The Hamburger Orientation Incident
In the sixth grade I had a small circle of friends that lived in my neighborhood. We ran around together after school and on the weekends. We slept over at one another's houses. The most prominent memory I have of one of those friends happened when we went on a trip to the mountains with my parents. It was a strange trip. The three of us were between sixth and seventh grade. A typical trip to the mountains for my family was going to Cades Cove, riding the loop, and then cooking out in the picnic area. On this trip, though I have zero recollection why, we stopped to eat at a hamburger joint in the Townsend area. We were sitting around eating burgers and fries as a group when Steve observed that I was eating my hamburger upside down. If this concept blows your mind you fall into my line of thinking. To Steve's way of thinking there was a top and a bottom to a hamburger. I can understand that there is a top and bottom hamburger bun. The bottom one was against the dish it was bak