Lunch in the Adirondack Mountains...Twilight Zone!

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At this point in our trip we’d decided to start making our way toward home.
We rode south through the Adirondack Mountains. More beautiful sights and curvy roads! We stopped in a small town called Chestertown, New York. At the filling station I asked a man if he could recommend a tasty place to eat lunch. He gave me directions down the street to a local pizza and sandwich shop. We road down the street and easily found the small pizza diner. While parking our motorcycles on the street we noticed a German motorcycle with side car turn into the motorcycle shop beside the pizza diner. Two men in their late 40’s or 50’s were riding the bike and side car. We walk over to them while one gentleman was still sitting inside the side car and the other standing real close to the motorcycle and looking down. Brad made a comment such as nice bike or how does that side car ride. Neither of the two men looked up at us. We thought perhaps they didn’t hear us so we side stepped around the bike just as you would walk around a bike on display at a bike show. We said some more comments and these guys still did not even acknowledge that we were standing there. In my mind I heard that music from the Twilight Zone!

We turned and walked to the pizza diner. We were the only customers and hungry. We sat at a table in the window and the waitress handed us a set of menus. We ordered a calzone and a nacho appetizer to split. It turned out to be way too much food for us. Anyway the waitress returns with our drinks. The soda came in those white Styrofoam cups. There was no ice! I figured they had a refrigerator with those two liter bottles of sodas to serve the customers. This seemed similar to a restaurant we stopped at while in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Brad ordered some water and the cup came with more ice than water! He was puzzled about why the soda had no ice but the water did. As we waited for the food we looked at the map and tried to determine if we should turn west toward Syracuse or get on the freeway toward Schenectady before turning west. We decided to go toward Schenectady and then our conversation turned toward the small motorcycle shop next door and those men not acknowledging our presence.
Our food arrives. The waitress places the food on the table adjacent to us. We look at her puzzled and she nonchalantly asks if we need anything else before walking away. This confirms that the Twilight Zone music I heard in my head was real! Brad and I had to stand up and get our food from the table beside us. This was crazy! Was the waitress afraid to get too close to us? Is the practice of setting the food on a different table related to the no ice in the soda but ice in the water? Did we smell? Did this have something to do with the two men outside the diner ignoring us? Is it possible that we found the Twilight Zone in the Adirondack Mountains? Perhaps we did!
Location: Chestertown, Chester, NY, USA

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