We made it to Harrisburg without any problems, other than me getting into a small fight at Roy Rogers fast food restaurant. As i was in line the older gentlemen in front of me became irate with the cashier because she made a mistake. Instead of three roast beefs and one cheesburger, she ran it in the opposite. He corrected her by sticking his arthritic digits in her face, yelling theumber. She got it right then, but the girl helping get food together asked which was to get and he barked at her and called them clueless. I couldot stay silent anymore. I said to him “hey they are getting it right, you dooteed to be so mean about it” He barked back “miind your own business, these girls are clueless” I looked at the girls and told them “He is just one of those people and just ignore him, dont let him ruin your day” he shut up and just scoffed at me. And when I got my food and walked from the counter he said something under his breath. So i asked “What was that”. He said soomethingasty like. “I just wanted my damn food” I looked back at him and told him “you’re an ass”. He then started to bow up at me, and asked me to step outside. I could doothing but chuckle at him. Here was a 5’5” 65 year old man wanting to fight me. And I forgot to point out there was a long line of people watching this guy and I. All I could get out was, “Youeed to just calm down, you are going to end up having a cardiac arrest. It was just a small mistake they made and you berated them. What gives you the right to treat people like that? They work their butt off for minimum wage. Do they deserve to have someone like you to yell at them?” Just then the guy behind me chimed in at him. “look, you were wrong to yell at them like that, just get your food and sit down, you are making a fool of yourself” I justodded a thank you, and headed on my way. Amazing what asses some people are!!
In the Harrisburg area we have friends, Ray, Monica, Megan, Emily, Nathan, and their puggle Gideon. We called ahead to aearby church to get permission to park in their lot and they were just fine with it. They had a great lot to park in, large, paved and level 🙂 It was also just across the street from their house. Instead of staying in the coach we stayed at their house. We had a great time.
We took Gideon for his first trip to a dog park, it was pretty much empty but it was a great way to get his feet wet. They were afraid Gideon was going to be aggressive with Jack and Jinny, but Jackever let that happen and took control from the beginning and actually was a bit of a bully.
The highlight of the visit was watching Miss Teen USA pageant. We witnessed live the train wreck of an answer given by Miss South Carolina. I cannot give it justice by writing the explanation so here is a link to view it on youtube.com
We laughed so hard we only heard the first part of the question, but thanks to the modern technology of DVRs, we could rewind it and watch it again. Watch it again we did, we watched it 5 times!!!! And it got better and funnier each time we saw it. It was amazing, you couldot script it to be any funnier. Fact is stranger than fiction. She will be famous for it. Within hours it was all over theet, people were dumbfounded!!&
We would like to give a special thanks to the Bichard family for the great hospitality, you have a beautiful home and family. We really had a blast and hope to be back forext year’s Miss Teen USA 🙂