Being a pilot, my dad had an opportunity to visit many restaurants in different locations across the US and beyond. Over one trip in the early 90's, he returned talking about this place called "Hooters." The restaurant they apparently visited was family-friendly and even had male waitstaff, plus they served these great chicken wings.
So off my family goes, and I can still remember it was the Hooters in Arlington's Lincoln Square, my sister was roughly in her late teens and I was roughly in my early teens (maybe 12 or 13). We enter the restaurant and I have no doubt I will never forget the horror that my tween eyes encountered. Men were everywhere, leering at my sister, and the waitresses that had their t-shirts pulled up and back with rubber bands.
I was horrified and disappointed. Why on earth would a girl want to reduce themselves in that way?
I refused to drink even water from this establishment or look at the waitress the entire time. I would not eat and wouldn't even order.
So this may be why I have such an aversion to places of this nature...
Me from roughly the time period of the "offense"
I think dad was confused as to what he "thought" the place was as well. I've yet to meet anyone anywhere who has been to a HOOTERS that was family friendly with male waitstaff. I mean really, the place is named HOOTERS? I saw a documentary on the original location and it was EXACTLY like the franchises here - girls in booby shirts!
ReplyDeleteThere is a place in lewisville that annoys me like Hooters. It's called Twin Peaks and I always feel sorry for the places next door that are family friendly. Today Mauricio said when he drove by on 35 they had their waitresses out in the windy afternoon in BIKINIS going down one of those inflatable water slides waving for people to go in the "restaurant".
Live and learn as they say.......true? I enjoyed the story about HOOTERS and smiled alittle just thinking about what your expression was at that moment? I also truly appreciate your ideals about life in general and will never have to worry about My Grandbabies and their outlook on life and God's will for ALL of us! Hang in There, MiMi
ReplyDeleteThis made me laugh. ;)
ReplyDeleteGood for you (the little you)! I feel the same way about Hooters and Twin Peaks and all those places. You were so cute!
ReplyDeleteBill says he remembers when Hooters finally came to Vancouver in the mid-90s. His grandpa, who was in his 70s, was SO excited. He took Bill and his brother out to lunch the minute it opened. Bill was 25, so it didn't make a huge impression on him.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you have to be a man to appreciate a place like Hooters.
Jesus Christ (the Son of God) said--"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." (Matthew 7:1-5)
ReplyDeleteThe "let he who is without sin, cast the first stone" incident is one of the most well-known lessons of the Bible. A woman, who had been caught in the act of adultery was brought to Jesus Christ by the scribes (see Lawyers) and Pharisees (see Who Were The Pharisees?) as a test to see if the Messiah was a liberal in matters of the Law of God. In response to their deceitful query, He didn't condemn the woman, not because He was a liberal, not because He condoned her sin, but because the men who brought the woman to Him were Hypocrites. He was the only person there that day who was free of sin, the only one who had the right to "cast the first stone." He didn't stone her (or her accusers), but instead forgave her and told her to "sin no more." Otherwise, the day is coming when she, if she didn't thereafter repent, won't be stoned, but will be burned - along with the hypocrites who brought her to Him that day, if they didn't thereafter repent of their sin:
ReplyDeleteMaybe the girls that work at Hooters or Twin Peaks are doing it as a way to better them-self. Using their GOD given beauty and talents only makes sense. No one complaints about other talents.
ReplyDeleteKristi, I would have done the same thing. :)
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