In the Diner

The diner is slow these days. The major employer in this area has shut down at least until March, though no one knows for sure when or if it will start back up. That has taken a lot of business from the diner. It means a lot more people are out of work and this area certainly does not need more of that.

The quiet also means the radio is more noticeable, as are the conversations.

While I am sitting here, Billy Joel's "The Piano Man" just came on the radio, and it kind of reminds me of the diner a little. Billy Joel wrote "The Piano Man" about his experiences as a bar musician during a time in his life when he had a bad recording contract and was waiting it out to get another. If you don't know the song, it is about people and what he learned about their lives as he met them in the bar. He claims that everyone in the song was an actual person that frequented the bar where he was playing.

Maybe one day I will write a song.

American Idol was brought up, and I must confess that I missed it last night (as I have every other night for however long it has been on). Apparently, there was a blind singer on it last night who was pretty decent.

Which led to the topic of Stevie Wonder and his trademark sunglasses. One man said, "We went to see Stevie Wonder when we were all young, including Stevie Wonder, and we didn't know he was blind. We just thought he was cool."

Another person brought up Roy Orbison, who also wore sunglasses. The consensus was that Orbison was just being cool.

So what's the point of this post? There really isn't one. But I thought the Stevie Wonder comment was pretty funny.

And when it's 2 degrees outside, funny helps.

On the bright side, spring training starts just over a month from now. And there's no downside to that.