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...first glimpse of Russellville disappointed us. Electric signs from a few chain restaurants glowed dully on the side of an otherwise dark hill. In lieu of streetlights, a few hundred watts of "PIZZA HUT" lit the roadway...
...didn't want to eat at Pizza Hut. When you enter a Pizza Hut, whether you work there or you eat there, you sell you soul. You join the One-Culture-for-All Club, and maybe that's not so bad, but you give in to the unsettling homogeneity in America's lifestyle. We refused. No red-and-white checkered tables...
...decor at Pizza Hut became one of the only cultural details we saw that Tuesday night. And, lo and behold, the tabletops at that Alabama Pizza Hut boasted a red-and-white checkerboard under a layer of thin plastic. Commercialism had strangled the South. Give me familiarity or give me death...
Strange, then, that a waitress in such a post-cultural institution would so unsubtly point out the regional contrasts between us and herself. But the ideal of the South remains strong enough to force its way under the red roof of a Pizza Hut...
...considered one possibility: envy. After all, a 22-year-old waitress in a Pizza Hut probably wasn't leaving Russellville at any point in the foreseeable future. As we described our trip, her eyes betrayed a near-fascination with our small adventure...