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We've got some drama brewing in the retirement home.
If you're not familiar with The Villages, they're basically the most famous retirement community in America. Located in central Florida, the community has a population of around 80,000 with 80% of those residents being over the age of 65.
And while The Villages are known as "America's friendliest hometown," they're also sometimes referred to as "the STD capital of America."
Yeah, apparently the old people are gettin' freaky down in Florida.
So what better place for a Hooters than a community full of horny old men, right?
Well the breastaurant chain recently announced their first location in The Villages, signing a lease for a location in the southwest corner of the sprawling retirement community.
But not all the retirees are excited about the wings...or the breasts.
A resident named Maddy
penned an op-ed in the local newspaper expressing her displeasure at Hooters coming in and ruining their community:
"We love living here in such a beautiful community. The community is well maintained with beautiful golf courses. I feel that Hooters is a trashy restaurant and really who will go there? Golfers, grandparents taking their children and grandchildren?
In my opinion, it will not be a good fit and will end up closing down."
Damn Maddy, way to be a buzzkill.
Another resident named Barbara also
blasted the "trashy" restaurant coming to The Villages:
"What brain trust thinks a Hooters establishment is a good fit for a senior retirement community? If I wanted to live with trash, I would have moved to a trashy place."
Barbara, you live in the STD capital of America, settle down.
Another
editorial from Kimberly got to the heart of the issue: She's not a fan of the old dudes at The Villages taking their grandchildren to look at boobs. (Because I'm sure it's only the grandchildren who will want to go...)
"First of all, Hooters food is sub-par. They claim people are drawn there because of their “wings.” Maybe that’s a new words for BOOBS. We need more upscale unique restaurants in The Villages.
Secondly, I envision Hooters to attract more outsiders to our community. Not of the higher caliber of people.
Third, it will be another establishment that attracts and becomes an “enabler” of alcoholism because the male customers will sit and drink longer periods of time just to get a glance at young busty boobs in their face and Daisy Duke shorty shorts with their butt cheeks hanging out.
What decent grandparent would entertain their grandchildren to such an establishment?
This is promoted as a “retirement” community. Not spring break, Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale or Miami Beach."
But one grandpa named Sam is
fighting for his right to go to Hooters and throw back a cold one while looking at...the football games, even praising the breastaurant for all their charity work (which is clearly what the restaurant chain is best known for). And he even called Maddy out by name:
"A lady named Maddy wrote a Letter to the Editor and said Hooters, which is coming to The Villages, is trashy. Hooters has given millions to support cancer facilities. I wonder what Maddy thinks of City Fire, a meat market where people go at night to hook up with the opposite sex. How many golf cart arrests have been made at night from people that have been to City Fire, with one lady being killed in an accident? Maddy should look more closely at things."
I guess we'll have to see if the Karens...and Barbaras and Maddys...get their way, or if Sam will be able to enjoy the scenery at his local Hooters while supporting their noble mission to cure cancer.
