Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:00:00 -0400From: Dan Cahoon 

I have enjoyed the last quiet sandwich on my front porch in the middle of the day on a Wednesday. Wednesday is so rarely a day off from school, and is not made better by any comparisons to humps. For the next 36 Wednesdays I shall be eating my lunch surrounded by either excited and energized children or exhausted and chatty fellow teachers. I enjoy the conversation and fellowship, occasionally, the food, but nothing compares to that magical silent meal on my front porch in the summer. It really is too hot to sit outside but I endure it out of spite. At this point in the summer I know how little relaxed outdoor time I will be experiencing for many many many months, so I force myself to be outside doing something self indulgent.The hummingbirds and the gold finches can take it, then so can I. I sit and munch at my leisure, unaware of the time or any kind of schedule.

I have been looking forward to sitting and drinking a true pint at a bar that doesn't smell like feet and chatting with others so inclined. I am not too picky when it comes to bars, but in my stage of existence I find comfort and quality to be rather important.

It has not always been this way for me. For several years in my college days I frequented a tiny little dive just far enough away from school to slide under the radar. The floor was sticky and the air smoky. I remember holding my 5'8" own in a sea of drunken giants, somehow managing to fight my way to the bar and back to my "spot" near the foosball table. This bar was not quiet, or clean, but it rocked. 

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From Chatlist #2890 -

Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:17:17 -0500
From: meg_miller…bellsouth.net
Subject: Give the Brewery a break already

As a Chathamite and long time chatlist member, I am embarrassed to read the whining complaints about the Carolina Brewery.

I hope that the two of you also took the time to complain to the manager or owner. If you had, I’m sure your meal would have been comped and they would continue to work on fixing the problems.

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:19:07 +0000
From: JeffLane-san
Subject: An answer to Meg Miller.

Chatham Chatlist wrote:

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>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:17:17 -0500
>From: meg_miller…bellsouth.net
>Subject: Give the Brewery a break already
>
>As a Chathamite and long time chatlist member, I am embarrassed to read the whining complaints
>about the Carolina Brewery. I hope that the two of you also took the time to complain to the manager or owner. If you had, I’m sure your meal would have been comped and they would continue to work on fixing the problems.

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