Tuesday, December 30, 2008

 

This is closure?

My first stop upon arrival in Macon actually wasn't to find Penny's grave. Penny was my third stop. My first stop was to visit my friend Preston who is in a different cemetery. I'd been unable to get by on my last couple of trips and a visit was long overdue. I don't have any pictures of that stop for two reasons. First of all you can search my blog for Preston and find pictures already. The second reason is that while visiting with Preston, one of the cemetery workers came down the hill to tell me a funeral would be coming through in about 10 minutes if I wouldn't mind at least moving my car. Riverside Cemetery has lots of roads running through it but they are only one car wide. I usually try to take a moment to clean off an of the debris (leaves, branches, acorns) that tends to gather and let him know when I plan to be back. This was the first time I'd ever been "rushed" out of there and I just left feeling unsettled. Sort of like having a good conversation interrupted and you never get a chance to get back to it.
From Riverside Drive I headed up to Vineville Avenue to see something I didn't really WANT to see, but that I needed to see.
It is true. I cannot live in denial anymore. My Krystal is closed.
In fact if you didn't know it, you probably wouldn't know it was a Krystal. There is NOTHING left that says Krystal. All signage is gone. The chairs and tables and basic cooking fixtures are there but everything else is gone. Even the Krystal Logos that used to be on the door handles are gone. The entire drive thru menu is gone.

Gone

As I drove around Macon over the next few days, I began to notice a lot of places had closed. Some that had been around for as long as I can remember. I knew Macon was going down hill when I left a year and a half ago, but coming back after being gone so long really opened my eyes.

This was my friend Natasha's house.
I jokingly tell people that I "escaped from Macon." It sounds funny. But the longer I think about it, the more I realize that I got out at perhaps the best possible time. I will still return to visit very dear friends who still live there. I certainly have a lot of history in that city. Every time I go back it gets more and more obvious that I no longer have a future in Macon.
Krystal Lovers get more in the sack!.

# posted by JasonJ1052 @ 12:20 AM
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