Before we continue up Route 1, here are two interesting things that missed yesterday’s post.

First:

This is the entry pad for a Verizon telephone building in Hyattsville.  Doesn’t it make you want to push 2?

And second:

There is a piercing spot in Hyattsville. This poster is visible from the street. Did you know you could get your tongue pierced in 6 places?

As you leave center city Hyattsville, you go through a short, underdeveloped area, where you are reminded that there is something that all Americans do agree on:

And you can buy a car from the best:

But soon, there are restaurants, such as:

But then I hit two questionable places. The first?

The first is Leslys. It looks like a normal restaurant, and maybe it is, but I have read that it’s a normal restaurant that concentrates on loud music, underclad waitresses, and expensive drinks.

The other?

I don’t know what happens here, but I was relieved it didn’t say “decapitaciòn”.

There was more to see. A few churches, including a Church of the Brethren, about which I knew nothing. Looking at the website, I see three terrific things: members have their choice of Christian theology, they proclaim universal brotherhood, and like the Quakers, they are proponents of peace. I walked by when services were ongoing on Sunday, and it looked pretty quiet. It’s possible that those three things are just not attractive to the masses.

I saw one more bird:

And we ended here:

This is the Riverdale Army Reserve Center. I spent one weekend a month in this building for four years plus. About 50 weekends, 100 days. This after 2 years at a similar building on Goodfellow in St. Louis and that after 5 months training at Ft. Ord, California.  All interspersed with six two week summer camps at Ft. McCoy WI, Ft. Leonard Wood MO (2), Indiantown Gap PA (2), and Ft. Meade MD.

So I was halfway between a Navy Seal and a future president with bone spurs.