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Former pro football player
coaches at St. James High
By Tim Callahan
St. James High School has an assistant football
coach who has played a little ball himself, namely in the Canadian Football and Arena leagues.
Unfortunately for John Bush, an injury cut short
his career and robbed him of the opportunity
to perhaps play as an offensive lineman in the
largest football arena in the world, the National
Football League.
However, it was St. James good fortune to land
an assistant coach and a school resource officer
with plenty of experience. He has coached football at a juvenile residential facility and at a Division III college, and been a law enforcement
official in Gettysburg, Pa., and Horry County,
where he was a deputy sheriff assigned to the
fugitive and warrant division.
This is his second year as an SRO and he said
he “loves it. We have a good group of teachers,
administrators and students. And, I loved working with Joe Dowling, but there is a lot of excitement and enthusiasm with the hiring of Van
Pennell as the new principal. I hope it spreads.”
Bush, whose dad played at Penn State University, grew up in Central Pennsylvania, where
football is king. His favorite team is still the
Pittsburgh Steelers.
“There are a lot more distractions for students
living in a resort area,” he said. “There is a lot
more to do than in a rural area like where I grew
up.”
But, ironically, Bush was distracted from good
grades by football in high school.
“I relied too much on my athletic ability,” he
said. “I didn’t follow up on my grades. By the
time I tried to bring them up, the Division I
schools withdrew their offers.”
So, Bush went to the University of Rhode Island, a Div. 1-AA school. He was a four year
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School resource officer and coach, John Bush
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October 6
Three-year-old Jay Rucker admires his dad and car in 1925
Garden City Beach man drives 94-year-old car
By Tim Callahan
A man born in 1922 was driving a car built in
1916 around his neighborhood in Garden City
Beach last month.
Jay Rucker bought his Model T Ford in 1942.
He was giving an admirer a quick spin.
Well, not so quick.
“I saw it along the side of a street, near a café,
and I went in and talked,” he said. “I bought
it for the exorbitant price of $50. It was a basket case. It needed a complete restoration. But
it was the last year they built them with brass
on them.”
Rucker has a permit to drive the car in parades
and at shows. Reduced insurance is the reason,
as well as the car doesn’t do so well in modern
traffic. Tough to keep up.
“It would create road rage,” he said.
To get around, he drives a 12-year-old Buick
LeSabre.
“It’s approaching an antique these days,” he
smiles, saying things aren’t built to last anymore.
Living in the country outside Charlotte, where
his dad worked at a Ford dealership, Jay began
driving at 10 years old. At 14, he bought his first
car, a Model T Ford for $5.
“You could buy everything you needed to fix a
car for another $5,” he said.
Transportation fascinated young Rucker. He
hung out at the airport, got a job at the service
station and was flying by the time he was 18
years old.
“Some started a lot younger than that,” Rucker
said. And they weren’t flying on video games.
The airport had a flight program and he earned
a commercial license and became a flight instructor. He was also a flight instructor for the
Air Force Reserve and served in World War II.
In 1944, he married his wife, Marjorie, whom he
met while working at the airport. She died three
years ago. They were married 63 years.
“She used to love to ride in the car,” Rucker
said. “Back then, women wore bonnets and dusters, coats that kept the dust off.” The car has no
windows and a canvas vinyl top. Side curtains
were used if it rained.
The couple had two boys, one now lives in
Charlotte; the other in Florida.
He started working for the Postal Service in
1959 and stayed in the Reserves until the mid1960’s. It was then that he had more time to devote to his car, which had been sitting around
waiting to be fixed.
“I tore it apart and completely restored it,”
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Former Murrells Inlet resident, loving mother, nurse, passes away
Elizabeth “Libby” Rehnke
February 28, 1914 – August 25, 2010
Elizabeth “Libby” Rehnke, loving mother and
grandmother, passed away on August 25, 2010
at The Vistas.
