Is anyone really surprised?

Waffle House CEO accused of sexual improprieties

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/justice/georgia-waffle-house-allegation/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

The line SHOULD read...  "...but in 2003 and subsequent years, "Rogers required (his assistant) as a condition of her employment to masturbate him while wearing a hairnet, smoking a cigarette, and holding a spatula," the report said.

Being from an area that doesn't have Waffle Houses I'd say I have no clue of any history on this.  Other than that, I go with innocent until proven guilty and let it play out in court. 

A Waffle House is not a place you typically CHOOSE to go to.  It's a place you find yourself in, at around 2am on a Sunday morning after an alcohol-induced blackout.  The 'concept' of a state law banning smoking in restaurants doesn't apply in a Waffle House because it could be argued that they're not technically 'restaurants'.  More like a dirty small buildings with tables and a cook who'll make you breakfast-type food (pancakes, eggs, etc.) sometimes with cigarette ashes in it, and sometime other 'things'.  If you can imagine the seediest redneck/meth-addict diner from out of a movie, you pretty much get what a Waffle House is.  Oh and for heaven's sake - NEVER go into a Waffle House bathroom!

That should help you get the irony.

A Waffle House is not a place you typically CHOOSE to go to.  It's a place you find yourself in, at around 2am on a Sunday morning after an alcohol-induced blackout.  The 'concept' of a state law banning smoking in restaurants doesn't apply in a Waffle House because it could be argued that they're not technically 'restaurants'.  More like a dirty small buildings with tables and a cook who'll make you breakfast-type food (pancakes, eggs, etc.) sometimes with cigarette ashes in it, and sometime other 'things'.  If you can imagine the seediest redneck/meth-addict diner from out of a movie, you pretty much get what a Waffle House is.  Oh and for heaven's sake - NEVER go into a Waffle House bathroom!

That should help you get the irony.

A Waffle House is not a place you typically CHOOSE to go to.  It's a place you find yourself in, at around 2am on a Sunday morning after an alcohol-induced blackout.  The 'concept' of a state law banning smoking in restaurants doesn't apply in a Waffle House because it could be argued that they're not technically 'restaurants'.  More like a dirty small buildings with tables and a cook who'll make you breakfast-type food (pancakes, eggs, etc.) sometimes with cigarette ashes in it, and sometime other 'things'.  If you can imagine the seediest redneck/meth-addict diner from out of a movie, you pretty much get what a Waffle House is.  Oh and for heaven's sake - NEVER go into a Waffle House bathroom!

That should help you get the irony.

 I've only been to a Waffle House once (I live north of the Mason-Dixon line).  But, I'd have to say that this all seems about right.

Yes, the one time I was there was after a night of drinking.  My wife (girlfriend at the time) ran out when we saw an exceptionally large cockroach climbing the wall near the kitchen.

only one?

I suspect that this one ate the rest.

Most likely to buld up strength for the war with the rats.

Uh, no.  And there's more.:

Lockheed Martin CEO elect fired over relationship with subordinate

This story was also announced last Friday, Nov 9, same day as the Petraeus story.  Three in one day is sort of notable I guess.

TW

At 2:00 am of a morning, anyone, and I mean anyone, is not going to be at his or her best at a Waffle House.    So everyone, cook, waitress, staff and patron  all are dancing to the same tune.    Therefore there is much comaraderie to be shared and enjoyed by all.     Misery and all that.

Of course, sometimes in my deep dark misspent younger days, even thought the comaraderie was real, I had that feeling in the back of my mind that this was the last way station on the train ride to hell. 

Perhaps that was my conscience speaking.   Oo la.

Don't mind me, I'm bored today.  Sacrilege, I know, but boredom is a dangerous thing. 

A Waffle House is not a place you typically CHOOSE to go to.  It's a place you find yourself in, at around 2am on a Sunday morning after an alcohol-induced blackout.  The 'concept' of a state law banning smoking in restaurants doesn't apply in a Waffle House because it could be argued that they're not technically 'restaurants'.  More like a dirty small buildings with tables and a cook who'll make you breakfast-type food (pancakes, eggs, etc.) sometimes with cigarette ashes in it, and sometime other 'things'.  If you can imagine the seediest redneck/meth-addict diner from out of a movie, you pretty much get what a Waffle House is.  Oh and for heaven's sake - NEVER go into a Waffle House bathroom!

That should help you get the irony.

And there's a reason that Patterson's Odd Thomas series starts out there...