Thank you, Florida
Up until this minute, I thought things like this only happened in Texas.
It is rare when you find a story with a 70 year old impotent male, his 41 year old wife who is a blackout drunk, her 32 year old lover, living room floors, guns, murder, stand your ground, acquittal, and the damn Waffle House.
If you can’t love a story like that, there’s something wrong with you.
After her husband was acquitted of murder for shooting her lover while they were sparkin’, the joyful wife spoke to the press.
When Wald is released from jail, Flores said, the couple plan a celebration. “Because my husband puts me first,” she said, “he’s taking me to Waffle House.”
That story cannot happen outside the South.
Waffle House is McDonalds with grease for breakfast.
I’m just a little bit surprised that it took all of (2) hours for the jury to acquit.
Next time he shoots and kills somebody having sex with his wife on his living room floor, it may take a while longer.
There is no doubt in my mind there will be a “next time” with this couple.
1I (we) stopped at a Waffle House once. Had to endure skin grating on my forearms. Wife told me I should have kept my arms off the table. I guess I lack ‘couth.’
2Great story, JJ, but hey, hey, HEY! Ya dissin’ Waffle House?! Good crisp bacon all day in 24 states; breakfast any time; loud, entertaining staff (no one goes there for romantic tete-a-tetes, y’know)! Did I mention bacon? A road trip without multiple
3Waffle House visits is like a martini without okra!
There is so much to say about this story, but I won’t because it would too tacky for me to put it into writing.
4Totally weird.
5You left out the part where the victim, appropriately enough resided on Lovers Lane.
Still I think Wald made the most salient observation about the entire situation, “In fact, she would joke a lot with me…that we were a perfect couple,”
A lot huh? I think I’m nominating that observation for joke of the year, which is only funny if you are not the guy who got shot.
6Quite the trifecta of circumstances!
7“It is rare when you find a story with a 70 year old impotent male, his 41 year old wife who is a blackout drunk, her 32 year old lover, living room floors, guns, murder, stand your ground, acquittal, and the damn Waffle House.”
Also, if you can imagine anything like this actually happening in the first place, you are qualified to represent Floriduh or Texas as Congresscritter. If interested, please contact your local NRA office.
8It’s just a shame to me that a man died for his transgressions and the wife gets a trip to Waffle House to reward her for her complicity in his murder. That just ain’t right, jury or no jury.
9Life imitates farce? Art got a little too highbrow!
10If only Romeo had taken Juliet back to his trailer on Lovers Lane. They could have met Mr. Shoot-First next morning and all had a great time munching on that bacon and joking about adultery and impotence down at the Waffle House. Tragic.
11She can make sure he gets the heart attack special.
12J.D. Crowe | jdcrowe@al.com
This is the journalist who wrote the story about a guy named Nodine in Alabama who is planning to run for elected office from jail despite killing his mistress. Felons can’t vote, not even for themselves, but . . .
“The Constitution allows felons to hold office in the House of Representatives – even while incarcerated. The only requirements to serve in Congress are that a representative must be at least 25 years old, must be a U.S. citizen for the last seven years and must be a resident of the state where they are elected.”
Nodine, a Republican, thinks his life experiences bring value to his resume as a candidate. According to Nodine, “I made severe and inexcusable personal mistakes in my life but do not feel it is up to rogue prosecutors to prosecute a person’s personal and moral failings,”
He is after Congressman Jo Bonner’s seat and the local GOP have come very close to having a tizzy over this.
Honestly (just why did I use that word there?), this can compete with anything in Texas.
13The woman who put her husband second by having sex with her (now deceased) boyfriend, lives to say “my husband puts me first, he’s taking me to Waffle House.” She probably still doesn’t know whether it was luck, bad aim, or true affection that kept her from getting shot as well, so she better dish out the compliments for that short stack of pancakes.
14Revenge is a dish best served greasy…
15The big unanswered question is, is this just a case of over-zealous product placement?
I went to Waffle House once, in 1985 in Atlanta. They weren’t famous for their hashbrowns then, in fact they were kind of nasty when I said I didn’t want grits with my breakfast, I wanted ‘taters. BTW, the ‘taters were AWFUL.
16Of course, black women are generally not allowed to use that defense:
(CBS) – Last Friday, Jacksonville mother Marissa Alexander was sentenced by a Florida judge to 20 years in prison for firing what she says was a “warning shot” into the wall after a physical altercation with her husband, Rico Gray.
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How, they ask, could a 31-year-old woman in a relationship with a man who had a history of domestic violence, and whose actions did not result in any physical injury, be sentenced to two decades in prison while George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Martin, is out on bail?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57434757-504083/fla-woman-marissa-alexander-gets-20-years-for-warning-shot-did-she-stand-her-ground/
17Appropriate song lyrics:
http://www.carolynwonderland.com/bloodless_from_a_waffle_booth_six.html
I had the pleasure of working as substitute roadie for Ms Wonderland a few years back, and discovered to my horror that the whole band knew the words to the special Waffle House songs on the juke box by heart.
How ya want them hash browns done, Honey?
18In a “stand your ground” locality, can either truly live comfortably in a house with the other when guns are around the margins. This has not ended and no good can come of it.
19Someone will make a movie out of this.
20Good grief! One more time–you can NOT make this stuff up!! They make Rick Perry seem smart.
21Sort of.
😉
Carlo, um . . . Reese Witherspoon as the 41 year old wife, John Malkevitch as the agrieved husband, Ashton Kutcher as the lover. Yup. It would be classified as a comedy.
22Yes, while tragically ludicrous and downright insane, here in Tennessee “The Waffle House” as it is called here, is in the news nearly every dayum day, with the ” shootin” part of the tale taking place in the parking lots or bathroom – they are HQed in Nashville and more prevalent than McD’s! Very romantic spot for rednecks.
23Hey maggie: is Reese Witherspoon still hot at 41?
24Captain dan, ask her current husband. I hear there is a baby on the way.
25I remember that Texas had a law that a man could kill his wife’s lover and not be charged. I heard that when the state ERA was passed and they had to clean up the laws, they changed this one to allow the same for a woman killing her husband’s lover. Is that still true?
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