"Jim Lane" > wrote in message
...

> > Speaking of hasty judgments, maybe "Wacky Waco" is one, especially
if
> > you know nothing about the town.
> >
> > David
> >
>
> And you do? Or are you making a judgement yourself? Double standard in
> play, I'm betting.

So far as I gather David is in San Antonio where I also keep a place,
although I'm seldom there. He might have grown up in or around Waco and
taken offense at my off hand remark. He assumed I may not have known
anything about Waco. In fact when I returned from Southeast Asia in 68'
I was in the hospitial at Fort Hood for six months, went to Waco esp. to
eat
at a fair German place in the old Holiday Inn.

I had a contractor who was from Waco working on a couple places I have
in the Hill Country. He did dirt work, put in driveways, cleared areas
along the river and yacked a lot. That fellow had a lot of stories
about growing up in Waco.

I travel a great deal both in an out of Texas. The Central region,
Coastal planes and Boarder-Plex from Brownsville to
Del Rio I know particularly well. What's happened to small towns and
regional food is depressing. Fast food has replaced
many of the local eateries, Wal-Mart has run many small town stores out
of business and the kids leave town after high school.
In some towns a prison facility or grocery store may be the largest
employer, this is sad. Of one thing you can be sure, doc can always
find the nearest good place to eat be it a taco shack. I might go on to
say; an a few places, in this ever increasing cut'-n-dried state, where
a little magic exist.

What the Hell, I just wanted to know a little more about lingua. :-)


doc