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January 8th 04, 05:24 PM

"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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From: (Jerry Oxendine)
"gw" wrote in message
oh great a hillbilly from north carolina is talking to riley
hollingsworth on the phone.....riley..them dadburn good buddies ara
takin over our ten meters saahh!! what is you going to do bout it????
beam me up scotty.....

Believe it or not--I don't care. Do a little

digging and find out where HE is from! He is

just as "hillbilly" as *I* am. His hometown is

ROCK HILL, SC--'bout 40 miles from here.

That freakin' Golden Corral near the mideastern-owned grocery store
changed their damn menu....now it's buffet only,,who the hell wants a
one-steak-fits-all from a buffet line? Can't even ORDER a steak at a
steakhouse? Yankees hacking and sneezing and snottin' all over the hot
food line,,,,and this place still has the audacity to call itself a
steakhouse? I tell ya, Jer,,,,I'm finding me a new town for my
layovers,,,Perhaps Orangeburg has a real steakhouse,,,don't get me
started on Charlotte, as I've never seen the traffic so bad in,,,,,ever!

EW, let me tell you about Charlotte!!! Traffic is so bad because it was
(used to be/wannabe) just another small
town like mine. Then they wanted to be on the "map" like
Atlanta, or Washington DC. Never saw such an inferiority complex. They
didn't think about what traffic would be 20 years into the future (1969) and
when they
realized.......hey we better DO something, it was too late.
The population rose so fast, the county/city gov'ts recruited companies so
fast, they couldn't handle it. They
hemmed and hawed around for those 20 years deciding
where/how/when a beltline would go (I-485), and it is only 1/2 complete. If
you have been thru Clt lately you
will see the latest segment going in on the west side towards Belmont. I
have watched in awe and dismay as
this pretty town is now becoming just like Philly, Boston,
or New York. They have a long way to get there yet, but
believe me it's on its way. They wanted SOOO bad to be a big city. That
section of I-485 once was a beautiful golf course with rolling hills and
immaculate greens. (now it is a sea of mud). Traffic will soon roll
unknowingly over
what was once the 18th hole. Ah, progress. (sigh)
You once could walk up and down Trade and Tryon streets without fear (the
square). No more. Crimes such
as murder have risen dramatically. The Charlotte landscape/roadscape has
changed so much that someone who left Charlotte 15 years would not recognize
Independence Blvd--heck it doesn't even take the same route exactly; it ends
abruptly near Kings Dr. and takes
up somewhere else. The Wachovia Tower (bank) and
other downtown skyscrapers make Trade street dusky
dark and the "designers" work desperately to turn the town into permanent
twilight. I hate to go down there.
A friendly, medium-sized city has now become an intimi-
dating place. So what price, this progress, eh?

Jerry