The oldest of five children, Libby was born on
Feb. 28, 1914 in Raccoon, Pennsylvania, the
“love child” of Walter and Marie (Cantarell)
Schollaert. She was the only child in her family
to finish high school, graduating from Monesson
High School in 1932 as the valedictorian. During high school, Libby left her parents’ home and
lived with her aunt. She was also the only child
in her family to graduate from college.
After her college graduation, Libby became a
nurse and worked hard to become the head of
surgical nursing at Midtown Hospital in New
York. It was during
that time that she met
her future husband,
Charles H. Rehnke.
Charles was a patient
at the hospital awaiting surgery. When he
saw Libby, it was love
at first sight. Libby
wanted nothing to do
with him as he was a
patient, but Charles
would not leave the
hospital until Libby
came to see him. They
were married in 1945
and Charles preceded
Libby in death in 1951.
Following Charles’ death, Libby, with some
interview trickery and luck on her side, became
a secretary at TRW, now known as Northrop
Grumman. She retired around age 72, having
spent most of her career as a legal secretary.
Libby was a very spiritual person and her garden was her church. A member of the Hoe and
Hope Garden Club, Libby won many top awards
for floral design and enjoyed making wreaths
and floral crafts.
She was reunited at death with her husband,
Charles; her parents; her brother, Bill and two
sisters, Virginia and Thelma.
Libby leaves many precious memories with her
son, Eric Charles Rehnke; her daughter, Karin
Elizabeth “Miss Sam” Rehnke (HoHo) of Longmont; a sister, June Pfister of South Carolina
and her grandchildren, Sadie Mirth Rehnke and
Christopher Alexander Rehnke.
A celebration of Libby’s life took place at the
Vistas, 2310 W. 9th Ave. Longmont, CO. Cremation at Ahlberg Funeral Chapel and Crematory.
Share condolences and memories with the family at www.ahlbergfuneralchapel.com.
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Child sports prodigy returns to area to give gift back to students
She then started to travel, like to Costa Rica,
where she lived for three months, “drank way
too much,” and “got myself in some crazy situations.” She got sick, with a 104 degree temperature, and flew back home. She got a job at a
golf course, saved her money and bought a plane
ticket to an island off of Hawaii.
“I was running away from God, from my parents, from reality,” she said. “I was running
around in circles and I couldn’t do it anymore.”
She said she got to a point where she said, “Jesus, if you are real, change my life. I cried like a
baby for an hour.”
She told her sister she had changed her mind
and didn’t want to go to the island, and she wanted to make amends to her parents. But her sister
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Kirk said, “I was 18 years old, but it was the best
trip ever. I was a lab tech for four months and
then my dad flew me back and I made amends.”
She began teaching golf at camps and found out
that she loved teaching golf more than playing it.
“It’s like a cosmetologist,” she said. “They see
lines on a head. I see the arc of a golf swing. I
ask, ‘How can they cut hair like that? I could
never do that’, but it’s the same thing with me
and a golf swing. They ask, ‘How can you see
something wrong in a swing.’ It’s a gift.”
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Because she didn’t enjoy golf as a prodigy,
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who are athletic prodigies, can be monumental.
Their childhood is often not spent playing with
other children, but working with exacting parents and no nonsense coaches to become a professional athlete as an adult.
While other kids are swimming, hanging out
and video gaming, Olympic caliber kids are
training and training and training.
Such was the case with Meredith Kirk – until she had had it. A junior state golf champion
many times over, she worked to graduate early
from Socastee High, leave golf behind, and get
away from home.
Now the girls’ golf coach at St. James High
School, Kirk remembers well the events that led
her to the Lord, to pursue a master’s degree in
counseling, and to teach golf.
And, to make sure to always ask her student
golfers if they are enjoying themselves.
A very competitive family, the Kirk’s already
had one Olympic hopeful in Meredith’s sister.
