Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for March 14, 2023

“Mmmm, doughnuts… is there nothing they can’t do?”- Homer Simpson

now i know what people who are busy with their phones talk about

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You just take the turn where that tree used to be.

Now that I am an old person I have a great deal of sympathy for the attitude of the folks who were old persons when I was a young one. One tends to look back to previous decades with rose colored nostalgia and to forget about things like diseases that are now curable or preventable or social ills that seemed to be getting better not too far back but are taking a sharp turnaround back to the not so good old days.

Any excuse for doughnuts. Thanks, Grandma! Thanks, Dan!

Dan finished with a silly question today.

Gotta have some doughnuts. If I don’t, I’ll go nuts!

For the last 6 years we’ve lived in a donut desert. There are two donut shops in town. One is second rate and the other is third rate. We have a 45 minute round trip to the nearest decent shop.

I drive to work at 3:30am, and pass by 5 donut shops…and they’re all closed, until 5am! : (

Mmmm… donuts…..

I miss the donuts from the Judy Jane Bakery in the next town over from where I grew up — the town with, like, almost 5,000 people. Never found out if that was the founder’s first and middle names, or first and last names. As a kid, I thought it was the two ladies who worked there. They had free sample cookies for kids when my Dad came in to buy bread. Sigh. The owners retired, the developers leveled it, and put up a Starbucks on the property.