re: #75 dat_said

I stopped at a small gas station in backcountry UT over 30 years ago and purchased a Mountain Dew. While I was there, the clerk received a very strong lecture how they shouldn’t even have that stuff stocked. At the time, I presumed the lecturer was a local Mormon elder.

Mountain Dew is a no-no because it has caffeine in it. Memories of 60 years ago when my aunt Viv was in Salt Lake City hiring people for Blum’s in Northern California. She went into an AAA office and was getting travel plans for Colorado when she made the fatal mistake of lighting a cigarette. A Mormon yanked it out of her mouth and scolded her…