Hooters and Home Depot

I am not sure I know what to write on this here blog.  I originally thought that this blog was created as a testament to the year of our Spats turning the big 4-0.  That as the year progressed, he would do something once a month in honor of the occasion. 

I will say that in honor of my friend turning 40 this year, I am going to share with you something I learned recently.

I travel all over this great country bringing joy to the masses.  One week I might be in LA, another week I am in Boise.  There are two things that bind us all together.  North and South. East and West.  It is two places that in every city in America you can find Sanctuary.  It is the only fact that is true of Ft. Worth TX and Washington DC.

Hooters and Home Depot.

You will find both of those establishments in every single city in America, and while I don't frequent either of them.  (In all honesty I went to Hooters for the first time two weeks ago to get a gift certificate for a friend) I find comfort in seeing their signs from the highway as we pull into town.  It is kind of like being in a strange place and running into a relative you hate at the grocery store.  Comforting.

yes, I am a woman.  I should have a problem with Hooters, but I hear the wings are great, so who am I to judge.  I just wish there was another equally as comforting a place called BALLS.

Well that wouldn't work.  Men love boobs.  Most women just tolerate Balls.  So it would called BROAD SHOULDERS.

Yes the female equivalent would be Broad Shoulders.

What would be the female Home Depot???  Hmmm.  I am open to suggestion.  I actually love Home Depot, but it does lose me after a time. This is not to say I am a home improvement moron.  I am/am not.  Ok I am.  I am a home improvement moron, but I could make you a pair of earrings UNPARALLELED by any dude who could fix your house.  And Not for Nothing but the Home Depot blows Lowes out of the water.  The selection for dowel screws completely sucks at Lowes.  They had only three sizes.  Ridiculous.

Honestly, I have no idea.  I was with my boss today at Lowes and he was picking out screws and hardware and I was looking at ceramic sink bowls and dreaming of my log cabin house on the north face of Mt Hood outside Portland (my dream which doesn't exist)(yet)  He was bitching and moaning about the selection.  I was yawning.

BUT

My point is there is no female equivalent of Home Depot because it is ambisexual. (  Is that a word??)  No matter what, I did think of Tony.  Tony would appreciate my comfort in seeing Hooters and Home Depot.  And that is saying something, cuz not everyone would.

I miss Tony.

I really do.

Admit it...you do too.

-GirlFran-