THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 5, 1994 TAG: 9406030259
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 04 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Medium
DATELINE: 940605 LENGTH:
An East Washington Street convenience store, Suffolk.
Both coffee pots are empty, and a small group of early morning customers is getting restless.
{REST} For a minute or two, they wait. No one comes to help them.
Finally, one particularly blurry-eyed man asks if someone could please come make another pot.
An apologetic clerk walks around the counter to the coffee machine and presses a large red button that says ``brew.'' The pot starts to fill.
``Oh,'' one of the waiting customers says with a shrug. ``All you do is push the button?''
- Robert Little
Monday, May 23\ 1:30 p.m. - Suffolk Plaza Shopping Center, Suffolk.
There are large potholes in the shopping center parking lot which could seriously damage a car.
However, small birds have found an advantage to these deep caverns in the asphalt. They are using them as bird baths and are busily splashing in rain water that has accumulated over the weekend.
Proves the old adage, ``One `bird's' meat is another man's poison.'' Or something like that.
- Shirley Brinkley
Thursday, May 26\ 2:30 p.m. - Big Lots, Suffolk.
A perplexed shopper is pondering the assortment of chair pads, searching for something suitable for his wrought iron patio furniture.
``Why don't they make any cushions for men?'' he asks a woman who's looking for pillows.
``They all have ruffles on them.''
- Susie Stoughton
7:25 p.m. - Nansemond River High School, Suffolk.
Del. Robert E. Nelms of Suffolk is explaining how Scott Weatherford, principal of adult education for Suffolk schools, persuaded him to speak at tonight's GED graduation.
``He called and said, `Del. Nelms, do you believe in free speech?' '' Nelms says. ``I told him, `You bet I believe in free speech.' He said, `Good, come give one.' ''
``Well, it didn't work quite like that,'' Nelms admits. ``But it's a good story.''
- Susie Stoughton
Sunday, May 29\ 6:15 p.m. - Windsor Castle, Smithfield.
Luke Douglas Sellers is conducting the Symphony Pops in an annual outdoor concert sponsored by the Smithfield Rotary Club.
At the first concert he conducted there several years ago, he rode into the natural amphitheater on horseback, he says.
Last year, he came up the Pagan River by boat.
He had promised to descend from an airplane this year if orchestra members collected enough money for parachuting lessons.
``Well,'' he says, ``I didn't get the collection, so I won't do anything unusual.''
Then later, at the end of the intermission, Sellers walks around from the rear of the stage - in a space suit - steps on the podium and begins conducting ``2001: Space Odyssey.''
- Susie Stoughton
Wednesday, June 1\ 5:15 p.m. - Sussex Court, Suffolk.
The youngster is back from a class trip to Nauticus, excitedly writing a composition for her family, telling them all about the area's newest attraction.
She mentions three of the exhibits, then decides to cut it short with this:
``If you want to find out more about Nauticus - go there yourself.''
- Frank Roberts
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