I like bumpy roads and other things that are now unlikeable

There is a lot to like about all the things we don’t like anymore. The things that we are too rushed to appreciate, too busy to know they are still there. Too focused on too many things.

Like bumpy roads. I like them. Bumpy roads in the middle of nowhere and bumpy roads on side streets when you are trying to take shortcuts. Bumpy roads that make everyone in the car bump up and down. Or the bumpy roads that make you slow down to almost stopping. We all need some bumpy roads to break up the flatness of our lives.

People don’t like drip coffee anymore. The kind of coffee that you prepare first thing as you enter the office. The kind that comes out of the old familiar Mr. Coffee pot. It’s got a few tan-colored rings around the corner, but it’s been faithful to you. The drip, drip, drip, and the little rumbling sound that you wait to hear to know it’s time to get up for your first cup of the day. I like drip coffee.

I think people should go back to liking hand-scooped ice cream instead of the soft serve kind that has no personality. When you go to a hand-scooped ice cream place, you get to spend way too much time looking at all the buckets, wondering the taste of each flavor. Classic flavors are always there, and exotic new flavors, too. Some have nuts, some have names you can’t pronounce. All are…