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Hypes and Gripes

• Gripes to the Price Cutter checkout clerk who, on a recent Sunday, got a little judgmental when a customer wanted to buy alcohol on a Sunday morning (never mind the fact that the “no booze before 9 a.m.” rule is ludicrous). Maybe the beer was a gift. Maybe the beer was for an afternoon at the lake. Maybe we’re just raging alcoholics. No matter which, we don’t have to put up with your Schlitz.

• Hypes to the Springfield Cardinals’ staff for a first-rate Texas League All-Star Game experience. It was hot, but the sweat didn’t show, from the overtly long home run derby, to the helicopter landing (dropping off the Liverpool Legends), to the between-innings games featuring the hilarious TL mascots (man, that San Antonio Taco is WILD!), to the immaculate field to the game itself. We’re so proud!

• In a related Gripe, we are not at all happy with the jokers who, after putting a packet of pickle relish on their Hammons Field hot dogs, placed the empty packets back in the condiment container. We mistakenly grabbed not one but two of these gross-ass handfuls at the June 25 All-Star game. Hammons Field has plenty of trash cans—use them.

• We can’t really Gripe business owners making what they think is a sound financial decision, but we must say we are disappointed that Well Fed Head is moving to the south side (Fremont Center, to be exact). When it opened in 2002—before the Moxie, before Wilhoit Plaza, even before most of the restaurants—Well Fed Head was the harbinger of downtown’s cultural renaissance. The store—and bohemian, stroll-about bookworm types in general—just seems to belong in Center City. We wish the best for Well Fed Head and its owners, and we’ll visit, but that doesn’t mean we totally agree with the move.

• Hypes to City Utilities (yes, CU!) for finally installing a new outage-reporting line that can handle up to 30,000 calls at once. Maybe it’s a year and a half late, but they’re listening to people, at least.