It is a little list and it is only wishes for Wake Forest in 2015.
At the top of the list is more restaurants, particularly a nice sit-down, reasonably priced restaurant with good food and service, low noise levels and no canned music. The kind of restaurant where you would take well-behaved children for a special treat but would consider it your regular date night place where you could meet friends.
For people who have been in town a while, think Jovi’s in a larger space with more seating. Or think Skipper’s or Burkenstocks when Todd and Michelle Skipper ran them. Even think about a short-lived restaurant where the crab house is now that was called the Four Seasons: really good food and very bad service, service so bad you had to laugh and make jokes and give instructions. “Now you bring the water and the silverware.”
This is not to put down in any way the current restaurants, but we need more, more, more. And more variety.
This is a wish shared by many people I talk to.
The second wish is for a reincarnation – or two or three – of the Jimmy Keith Store float in the Wake Forest Christmas Parade. Keith and his friends/customers/neighbors dreamed up and created the floats for several years using cardboard and creativity. I think it was built around a pickup truck, but the float itself was not the wonderful part.
It was the band with the really, really good jazzy saxophone player – never knew any names – with all of them dressed in flannel nightshirts.
It was just good fun, homegrown fun, and was quite special.
My other wish is that Santa will bring traffic signals to every needed intersection in town – obviously I dream a lot and think Santa has a lot of money and is real good pals with Tony Tata.
