{"id":88926,"date":"2018-05-22T13:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T17:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=88926"},"modified":"2018-05-23T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:48:26","slug":"randomthoughts-5-22-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/22\/randomthoughts-5-22-18\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (5\/22\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking. Beware.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s find a Big Board in the warehouse&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So whatever happened to the horrible quality of life issues that were promised and feared by the residents near Jeff Smith&#8217;s Family Vet that was built on Piney Forest Road? Hint: None of that crap happened.<\/li>\n<li>So whatever happened to the Danville Public Library&#8217;s &#8220;purge&#8221; of Confederate history material? Hint: That wasn&#8217;t happening either.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of the Danville Public Library, they&#8217;ve now added even more free online services. You should take advantage of them.<\/li>\n<li>You need to go have a Day-O-Fun at Uptown Pinball in Martinsville. Mike Haley &amp; his crew have expanded yet again and it&#8217;s even more of a bargain now. All of the machines are set on free play, and it&#8217;s only $12 for the entire day.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve only been threatened to be sued once this past week. Unfortunately, the crazy old woman deleted her threat once I told her that she wasn&#8217;t going to do a damned thing.<\/li>\n<li>Getting back to Martinsville (well technically Collinsville here), eat at Fenderz.<\/li>\n<li>The carnival that just finished up at Nor-Dan Shopping Center was ridiculously small, yet large enough to completely disrupt the businesses.<\/li>\n<li>Toys-R-Us should mow their parking lot before they close for good.<\/li>\n<li>Next time you&#8217;re in <del>Downtown Danville<\/del> the River District, play a fun game of &#8220;Let&#8217;s find all of the city&#8217;s security cameras!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Using your first and middle name on Facebook doesn&#8217;t fool anybody. People can still find you and they will if they want to.<\/li>\n<li>We drove by IHOP last week around 7 PM. There were no cars in the parking lot. None.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough RandomThoughts for now. 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