The family even moved to Colorado Springs for
her training. It was there that Meredith Kirk discovered she had a gift with golf. Her gifted sister, unfortunately, missed the Olympics by one
skater. She was the last held back.
After her parents divorced, her mother asked
her where she wanted to live. Meredith asked her
if they could return to Myrtle Beach, home of
enough golf courses for an army, and her grandparents. And, of course, the beach, where Meredith loved to body surf.
She began attending Socastee High and quickly
proved she was a gifted athlete on the greens,
and could wield a decent tennis racket.
But, after her fourth junior state championship,
she was burned out. She had no social life. Nothing but golf.
“I didn’t want to see another course, another
green, another golf club,” she said. She also
didn’t want to see her parents.
She could have had golf scholarships from Furman or the University of Georgia, but she decided to attend Coastal Carolina University. She
was 17 years old.
“I went through a rebellious, kind of wild time,”
she said. “I drank to numb the pain. I was a binge
drinker. I didn’t honor my parents. I was unruly.
I am the prodigal son.”
She golfed for CCU, but she had a hard time
with the coach and quit.
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Local establishments offer college and NFL football fans homes to cheer
With the college football season underway and
NFL action around the corner, it may come in
handy to know where you can go and watch your
favorite teams with like-minded folk, get some
good eats and down some liquid refreshments.
Several establishments in the Litchfield/Murrells Inlet/ Garden City Beach area cater to football fans, including these three: Vienna’s Pizzeria and Sports Bar, Backfinz, Chelsea Jo’s, and
Carolina Wings and Rib House.
Vienna’s manager and original owner, Ed Milardo, is from Connecticut. He is a Patriots and
Vikings fan, and a “big” Red Sox fan. The sports
bar is home to Patriots and Giants fans, as well
as USC and Clemson rooters.
He offers dine-in, take out and delivery and
serves the “best pizza around,” including a New
York style pizza he developed. During halftime
of Monday Night Football games, he offers free
pizza. During Thursday and Saturday games,
he offers 25 cent wings, $1 slices and $1.50, 12
ounce, drafts.
It is also the first bar, he said, that was nonsmoking in the state.
From his first day at the place four years ago, he
said, he has run football specials. He has 42-inch
plasma television screens.
He wants people to know that the original owner – him - is back and running the place.
Vienna’s is located next to the Piggly Wiggly
in the shopping center off Hwy. 17 in Murrells
Inlet. The phone number is 357-9972.
Backfinz, manager Laura Hizon said, is a “Raven’s Nest,” one of only three outside Maryland,
home to the Baltimore Ravens. Backfinz emphasizes the Ravens, but there are other teams
games found on some of their televisions.
However, NASCAR races are also shown and
“It was standing room only for Ravens games at come with the same specials.
our old location,” she said, “but at our new one,
A big seller during games, Lester said, is the
which we’ve been at for six months, we hope to Redskins Hoagie Sandwich with polish sausage,
have sitting room for all.”
sauerkraut, peppers and onions and red potato
The 4,000 square foot restaurant is off Highway salad. The sandwich is served on a big sub roll.
17 Business in Garden City Beach – on the left The restaurant is located off Hwy. 17 Business in
if you are traveling north, on the right if coming Garden City Beach. The phone number is: 357from the south.
2799.
Backfinz offers a full menu during games, she Carolina Wings and Rib House in Litchfield ofsaid, including steamed blue crabs, with rock salt fers $10 beer buckets during all NFL and coland Old Bay seasoning, and chicken and steak, lege games as well as other game time specials.
as well as a kids menu.
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The Hixons, who are from Maryland, of course, TVs. They are located at 139 Willbrook Blvd.,
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number is: 357-3069.
