Monthly Archives: December 2009

Burger King, Shmurger King

One day I was driving through South Dakota when I saw this Burger King sign


Not only did they serve whoppers

but soft serve ice cream for only a buck!

Hills King, Inc merged my two favorite restaurants!

If it hadn’t been for the sign, I never would have guessed this place served food

It looked more like an office building to me.

While they didn’t have a drive thru, they did have mailboxes

and a Whopper on Wheels truck!

While I was there, I dumped all my trash

and washed my truck with their garden hose.

As it turns out, they didn’t have any food inside at all. Only boxes.

This BK ended up being one big fat lie. No ice cream. No Burgers. Just boxes. Lots and lots of boxes.

Post Office on a Farm

One day I was driving through Wisconsin when I saw this post office

The fact that it was a post office barn was almost as funny as

the mean stuff people graffitied on the silo of the post office barn.

World’s Largest Can of Paint

One day I was driving through Pennsylvania and came across this

I have yet to find an appropriately sized paint brush though

The Hooker Museum, Part 2

(While part of this story is fantasy, most of the dialogue between the owner and me is verbatim)

After the creepy owner of the Hooker museum fed us some snacks, he took Dora and me on the tour

The first thing he showed us was a refrigerator that illegal immigrant prostitutes afraid of getting deported would hide in when the police raided. It locked from the inside!


Me: Can I get in there?
Owner: Why? You want to be an immigrant hooker or something?
Me: No, I’ve just never been locked in a refrigerator before.
Owner: Maybe later I suppose.

After showing us the room where men waited for their prostitutes

he took us to one of the nicer rooms

Apparently this room was haunted. The owner had painted an image of what the ghost prostitute who haunts the museum looks like.

Even though the corroner’s report had said it was an accident, the owner was convinced she was murdered.

Dora: Hey this bed is comfy.

Owner: Well look at that. Your little doll found a new career for herself.
Me: Um, yeah…….So anyways, can we meet this ghost?
Owner: Well, let’s keep going and maybe she’ll come out.

He took us down the hallway

(sponsored by Pepsi)

and into this room

Me: Hey look, handcuffs!

Owner: Do you want to try them on?
Me: Um, I don’t think so….But can you take a picture of me being a pretend prostitute?
Owner (a little too enthusiastically): SURE!

Owner: Doesn’t your doll wanna pose too?
Dora: Yes, yes! I do!!!!

Me: No, Dora. You’re just a child. Only grown-ups get to pretend to be prostitutes.
Owner: Okay, let’s go to the basement shall we?

He grabbed a flashlight and took us to the creepy staircase. The hooker in the window just watched us

Me: Man, I would hate to be one of the girls stuck in a dark, cold basement
Owner (shining the flashlight on my face): So, you’re a main floor kind of girl, huh?
Me: Well, I don’t think I’d be a hooker…..but yeah. I suppose I’d wanna be on the main floor with windows.

He took us into this room first

Hooker In The Corner (whispering): get out of here while you still can


Owner: Don’t listen to her. She’s just a dried-up old hooker. Let’s move on, shall we?

The next room he showed us was Room 28

I was fascinated by what this prostitute kept on her dresser


Owner: They even needed lubricant back then. Did you ever think about that?
Me: Nope. Hey, this prostitute believed in Santa!

Next to the lightbulb and light fixture on the bed was an old school vibrator


Owner: Would you like to hold it?
Me: Wow that sure is heavy!
Owner: Not as heavy as this paperweight. Wanna hold it?

Me: Wow! Now that’s ridiculously heavy (and big!) for a paperweight.
Owner: You like’em big, huh? And black?
Me: What? I just—

Dora: Hey look at this toy I found!

Me: Dora! Get away from that. Only grown-ups get to play with vibrators.
Dora: What’s a vibrator?
Me: Holy crap! Look at that photo!


While I was distracted by the old-timey lesbian picture next to Dora , the owner took her on the rest of the tour. When I finally found them, he was making Dora hit him.

Me: What the hell? She’s just a child!

I grabbed Dora and ran. We couldn’t figure out how to get out of the basement, so we asked these people

Man With Prostitute: Can’t you see we’re busy!

Owner: Good luck trying to get out of here without a flashlight girls

We blindly stumbled along until we came across this woman to ask for directions


Prostitute Hanging Clothes: Take a left at the top of the stairs, past Casper
Me: Casper?

Casper trick or treating was the ghost he was talking about? What a liar!

