WWPD

i came home last night to a quiet house after a weekend up in DC for a wedding. traditionally, this is a time when roaches are at their peak at winyah manor. but i had a new experience last night: roach in kitchen sink (RKS). a kitchen sink (for once) not lined/stacked with dirty dishes. i calmly steered it toward the garbage disposal & rinsed/grinded it down, not wanting to take the time to run & get roach spray, & thinking a shoe wouldn't be so practical for the space i was working with. and i don't know if it was b/c i'd just driven back from DC & it was fresh on my mind, or if it was b/c of recent discussion on the point, but pedro came to mind. pedro is your friendly South of the Border (SOB) employee. multiple south of the border billboards ("caliente!") greeted us on our travels up & back this weekend. and the SOB complex tried to lure us with its kitschy sombrero decor & various restaurants & shops. but we didn't stop. even though it's america's self-proclaimed "favorite highway oasis"...

i'd recently heard talk of the bathrooms there, as in, they are deplorably messy (& the opposite of oasis-like). so when i encountered RKS, i thought about pedro & wondered what he would do (WWPD). i tend to think he's pretty laidback. and with the amount of roaches he's likely seen & inevitably been charged with killing, i feel like he'd be pretty unphased. i hope he'd be proud of my handling of RKS, & should there be an RBS, RSC, or RMBW (roach in bathroom sink, roach in shower curtain, roach in master-bedroom wardrobe), i hope i'll have the wherewithal to react as pedro would. SOB is, actually, up to standards apparently. their eateries' DHEC grades are solid A's, though i don't think it was in round 1 that said grades were acquired. i'll also add, as some of you may already know, they have a sweet wedding-weekend package. waterbed in honeymoon suite, breakfast included. a mere 99 dollars. nuptials at SOB! can't fully tell you how excited i was to learn this.

and lest you think that either 1) i'm making assumptions by referring to an SOB employee as pedro, or 2) that i'm fabricating the 99-dollar wedding deal, check it out here:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2211