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There are so many opbeach and pool, with a variety of water sports
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Community Events Calendar
Songwriter at ‘First Thursday’
The golf tournament will be held Sat., Sept. 11,
Musician and songwriter Phillip Lammonds with registration beginning at 12:30. The tournawill appear at the upcoming “First Thursday at ment is a Captain’s Choice, shotgun start beginWaccamaw” program, sponsored by Friends of ning at 1:30 p.m. Dinner and awards will follow
the end of play.
the Waccamaw Library (FOWL).
The program will be at 7 p.m., Thurs., Sept. 2, Tidelands is a non-profit hospice commemorating 25 years of service to patients and families
in the Community Room of the Waccamaw
Neck Branch Library, 24 Commerce Lane, Paw- dealing with end of life issues. To learn more
about Tidelands Hospice, visit our website at
leys Island.
Lammonds’ songs have been recorded by Hoo- www.tidelandshospice.org, or call 843-546tie & The Blowfish, Edwin McCain, Josh Turner 3410. The toll free number is 888-922-3410.
and other popular performing artists. He was a
founding member of The Blue Dogs, a staple in Low Country Herb Society
The Low Country Herb Society will hold its
the Carolina college circuit, and performed with
first meeting of the 2010-2011 meeting year on
the bluegrass band The Seldom Scene.
The program also will showcase works by teach- Tues., Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. at St. Paul’s Waccaing artists from the Cultural Council of George- maw United Methodist Church in Litchfield.
Chef and owner of the Chive Blossom Café,
town County, including Danny McLaughlin and
Paul
Kelly Rennault, will give a program on usRuth Cox. These works will remain on display
ing, growing, and preserving herbs, and a cookin the library throughout September.
The public is invited, and admission is free. ing demonstration with recipe handouts.
A “Meet and Greet” social time, to welcome
Refreshments will be served.
new and returning members, will be held prior to
For more information, call (843) 230-7286
the meeting with refreshments provided.
The Low Country Herb Society was founded in
Hospice annual golf tournament
1986
to foster the cultivation, propagation, and
Are you a golfer in search of a tournament?
Come and join Tidelands Hospice for their third many uses of herbs, including culinary, mediciannual tournament. The event begins on Friday nal, cleansing and crafts. The society maintains
night, Sept. 10, from 6-9 p.m., at the True Blue an herb garden at the Rice Museum in GeorgePlantation Clubhouse. There will be a silent auc- town.
Annual dues are $20, which includes a quartion with a cash bar, appetizers and wonderful
terly newsletter with articles on herbs, LCHS upitems to bid upon.
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recipes. To join, come to the meeting on September 14 and/or send your dues check to: The Low
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Backyard Birds expands business
The Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony at Backyard Birds business expansion celebration on
Thurs., August 19 at 5:30 p.m. A group of attendees personally invited by owners Tim and Linda
Clos, along with Chamber staff and board of directors, all gathered for the official ceremony.
Tim and Linda Clos decided to expand their
business and offer home and garden accents for
nature lovers with Backyard Accents. This new
addition adjoins their current business, Backyard
Birds, and is located at 5200 Hwy. 17 Bypass in
Murrells Inlet. Awnings, arbors, bird baths, art
and photography from local artisans, along with
many other outdoor treasures are all available. “I
want to thank my wife, Linda, because all of this
would not be possible without her,” Tim said.
“This was her design, her idea and her vision that
made this addition such a beautiful space. Linda
worked long hours to make this special.”
Counseling Center
Of Georgetown
JOSEPH E. SCANLON, L.P.C.
FELLOW, AMERICAN ACADEMY
OF PAIN MANAGEMENT
JAMES F. GRAHAM, JR., MD
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
• Individual Counseling
• Marriage and Family Counseling
• Adolescent Counseling
• Outpatient Alcohol & Drug Counseling
• Outpatient Psychiatric Care
• Pain Management
B/C & BS & MAJOR INSURANCES ACCEPTED
Across the street from
Pawleys Island Wine & Spirits
Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5
(843) 235-3233
NOW ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS
Furniture, Home Accents, Vintage Handbags,Paintings, Jewelry and Much More…
Local Artists and Craftsmen Welcome
527-8118
906 PRINCE ST • GEORGETOWN, SC
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Community Events Calendar
Low Vision Support Group
The Low Vision Support Group meets the third
Wednesday of the month at the Myrtle Beach Senior Center on 21st Street at 12:30 p.m. For more
information, contact Betty Cain, 651-3328.
