Last night while shopping with the men I could have pulled my hair out. There is only so much you can handle in a Super Target. So while dropping Tim back home he yells out from the back seat, "You know what I'd like to do?""What Tim.."
"I'd like to take you to Ground Round."
Not being the first time he has said this to me but it always makes me laugh really hard. I don't have the heart to tell him Ground Rounds don't exist anymore or that my only faint memory of going to a Ground Round was eating ice cream out of a plastic baseball cap. I kind of recall that they had a childrens deal that what ever your child weighed it was how much you would pay. This sounds like a great deal for most adults because a usual five year old probably weighs about thrity pounds, meaning what I would assume about three dollars. Considering at a glance from a distance I closely resembled a large truck tire rolling around the streets as form of getting to one place to another, I guess for my family it wasn't really all that much of a deal.
So Today I am thankful for laughter. When your with your friends, watching a comedy or reading a David Sedaris book it comes very easy sometimes. Last night it lifted my mood and I realized that laughter in hard situations is really something to be appreciated.
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Carrie you're bringing back some intense memories for me. When I was a kid, we lived two blocks from a Ground Round, and used to go there every week for pay what you weigh day. We'd wait at the entrance for what seemed like hours stuffing our faces with free popcorn. I'd usually eat hot dogs, with a bun lightly grilled like no other i can remember. There was a clown there that would make balloon animals for us. It seems like i always got a turtle. It was really great. Then one day the clown started painting a single teatdrop on his face in memory of his dead son. Then one day the Ground Round was gone forever. Man o man what a bizarre trip down memory lane.
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