Do we really belong in Kiawah?

Do we really belong in Kiawah?  We all have our own little quirks. Let me clarify, you all have quirks. 6 is normal, the bazaar behaviors of others is what 6 professionally calls abnormal (pronounced Abby normal).  One could argue that 6 posses the traits which might fall into that category, but then again thru 6’s eyes that is just normal , “it is the way it is”. For example one may assume that performing activities consistently on time is obsessive behavior, to a person with superior intelligence it is clinically considered normal behavior. For example: watching Christmas Vacation at 7:00 thanksgiving night,  Cheese/crackers and Rex Friday night at 5:45, shot of Jack at 8:00 on March 15^th, Church  at 5:00, grocery shopping at 8:00, leave for Vacation at 5:30, Spaghetti  at 7:00 on Saturday night on Vacation,  Fish sandwich at 2:00 on Good Friday, Trip to Belk at 8:00 (by the way Pandora has a Belk station now featuring southern contemporary Blues/Jazz and Rock), Rex on the beach at 5:00, gym at 7:00, 6 thinks you get the point. They are not quirks, but facts of life, now that I look over the list, half of those things are tied to drinking!….Oh well..  Now I will describe a quirk…. 7’s fascination with waffle house! Think about this for a minute, you are on vacation in a place where the whole family could pool all of their resources and not be able to pay the HOA fee’s on a mobile home in the back 40.   We are surrounded by natures glory, multi-million dollar homes, 5 star restaurants, resorts, all with-in a 10 minute walk of the front stoop.  Here is the background.. as OA, 4, 32, 71, 7 and 8 and their luggage for a week piled into a car designed for 4 passengers passed the waffle house on their way to Kiawah, it was said that 7 was hungry, and just had to stop there, no place else and get some grub. When 8 told him that he was not stopping, 7 was as disappointed as a gator in a cage surrounded by raw meat.  For the next five days, 7 begged everyone who had a car to take him to waffle house. It actually was not as bad as one might think telling him NO every hour on the hour, for the disappointment on his face was worth the aggravation. As with anything it all came to a head on Wed afternoon when 7 went over to Scooter and asked him if he would drive him to waffle house. Can you just imagine that! When he was turned down by Scooter, he came walking back to the group of us sitting there and said What! At that point 4 with her big heart told 7 that she would take him Thursday morning.  So Thursday morning off they went, 4 giving up a day on the beach, but 7 as happy as a pig in slop. What made me think of this is the other night there was a guy on the radio talking about his trip to Fredrick to shop for cheap booze. As the story goes, he was on 70 and saw a waffle house, (there you go 7 you could come on thanksgiving and stop on the way!) and being from the south just had to stop in and have a meal. For the next 20 minutes that is all he talked about. He never made it to the chap booze, but the waffles there must really be something! Well here are some things that you never knew about waffle house.  Joe Rogers, Sr. and Tom Forkner -- founded Waffle House in 1955, "Covered" is with cheese, "smothered" is with onions, "chunked" is with ham, "topped" is with chili, "diced" is with tomatoes, "peppered" is with peppers, "capped" is with mushrooms, "scattered" is spread on the grill, and "all the way" is something high schoolers traditionally talk a big game about ordering after prom everything, you gluttonous madman, it is open absolutely every day of the year, it  gets  a classy makeover on Valentine's Day , FEMA actually uses something called the Waffle House Index to determine the severity of hurricane damage, Waffle House has hosted World Waffle-Eating Championships, in which competitive eaters shove as many as they can into their face for $7500. There you go! So if you notice that 4 and 7 are mysteriously missing from the beach someday, you know where they are headed!

Words of Wisdom: Keep perusing the good, for it is right in-front of you