What, Me Worry?

We like the strawberry ice cream shakes at at 8920 Mentor Avenue. I order mine chunky, extra strawberries.

After slurping them down (yes, I usually drip some on my shirt) we take a drive along the Avenue from the Painesville Line to the Willoughby Line. This is something we do periodically just for fun. 

We like to count the empty store fronts and the numerous For Sale and For Lease signs.

A few Mentor City Council members like to say there's nothing wrong in a city that has lots of empty store fronts, or an overabundance of For Sale and For Lease signs. It's no big deal, they say. Nothing to worry about.

I learned a long time ago that anytime a local politician tells me there's nothing to worry about, then I don't worry about it. It's my Alfred E. Neuman personality – What, me worry?

So, don't concern yourself with all the empty stores and the For Sale and For Lease signs along Mentor Avenue, have a strawberry shake at Malley's instead.

By the way, on our last count, Mentor Avenue had 96 For Sale and For Lease signs, along a 4.6 mile length of highway, excluding the tree section.