember stopping for coffee at 3 in the morning when the ice had frozen the doors closed on my rig and I would have to crawl out the window and swing down from the mirror to get out. All night I would sit on the side of the interstate waiting for the roads to open so I could get all the chickens to the slaughterhouse. Yep, those were good times. Ok?that?s all made up but I?m pretty sure I could have been a good truck driver with stories like that.