Sadly I decided to miss out on our county fair this year because enjoying festival foods was always appealing to me. Some of my favorite foods I can no longer eat, cotton candy for example or funnel cakes. Cotton candy and funnel cakes will put me back in the land of hyperglycemia easily. Texas Tenderloin...the bread would send my head spinning. Maybe next year when I'm more stable I will enjoy going to the fair again. I'm pretty much sugarfree but have trouble with eating things in moderation.
I've attended this particular fair since I was a teenager. It was always a great place to catch up with friends I didn't get to see all summer. Besides eating, playing games and riding rides, it was fun to just hang out. We would cruise the midway and say hello to other friends we would happen to see or bump into. More often than not we would have to check in with a family member occassionly and knew when it was time to go. There was no cellphones then, just payphones to tell us to come home.
My generation would interact with the people and objects around us. The younger generation no longer enjoy the surroundings most walk with a phone glued to their ear or texting oblivious to the life around them. It's disappointing that very few look around.
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