I was going to buy a lake house up there at Skiatook awhile back. I ended up with one in Grove, but I sold it a few years ago.
Skiatook has come a long ways from what it once was. So have many places in northeast Oklahoma...but not Claremore. We have more assholes living here now, but nothing for shopping or dining. And I blame the Robson family for a good deal of that shit. They have blocked a lot of stores coming in around here just so they don't have any competition for their precious Walmart fart starter.
Owasso, a town that wouldn't even allow a movie theater back when I was in high school, has all kinds of stores and dining. We are stuck with two sonics, two Braums, two McDonald's, and a rib crib. After that, it's the same old bs save for a crappy BWW, which has probably the worst service out of any restaurant in northeast Oklahoma.
Yup, I would move, but I have family ties that keep me here and many other reasons I can't leave. So I will continue to sniff Walmart farts when I need something in a pinch that I can't wait for on Amazon. Yeesh.
And I wish I could say the Walmart farts were an exaggeration, but the last two times I have stood in line I have been blasted by no less than the equivalent of a 40 megaton bomb full of sulfur produced by the bowels of a really fat nasty bitch with an attitude in the checkout line and some dirty ass old dude decked out in squat gear in the automotive department. I have shitty luck, pardon the pun.
Just an atrocious state of affairs here in Squaremore, where people's asses don't care anymore. Maybe it's the every 15 min trains that stop people in traffic and leave them hopelessly trapped in their cars between their last sonic burger ingestion and the promise of some time on their precious porcelain throne.
Need snow. Now.