A Shout-out from Atlanta

[wayeast]

About four years after I left Straight, I went back to Austell Road.  This would have been around 1986, and I actually went INTO the building. I'm laughing sitting here writing this, because I'm surprised I didn't get arrested or have a restraining order put on me or something. I really don't know why I wasn't escorted off the premises.
  I took a friend with me, and I was really just going to drive by, but when we got there, I decided to pull into the parking lot.  The next thing I knew, I was sticking my head in the door, asking some lame question about whether this was a doctor's office.  There was a Mom at the desk, and she said no, that it was a drug rehab. She never picked up the phone to call anyone, and when I asked, she said I was welcome to take some of the brochures that were there.  I have no idea whether the woman was clueless, or whether she just didn't see me as much of a threat.  Or maybe they were watching me carefully as I got back in my car.
  I was weirdly energized when I got back in the car, even though there was part of me that was afraid they were going to come running out and drag me back in the door.  
  Right now, that scene seems more surreal than anything that happened while I was *in* the program.

[Majiktrvls]

I cannot believe that you actually got to have Chicken Tetrazzini and those veggies! DAmn if I had known that, I would have stuck around longer to see what sort of vittles were going to get cooked up! Were doing well if we had some foreign type of beans to go along with PO Folks Chicken that was at least a week old, and a dead biscuit. And, if I remember right, that was only on Sundays.
Milnichuck made it all the way to Exec. Director? Wow, she was an exec while I was in there. I think she was PuertoRican. When I left, I don't remember there being anyone in particular as the Offical Director. Ben Webb may have been acting as director. I don't remember.

[ehm]

Straight's where I learned about Raman.

[Jas]

On 2003-05-14 19:51:00, Majiktrvls wrote:

"I cannot believe that you actually got to have Chicken Tetrazzini and those veggies!

That's what Sand's Catering Service called it anyway.  It was rather disgusting really.  I still won't eat anything in the tetrazzini family.