We’re having the opposite problem in Little Rock.
Teens are turning the roads into drag strips.
The parking lot at Park Plaza mall has skid marks from cars doing donuts. This is only 6 miles from my neighborhood. Thankfully I haven’t gone out at night since April.
We’re definitely living through some strange times. 2020 reminds me (a little) of Mad Max’s world.
Beck, have you decorated your mask yet?
I drew a skull & crossbones on mine. 
Gotta grab some fun somehow.
Oh, yeah. We are decorating masks.
Not that we’re using them much. Very minute exposure to the out side world.
I got a box of 100 masks early on. Mr.Wrek took 20 with him to Georgia. The place he’s working at is also providing them for him.
We are masked up. I like a smile face on mine.
@panache45, check out that Arby’s shake, before you indulge.
It’s been several years since I’ve had one. They might have changed the ingreds.
“Said Beckdawrek: Oh man. I wish there was an Arby’s here.
I could have the $1 little milk shake they offered…”
If you come visit me we can go to Arby’s number 4 around the corner. I bet you live near Walmart number 4.
Dennis
Really, now this is new I use! I know where I am going to lunch right now.
Hi, @mixdenny,. Dude, I think I live close to Walmart #2.
I hear tell Arby’s serves COKE now!
My Arby’s indulgence is the ArbyQ with horsey sauce. Haven’t been to one in ages. The nearest one to the kids’ house in SCal is maybe 15 miles, with horrendous traffic. For our house in AZ, the nearest one is about 35? miles, with no traffic.
Scenery is a helluva lot nicer, too.
~VOW
The DQ in Beck’s part of the state is really good. I’ve stopped there a few times whenever I visited friends. They work at the University. The beer virus changed all that. Maybe I’ll visit again in a year or two.
Yep, DQ is very good. Clean and well managed.
I painted a mural on one of the walls in there.
Some Fun Trivia…
There’s a BW photo of a band that hangs in most DQ’s.
https://images.app.goo.gl/fZCxBuB2nHhjkPnM7
It’s a local high school band from Hope AR called the Zonks. They performed a concert on top of the DQ in Hope around 1967 or 68?
I was just a annoying pipsqueak kid. But heard them practicing many times. 2 members of the band lived on my street. Unfortunately I wasn’t at their DQ concert. Past my bedtime.
There’s a Zonks tribute vid on YouTube. The only recorded audio that I’ve ever heard. It’s an early Rolling Stones cover.
Oh, Wow! That’s very cool!
I wondered about that picture for years.
Thanks, Acey.
Funny how a small town is associated with events. Mike Huckabee and Bill Clinton are from Hope. A small DQ rock band promotion in Hope could have easily been forgotten. But they used that photo as wall art in their restaurants.
The Zonks broke up after high school and left for college.
Is that the one in Rogers? Although I guess that location was the first to have the Walmart name, presently the Walmart museum.
I bet you have driven past ol’ Sam in his battered pickup and didn’t realize you were passing a guy who’s stores bring in a half a billion dollars a year.
Dennis
Crap. That should be half a Trillion. Never underestimate someone from the back woods and that includes Sam, Clinton and B-B-B Beck!
Dennis
If she’s driven past ol’ Sam in his pickup at some point in the past 28 years, then she also didn’t realize she was driving past an undead tycoon. 
Wow, you guys are bringing back really old memories. We used to shop there all the time, and would go to the movies at that same shopping center, or right next door. That was a long long time ago.
You made me go look up my childhood home. Just a few miles north of there.
I am sure I never saw Sam in his truck. This was after Wal-Mart started getting big, but I still heard he still drove the old pickup even after he was a rich man.
Heh! @ Kenobi_65,
Walmart may be the first undead corporation.
No problem. I hear she is waaaay older then 28. And I think they preserved Sam with a salt water pond bath.
Dennis
So true! 