Harvest and craft festival
The 11th Annual Harvest & Craft Festival will
be held at St. Michael Catholic School, 542 Cypress Ave., in Garden City on Sat., October 16,
from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Children will enjoy
a variety of activities including face painting,
games, inflatable rides, and a haunted house.
Admission is free; $10 for unlimited rides. Waccamaw Animal Rescue Mission (WARM) will
present an animal exhibit. Arts and crafts will
be on hand for show and purchase. Sticky Fingers BBQ will be available for $8 per plate. This
year, for the first time, the festival will include
a Good As New Sale, where gently used items
can be purchased. The Good As New Sale will
continue on Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., inside the school’s Duffy Center, with coffee and
doughnuts. All proceeds from the event benefit
St. Michael Catholic School. For more information, call 651-6795.
with a B.S. degree in Psychology and a M.Ed in
Counseling, Meacham brings to the center over
28 years of experience working with the state of
South Carolina. Her positions within the state
Dept. of Juvenile Justice included county director in Lexington County and Horry County. She
spent 17 years with the Dept. of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services, serving as regional director for the Pee Dee Region and was appointed
as state director of the agency, a cabinet level
position, by the governor in 2001.
Joan and her husband, Tim Meacham, university counsel for Coastal Carolina University, reside in Georgetown.
The Family Justice Center is located at 1530
Highmarket St. in Georgetown. It is being designed to offer professional, co-located services
to victims of domestic violence and their families.
Dance, music, theatre
Dance, music and
theatre will flow along
Front Street as The
Georgetown Performing Dance Arts Foundation presents “Summer’s-End” with Tales
Safe Families names executive director of Litchfield Beach.
Safe Families Initiative (www.safefamiliesgc. The Studio of Dance
org) has named Joan Meacham as the interim ex- hosts the event at 925
ecutive director of the new Family Justice Cen- Front Street, Georgetown, on Sat., Sept. 25,
ter in Georgetown.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
In-home care can ease the daily burden of simple life tasks.
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Family respite care
Medication reminders
Shopping & errands
Light housekeeping
Bathing & hygiene assistance
Alzheimer’s & dementia care
Parkinson’s care
Assisting with Arthritis limitations
Laundry & linens
Facility sitters
Hospice supportive care
Incidental transportation
Prompting & cueing
Couples care
Making bed
Ironing
Mopping & sweeping
Dusting
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Transfers & positioning
Taking vitals
Skin care
Hair Care & shampooing
Mouth & denture care
Shaving with electric razor
Alzheimer’s & dementia care
Parkinson’s care
Diabetic meal planning
Changing briefs
Dressing
Feeding
Nurse evaluations
920 Mt. Gilead Road Suite C2 • Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
Phone: 843-651-4848 • Fax: 843-651-4868
Email: info@rahgrandstrand.com
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A stage performance brings to life characters
from Bill Sirmon’s book, Tales of Litchfield
Beach. Georgetown Mayor Jack Scoville kicks
off the evening and author Bill Sirmon and Illustrator, Jim Dyson, will be available to sign books
and keep a watchful eye on “Lizard Man.”
The evening celebrates dance with performances by members of the “Pass It Forward Company,” directed by Steele Wilson-Bremner, owner
and artistic director of The Studio of Dance. Live
music by local artists will also fill the air.
Saturday’s gala will include a silent auction with
donated items from shops, restaurants, fine jewelry, massages, local art, vacations and more.