When I heard the owner coming up the stairs, I thought of the perfect hiding spot

Me: Don’t worry, Dora. He’ll never find us in here.
Dora: But he knows you wanted to get in the refrigerator. I bet this is the first place he’ll look

Dora was wrong. He looked outside first

Then he looked in the refrigerator

Me: Hi. Remember you promised we could get in the refrigerator?

Owner: We’re not done with the tour yet.


Me: Um, okay. We’ll finish in just a second. I still have to go to the bathroom, remember? Where is it again?
Owner: I don’t know.

Dora and I said we were going to the gas station to use the bathroom. We never came back

Best day holding a penis paper weight on Summer Tour 2009 ever!

The Hooker Museum Part One

One day Dora and I were driving through Butte, Montana when I came across this Brothel Museum.

It was sponsored by Pepsi, which I had no idea has been around since the 1890′s!

I also didn’t know they had due rags back then


or that hookers wore them

The hooker’s twin inside was dressed all 80′s with her t-shirt dress and torn pantyhose

but at least she had clothes on

unlike her hooker friend in the other room

riding a stationary bike


(I had no idea they had stationary bikes back then!)

I stood in the foyer for awhile next to the prostitute boot flower pot

and waited for a tour guide.

As it turns out, Dora and I were the only people in the entire museum. After a few minutes, the owner appeared

and insisted on giving us a tour himself

He showed us pictures of all the people who’d visited the museum in the last several decades. Like army guys

(lots of army guys)

and tanks!

He also showed pics of his other guests, including lots of Harley Davidson folks


(clothed and nude)

football players

Lynard Skynard (who all left signatures)

and even the cast of Lonesome Dove

starring Reese Witherspoon and Rickie Shroeder!

Owner: These are my favorite photos though

Me: Oh, yeah, who are these people?
Owner: That’s one of our old tour guides and me back when I was handsome…

…..All these girls used to be tour guides. Most of them were strippers too.

Me: So you don’t have any tour guides anymore, huh?
Owner: Sure I do. That one there still works here

Me: Oh. So where is she now?
Owner: In the bathroom probably
Me: Oh, where is the bathroom by the way. I really need to go.
Owner: We don’t have one.
Me: So where is she then?
Owner: I don’t know. Maybe up the road.
Me (to myeself): Hmmm. How could he have worked here for decades and never needed to go to the bathroom once?

Owner: Hey, you like blueberries?

Me: I LOVE blueberries!
Owner: Or I’ve got carrots.

Me: I love those too!

I was so distracted by the produce, I forgot to listen to my creepy old man radar. To see what messed up stuff he showed me in the dungeon, stayed tuned to tomorrow….

(the dialogue of this story so far, unfortunately, is all 100% true, believe it or not)

Granny Pannies

One day I came across this place in Pennsylvania.

It reminds me of one of the most scandalous places I went on Summer Tour 2009: A Hooker Museum


in Butte, Montana.

I’m too sick to tell it today, so stayed tuned til tomorrow for one of my favorite stories…………

Gas Stations Are Better Than Amusements Parks

One day I was driving through Virginia when I stopped at this gas station. On my way out of the store, I played some pinball.

I love games!

I couldn’t resist entering this competition for a cornhole game

even though I’d have to come all the way back to Virginia to redeem my prize

they were also giving away this bike as a prize

but I didn’t care much for a rusty old bike

On my way to the bathroom, I came across a dream come true.

Not one, but TWO of those robotic arm games!

and they were made by S & M!

I love S & M!!!

Unfortunately, they were unplugged

I guess they were broken. But they were selling the animals inside for $200 each


which seemed a little over-priced

I grabbed a hot dog before leaving. I wanted to sit at the table next to the carousel horse

but they manager was doing the books at that table

so I sat in the no-smoking section

and read the Lord’s Prayer instead

Funnest Gas Station on Summer Tour 2009 ever!

World’s Smallest Restaurant

I was driving through Indiana one day when I came across

The world’s smallest restaurant

This bubble trailer reminded me of my old life in New Mexico, living in a camoflage trailer with no running water.

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To see one of the stories about my former trailer life, click
http://melaniehamlett.com/2009/05/21/i-found-my-new-trailer-in-nyc/

“The Exciting Place”

One day in Tennessee, I came across this sign

I’d always wanted to go to THE “exciting place” but I never would have guessed it was

a) in Trenton, Tennessee or

b) a church!

My Favorite Farm

One day I was driving through Delaware and saw this farm.

Unless the owners are open to one day changing their name

I consider them to be the most defeatist business people I’ve ever come across