Signs of a Post-Snowpocalyptic Decatur
Decatur Metro | January 12, 2011
Photos of empty grocery shelves have gotten some of us thinking that this could be the end of post-industrial society as we know it. Honestly, a life without Cheetos and fudgesicles hardly seems a life worth living.
But what are some other major indicators of a post-snowpocalyptic world? I only ask because I need to know when it’s time to grab the baby and the bourbon and head for the hills (aka, the North Georgia “mountains”).
Is it hungry children chasing cats through our streets? Grown, sober men turned away from a shuttered Brick Store in tears? Kids banging on the doors of the Decatur High pleading to be taught?
When will we know that Decatur has gone from bad to totally nutso?
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When Taco Mac is open but not WalMart…
How come the baby is apparently in flight? Is this the new Clark Kent?
When the Diner would have been closed anyway.
That is one adorable hunk of a baby!
Oh My Goodness! Is that Baby DM?!? He’s ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!!! Kitten’s precious too!
When the coyotes (out of snowbound apathy?) lie down together with our cats.
1) When the Decatur Diner opens.
2) When I make this joke.
Bulldog- All your upfront work for this joke paid off! Big laugh! :0)
I planned it that way!
When TDS displays their newly purchased high chairs out front so that customers will return…
LOL!! In addition to everything cubalibre quoted.
I thought I had an immunity to baby and kitten pix. Ahhhwwwww…
Out of Gas signs on all the gas stations.
So, you better make sure your bike is in working condition and you have a trailer to pull your baby and bottle of bourbon to those great North GA mountains or it is going to be a long walk.
Apocalypse started the moment teenage moms became celebrities and are more famous than the President.
I’m missing my newspapers, the AJC and WSJ. There is something about getting information from a paper- , news, opinion page, metro section, obituaries, sports, Dilbert, Pearls Before Swine, and more. It starts my day off right. Using the internet for this always leaves me a little empty. I find myself constantly checking the on-line sources for the latest update, especially DM and not being satisfied, going to the next site for the latest ice sculpture picture, comment about school closing, or posting on what business is open or closed. Snowpocalypse Overload? What’s up with that?
Now I wish I had given the paper delivery man a tip at Christmas.
I’m shocked, Mr. B. I had you pegged for someone who would NEVER forget to tip all the appropriate folks. On the other hand, now that we never see the newspaper deliverer or get a note or hand-delivered bill or anything, it’s hard to know how to tip him/her!
Our newspaper carrier included a holiday greeting flyer in our Sunday paper early in the holiday season. And everybody knows (and loves) our postal delivery person.
I’ve tried to formulate something witty or wry that involves Starbux beverages, but all I can think is
“Why can’t they deliver?”
and
“Whatever to their canned ice coffee beverages?” (not the frappuccinos or double shots)
Starbux stopped selling coffee long ago and shifted to primarily selling milk and sugar beverages, coffee flavor optional. Their recent removal of the word “coffee” from their logo was long overdue.
Sad, really. As recent as the early 2000’s, Starbucks took huge pride in their baristas and their barista training program and paid them pretty well. Now they hire minimum-wage, easy-come, easy-go button-pushers.
They are now the McDonald’s of overpriced, sugary beverages.
Make that “whatever happened to their canned ice coffee beverages”
I hear ya, David H. on the milk and sugar concoctions. I remember when the “vanilla latte” wasn’t even on the menu. One had to think creatively to conceive of a flavor shot added to a latte.
But are they really the McDonald’s of non-carbonated, caffeinated beverages? Could they be the Wendy’s or the Arby’s? The Checkers? Captain Ds…Long John Silvers! I’ll stop while I’m ahead.
Since I’ve been 98.5% gluten and wheat-free for nearly a year, I’ve had to abstain from all kinds of sweet things (donuts, pastries, cinnabons). Over the holidays I’d tried their Cinnamon Dulce Latte and wasn’t too unsettled by the taste. I can now have drink down the flavor of a cinnabon w/o compromising on my solid food dietary intake (or non-intake).
I see what you mean by the loosening of barista skill standards… the same drink seldom tastes consistently good across stores or baristas at the same store.
anyone recvd any mail service this week? ( not that I really want to see all those bills)
we got mail yesterday for the first time this week
Me too!
We haven’t received mail in weeks, but most likely because our substitute delivery person couldn’t find the gate key and just decided to not try very hard. So the snowmageddon is just another day here!
No mail yet on 2nd Ave. : (
The apocalypse had clearly begun by the moment I said to myself “Maybe I’ll move to Suwanee so that next time it snows I’ll have clear streets to drive on”!
Lordy, Honey! Suwanee would NOT know what to make of you!
(And we couldn’t do without you! :0)
You’re probably right, Deanne! I guess I’ll stay. Thanks for the love
:0) !!!
Indeed, Suwanee didn’t know what to make of me, so they kicked me out. We live in Decatur now.
Actually, I lived in Sugar Hill and still work in Suwanee, but close enough.
Dear Suwanee: Give us your rabble rousers– and hands off ours! :0)
Oakhurst stroller patrols fitted out with sled runners instead of wheels.
awesomely cute baby there, DM.
on the “no mail for you “note– have witnessed several postal trucks down our street, but nary a note to our coventry address.. not even junk mail!
Sorry guys, not my baby.
Still a very cute picture !
A baby fakeout!!! Or a “Maury” episode!!!
Got mail on Adair Street yesterday. Saw a postal worker walking home, too.
DM, seriously, I have plenty of food and know how to cook. Please don’t feed the baby cats.I can help.
Even tho it’s not DM’s bebeh, the kid in the pix is still a cutie-patootie! It won’t be The Apocalypse until we see (to quote the immortal words of the Ghostbusters): “Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…the dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!”
Too much? OK, probably.
Ahh…yeah. Photoshop’ed. I just noticed the baby is floating/flying and the “shadow” under the kid and the kitten are totally fake. Still very cute, though.
Snow did what many ‘Go-green’ campaings couldn’t: get a lot of people walking the streets instead of using their cars. To me that is the sign of a post-snowpocalyptic world. Unfortunately, once it thaws, is back to the cars for most.
Agree. I had to drive some for work and food yesterday and found people walking in areas where on never sees walkers! But I also saw some scarey things–a very senior senior citizen stuck in the intersection at N. Druid Hills and Clairemont, slipping and looking confused. We need better options for folks like him.
Oh my… how frightened he must have been. Did anyone go to help him?