HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEARS!!

Today is Chinese New Years.  It is the year of the Goat and Sheep.   Have you ever heard a goat scream?  It sounds like a horrified  elderly lady.

Several years ago we read an ad saying a Chinese Restaurant in Cherokee County at Highway 92 and Bells Ferry Road was having a Chinese New Year Party.  The ad had an artist rendition of people having a good time with a Chinese Dragon, a Champaign bottle spewing over, streamers, noisemakers, and so on.

It looked like the place to be.

Also, they had a coupon by one meal and get one free.

We went, wild-eyed, ready to party down.... maybe they might let us get in the big dragon train.  Man!  Fun City!   And one of the meals will be free, the cheapest one, of course.

I imagined a Chinese band playing Chinese music, people jokingly shootings fire crackers, a lot of corks popping off Champaign bottles, laughter, whoopee!  etc.

We were the only customers there. 

A little Asian toddler kept peeping at us through the door.  I guess we looked kind of unique.

No singing, no fire crackers, no bursts of laughter, no fire crackers.... just a dinner.

A few weeks after that a drug deal went wrong and somebody got shot and killed there, we read in the paper.  If that had happen while we were there expecting fire crackers, after we heard the gunshots we might have got up and danced.