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08/12/2003 Archived Entry: "DO YA WANNA HEAR SOMETHING REALLY AMUSING?"

DO YA WANNA HEAR SOMETHING REALLY AMUSING?

You know how it is with the Cozy Inn and the smell their burgers inpart? It is legendary. It permeates every fiber of your clothes, your hair, your skin, and creeps inside your eyeballs. It is unavoidable. The odor finds a direct interstice to all your moving parts.

Because of that, most businesses have a ban on employees eating Cozies during their work shift. It is verboten.

So, guess what happened recently? At least this is the way it was reported to me, but I'll have to admit I haven't verified it with a family member who works there. It seems the smokers who work A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. (Investments since 1887), which is next door to the Cozy, gather around outside their own back door on the north and light up. Smokers who work at Caper's wander out there too.

Now they have been asked to desist from smoking there as, they say, the smoke wafts in the back door of the Cozy and bothers the "diners"....all six stools of them. This came in the form of a no-nonsense letter from the Cozy Inn to A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

I don't know about you...but I think this is pretty funny.

Yesterday, the Salina City Commission approved a project that will provide outdoor seating and a walk-up window "at Salina's landmark burger joint." Well, that's okay for those who didn't grow up on Cozies, but part of the fun is sitting inside, ordering a half-dozen burgers and having them slap them in front of you on that little piece of waxed paper, two by two, hot off the grill as you eat them. Then you drink a bottle of pop, and wander outside and wait for the bread, grease, onions, meat and pop to ferment so you can blow up. It's part of the ritual.