The true heroes of the early Rita panic are not the mayor (though we love him) nor the country commissioners (we like them pretty much, too), and certainly not the feds (though they are trying to avoid the debacle that they stepped into in New Orleans) No, the true heroes of today are the poor services workers who are still doing their jobs.
We don’t want to start cutting into our larder yet, so we have been trying to eat out today, and maybe tomorrow. So at lunch today (Thursday, at least 36 hours before landfall) we thought we would go and have some lunch. We don’t want to drive (saving gas) and walked to a nearby, wonderful Sushi restaurant. We saw people walking into the place, but they were family and carrying food. The funny thing was that the food they were carrying was cans of Spam. Got to wonder what will be in those California rolls next month.
We then walked past Rouge, a fancy place, it was closed. Felix’s, a horrible Mexican place, and it was closed. Taco Cabana, a pretty good (and quite well known Montrose institution, even if it is a chain) and it was closed. But Schlotsky’s, a bankrupt sandwich place was open. Yea! The staff was harried, but pleasant. THEY were working. I wasn’t. It took an hour to get a sandwich, but that was OK.
Then for dinner, we walked to a local fish taco place called Berryhill Taco (it is a local chain), and it was PACKED! The staff was, again, pleasant in the face of less than friendly customers. I tipped big and said they were my heroes for the night.
Don’t forget these folks. They don’t get paid much, but they show up. Not like those losers at the TSA in the Houston Airport!
More later.
You must enlighten your non-US readers what the 'TSA' is or are - and of course why they are so tardy.
ReplyDeleteTSA is the Transportation Security Administration. They are the ones that make you take your shoes off in an airport. They decided that they didn't want to go to work that day, and didn't bother to tell anyone.
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