Waitresses - I Know What Boys Want

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. I Dig It

They way she sneers "Sucker" is priceless.

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2. She was awaitress at a restaurant in Akron, where members of Tin Huey hung out ...

... one of the members liked her attitude, wrote the song, and they went to LA and formed the waitresses. She later died of some sort of weird respiratory infection that killed her within a week of getting it.

Rock and roll is heartless master.

The Huey player now owns Jeffery Dahlmer's childhood home.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Recall It Was Lung Cancer

But, that it was very aggressive & it moved so fast there was nothing that could be done.
She was a heavy smoker & I caught up to her all at once.
A shame.
Interesting factoid about the guy owning Dahmer's house. Creepy.

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4. It was a spec investment. He had some t-shirts made - "Akron: We eat the weak". ...

... I was given one by a member of Huey I've been close friends with since 7th grade and I never wore it, and it finally disappeared.

I still don't think he's sold it, though it's been on the market for a long while. It's in a desirable part of Summit County and I think it'll be bought (if it hasn't been already), as a lot and torn down and built over.

We have a tendency to a graveyard humor in Akron (What Dahlmer said to Loraina Bobbit - "you gonna eat that?" ), but the whole story is too horrible for me to find much funny about.

Even speaking it about it on Christmas Eve makes me feel like a creep.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. BTW...

...I've been to Akron a few times.
In my wind down days of the job, and I quit international travel (well, anything that required a plane) a customer was having a product stability issue & I went to help.
Got dog in car & drove there. Stayed near Middleburg Heights which was just a few miles from the customer site. I could pass on lunch & take doggie out for a walk.
6 weeks after my last trip there, I retired.

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6. As a lad in the 50s, we'd go swimming in Berea Lake, until Polio hit and the word was ...

... Berea Lake was a vector for Polio. My dad had a construction company and in the 60s I carried a lot of brick and block, mixed a lot of mud building homes around Middleburg and Middlebur Hts. One of our customers were the Zakaronavics. Great name. Rough getting paid, by we knew to lien every job. That guy owned properties all over NE Ohio and I actually rented one unknowingly in Akron. A jackass land lord.