Tickets are $35 per person. Heavy hors
d’oeuvres, complimentary beer and wine and
coffee and dessert will be served. All proceeds
support local outreach programs for community
and children in the arts. Tickets are available at
the Dance Foundation office at 925 Front Street
in Georgetown and Plantation Federal Bank in
Pawleys Island.
KOBE EXPRESS
4450 Highway 17 Unit D7
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
843-651-3867
Dine-in, Take out
Kobe Express Aims to Impress
The Kobe Express menu covers
tuna, eel and salmon, and a wide
range of Japanese food, consisting of bowls, hibachi, noodles
and teriyaki, and more than 20
kinds of sushi, made to order,
including the traditional California Roll, Soft Shell Crab Roll,
Philly Roll, and Boston Roll.
Combos include the Lily (8 pcs of sushi), Rose (1 pc of sushi & 6 pcs
California Rolls), Tuna Boy, and Salmon Boy. For large parties:
Shogun (32pcs, $24.99), Ocean Garden (64pcs, $37.99) and Emperor
(76pcs, $49.99). Teriyaki Chicken and Hibachi Filet Mignon, dishes
Mr. Zhao strongly recommends, are surefire crowd pleasers.
There are some combinations, like an order of Hibachi Shrimp and
Teriyaki Chicken, reasonably priced at $6.75, and you can customize
your meal.
Kobe Express uses no MSG, and little salt or oil.
Owner, Mr. Jason Zhao, tries to source the ingredients daily. Mr. Zhao
has eight years of experience and knows the essence of Japanese cooking. Orders are prepared within 10 minutes and are well packed.
At Kobe Express, "customers are king" and are treated with respect.
Dedication to detail is in all aspects of the dining experience.
Kobe Express is a charming eatery that is definitely worth a visit.
Signature Dishes: Teriyaki Chicken, Hibachi Filet Mignon
Japanese cuisine
Owner: Jason Zhao
Founded: 2006
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EDITORIAL/OPINION
Bikes, planes and trains of thought on judging others
By Heather McKeown
Having Adam Bower, a man not given to expansive descriptions or wasted words, show
me around the construction site at Huntington
Beach was an interesting interlude on my bike
ride. This young man, presenting the walking
tour of the observation deck job, came alive as
he explained the project’s ongoing challenges
and goals. Eyes dancing, pride showing, one
couldn’t help getting hyped up about everything
from the pressure treated lumber to the newly
sunken supporting pillars. The BREAKWATER
CONSTRUCTION sign was proudly displayed
on the site and this was a definite point of interest to me. I like clean-looking, professional
jobs. They invite me to satisfy my sparked curiosity and to ask questions. I got more than I
bargained for from Adam because, not only did
I learn about the ways of deck building, but of
first impressions and how they serve to inform
correctly or the opposite. Lately, my hasty judgment calls haven’t served me well.
I cycle or run long distances because I’m a
writer. Somehow, if I have a seed of a story line
in my head, the monotony of such activities puts
me in a trance which frees my subconscious
and, upon returning to my computer, the articles
write themselves.
On the day I stopped at the BREAKWATER
sign, I was working out a piece about a woman
I thought to be a caring mother upon first sight
but a temptress, cheap alley cat emerged very
quickly thereafter.
As a flight attendant, it’s my job and pleasure
to meet and greet customers boarding my planes.
In the air, there’s the constant care and feeding
of these fascinating travelers. I adore everything
about this and, as a bonus, the life stories they
tell me makes great fodder for articles.
Last month, an extremely well-put-together
woman in her mid-thirties came aboard with
two of the sweetest daughters imaginable. All
smiles and perkiness, the mother and her little
girls, moved to their seats with grace and poise.
“Ahh, they’ll be a pleasure to serve. So clean and
classy!” I thought to myself. First impressions.
