The column that says the girl who answered the phone at DiLisi’s in the Upper Deerfield Shopping Center at Carll’s Corner today is a keeper, and you know why? She talked like she wanted to be there and that she wanted me to call, and that, my friends, is half the battle in the service industry.
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By Jack Hummel
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Good evening!
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Tired of waiting five hours in the emergency room at Inspira Elmer?
Yeah, the head nurse came right out and told us, “There are 18 being treated and 12 in the waiting room and it will be a 5-hour wait.”
And we said, what about if we come back at 2 a.m.?
“Same thing,” she said.
All night?
“All night.”
And then she suggested Urgent Care on 322 in Mullica Hill. One person ahead of us. No muss, no fuss.
But you won’t have to drive to Mullica Hill soon because Inspira Urgent Care is coming to a pad in the Upper Deerfield Shopping Center. They’ve already removed the parking lot asphalt.
We thought it might be John Daddario moving Nicey’s to a more prominent location.
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We would like an honest answer to a couple of rumors …
If you know the back-up is five hours and going to stay five hours, why not either schedule more help to start with, or call in more help, unless you’re trying to discourage people from using the ER when you could wait until the next day to go to a clinic?
If that is the case, why not send them home from the ER untreated after a preliminary exam?
Only rumors …
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Alas, Byron Hitcher has escaped again from DiLisi’s, and we never got to see him since the meeting in the Wendy’s parking lot when he spied us woofing down a full-size apple pecan chicken salad and was on his way to Enrico’s, the another Italian eatery just past the curve west of Shiloh.
Maybe he’ll drive a gourmet food truck in Bridgeton City Park.
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Speaking of Shiloh, they’re loaded for liberty with American flags on every pole, but it looks like one got ravaged by the storms this week because it’s frayed.
But so is the country.
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“Is it really that serious and parents are trying to win a Midget League trophy. your prize for your child’s future, because last I checked these days, you can’t jump from high school to high school to try to win a chip!
“You better get it right the first time or he’ll be sitting a year or 2. Y’all taking this Midget Football too far. It’s not even about the kids learning anymore. It’s all about the coach to have bragging rights against his rival coaches at the dinner and on Facebook.
“This is ridiculous and sad. THIS IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE. THIS IS TRUE FACTS, and, hell yeah, I’m mad, especially at the parents selling their soul for a sign-up and some cleats!
“I swear to goodness y’all better not be doing y’all time like that. It’s all over the damn league! I’m pissed. This is crazy. I’m going to bed. I’m sick to my stomach!”
— Lynwood Mosley,
coach, freshmen Bulls
Bridgeton Midget Football
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How the mighty have fallen!
We remember when the Gems played at Salvy Blandino Field under coaches Bob Wayne and then Phil Leyman and the place rocked like Plano, Texas, with uniforms perfect, coaches dressed coordinated like a drill team on the sideline under the lights and the question was not if we were going to win, but by how much as Pepi Dragotta ran the team, or Damon Calabrese, or Jack Stanton.
The Green and Gold headed for the playoffs where head referee Joe Shirk would be waiting and Salvy Blandino would be cursing, swearing they were all against us.
No matter what happened in the rest of the city, Bridgeton Midget Football and Jerry Alden’s Bridgeton Invitational Baseball Tournament were shining beacons that could not be dimmed.
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But there’s more truth …
“We hurting because of financial purposes and everybody wants a new uniform, but nobody wants to pay to sign their kids up. You know how many kids we sign up out of our pockets?
“Jokers don’t know half of what we go through as coaches every year. I just asked like 8 little boys in the Heights on the basketball court why they not playing football and they either said my mom/dad said I can only play for Millville or my mom/dad won’t sign me up.
“We’re good, though. We’re gonna make it do what it does. I’m jus waiting for these jokers to win a championship with their own kids instead of going out of the city to find other kids.
“My question to the other parents of the city is your own coaches don’t even believe in your kids because they’re willing to pay a kid’s registration fee just so they’ll play in your city where you pay your taxes, so what does that say about your coaches and what are they saying about your child — they’re not good enough to win it?
“Like I said, it’s all good. We’ll be fine and I swear, jokers better stay where they’re at when the tables turn.”
— Lynwood Mosley
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Support from a pioneer …
“Cumberland may take the Bridgeton kids, but they are not preparing them for the future. What is the regional’s record?
Case and point. Keep your kids where they are high school ready. What a disservice to them and what does it say to them.”
— Carole Green
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More distress …
“I love history, but let’s be honest here. NOBODY is coming to Bridgeton to tour historic sites. This is not colonial Williamsburg. The historic society has blocked so much progress in our city, it’s no wonder downtown is full of empty business store front after empty business store front.
“We need to turn PRO business and PRO 21st century if we’re ever going to catch up to the surrounding cities.”
— Philip Finlaw
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“Went to Fox Chase for my 4-year cancer check up. PTL, all is good.”
— Janice Laws
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God told me to tell you to bake for the Dividing Creek Historical Society bus trips.
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YOU CAN BOOK IT: Things are never as bad as they look or as good as they look.
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