| My mom one said, "if Walla Walla
didn't have such a funny name, no one would think twice about it."
Then she realized she had made a pun by accident.
See my bike, old building and me reflected in glass of
new building in College Place, Washington.
Walla Walla is an old city along the Oregon Trail.
At one time, it was Washington State's largest place, but has since been
surpassed by Seattle and many other locations. There is still a lot
of old world charm there.
Some folks just remember it as home for Washington State
Penitentiary, but the town is also full of colleges.
There's Walla Walla College, just outside the main city,
in a town called College Place; run by Seventh Day Adventists.
Walla Walla also has Whitman College, a very prestigious
liberal arts school of private ownership. Yes there is also Walla
Walla Community College.
Ordering a salad at the Whitman Union cafeteria, I forgot
to specify "no dressing." It was so spicy I couldn't eat with out
puckering up. Since the room was empty, I struggled through, but
soon the tables filled with young sophisticated looking students.
They were all joking with each other and talking "a mile a minute" on cell
phones.
The clerk said she had accidentally double charged me
for the salad. I had credit for more. "Oh no, I could barely
eat what I had," so I ordered more to drink instead. She brought
3 glass bottles of juice, "to go," in a paper bag which began to tear.
Feeling like an old wino among the students, I walked back out onto the
Whitman campus trying to keep my 3 glass bottles from tearing their way
out of the sack. Both my older brothers attended Whitman College
back in the 1960s. |