After the safety demonstration, I walked the
aisle insuring all seatbelts were fastened, tray tables and seat backs up, carry on baggage stowed
properly and electronic devices turned off. When
I arrived at the little family’s row, the two little
girls were sitting on one side of the aisle; the
mother and a man I thought to be the father in
two seats on the opposite side. I assumed the
handsome fellow was the children’s sire because
the mom was totally leaning in on him in a somewhat intimate way.
“Excuse me,” I said, “ I just think you might like
to know that it’s always best to have an adult beside a child just in case the oxygen masks come
down and an adult has to reach for it and put it
on the youngster.”
The woman looked over to her five and threeyear-old resentfully, gave a shrug and said,
“They’ll be OK.” Then without another thought,
she resumed her face-to-face-in-his-space discussion with her man.
When taking drink orders, it was obvious that
the woman was really into her seat mate. He was
dark and swarthy, very dapper and had the apparent sophistication of a successful entrepreneur.
Old money, multiple interests, talent for many
things I thought. A decent man. First impressions.
Without taking her eyes off the man, I was
given her command. He worked his face out of
hers and graciously gave me his order. I almost
sensed that he was embarrassed by her constant
attention.
“What might your daughters want?” I asked the
man.
“Oh, they aren’t mine,” he said. With a quick
eye-movement from me to the mother, he raced
on, “We’re not together.”
This certainly appeared to come as news to
the woman. She visibly reacted to this news in
a shocked manner. I’m sure she wasn’t used to
rejection from the male half of society and the
fact that her goals of seduction and ownership
weren’t going to be easily achieved on that flight.
The ‘mommy’ answered my question, “I don’t
care what you give them as long as it keeps them
over there and quiet.”
I offered the pretty little girls a list of my
Murrells Inlet
Studio Café
Lee’s Farmers Market
Inlet Golf Carz
Ebb n’Flow
Plantation Printing
Spring House
BB & T
CVS
Lowe’s
Earthworks
Christ Church
China Chef
NBSC
Hampton Inn
Owens Development
Fontinello’s
Waccamaw Hospital
Fox’s Pizza
Jersey Mike’s
Grand Strand Bikes
The Pig
Kobe Express
Car Wash (next to Markette)
The Markette
Crab Cake Lady
Russell’s
Cedar Hill Landing
Creekside Cab
Hot Fish Club
Nance’s
Jerry’s Barbershop
Inlet Convenience and Fish Supplies
Lee’s Inlet Kitchen
River City Café
Belin UM Church
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K-Rae’s
Creek Ratz
Bubba’s
Drunken Jack’s
Perry’s Bait and Tackle
Booty’s
Flo’s Place
Lee’s Inlet Apothecary
Empire for the Arts
MI Community Center
LC3 Church
Waccamaw Chiropractic
Atlantic Eye Vision Center
Beverly’s Services, Inc.
Anderson Law Firm
Conway National Bank
Palmetto Heritage
Bank of America
Brian’s Tire
Jiffy Lube
Merchant’s Tire
SCBT
Garden City
Dunes Realty
Produce Store
Causeway Bar
Jack DeBruhl’s
Gigi’s
Sam’s
GCB Pier
Ice cream store
Caldwell Banker
Garden City Realty
Surf Shop
California’s Pizza
Baskin-Robbins
Dennis Smith, attorney
Garden City Furniture
Backfinz
Twelve
Garden City Beach Café
Walgreen’s
Firm Foundations
ASAP Computers
Chelsea Joe’s
Nico’s
David’s Barber Shop
Laundromat
Holiday Inn
Surf Beverage
Hickory House BBQ
Curve’s
O’Keefe’s
Coastal Dental
Right-at-Home
Hudak Chiropractic
A Novel Idea
Inlet Consignment Shop
Pawleys Island/Litchfield
My Sister’s Books
Island Day Spa
Visible Results
Christian Counseling Clinic
Pawley’s Island Mercantile
Island Shoes
Pawleys Island Wear
Low Country Jewelers
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