new dive shop opening in boca

[DiverAmy]

Uh oh.... Amy - and I always see your name as AmyLoraN - too many years staring at endless oceans... you took your mom to Sonny's when you coulda, woulda, shoulda taken her to Big Joe's just up the street???
Sonny's is ok. Big Joe's desserts, which I can only look at, rule.
The dive store thing though - this is kinda developing. Boca Surf & Sail has always been up there with a lock on the clothing, and a few dive shops have tried to slog it out with Force-E while I've been in Boca.
Now Bob is stepping up to the line in the sand. Hmmmm... When I finally leave CT after all these months, I will stop in there.
Big Joe's food is also very good. If you can't get me to make a burger for you at The Compound, his are almost as good.

Mom requested Sonny's. She loves the chocolate ices at Sonny's. It reminds her of her NYC past. You know, Italian ices. I had a cuppa coffee. I am not a dessert eater. I am not at all familiar with Big Joe's. I gotta check it out. I guess the Scubapro wetsuits made me curious about whether they bought out the merchandise from Boca Dive Center (I think it was called) on Glades, which became Brownie's (not a fan of their WPB location, so overpriced for servicing gear, I thought!), which I never went into, but assumed just bought the old merchandise (which I recall was heavily Scubapro). I knew at least three different owners of that place on Glades. I wonder whether someone else will try that location. I have to admit that I have had a lot of frustration with Force-E in Boca over the years, especially in regard to getting fills. Back to food. We ate at a new Italian place for dinner, just N of Josephines, and S of Comcast. It was very good. They made me eggplant (I am a vegetarian) which wasn't even on the menu.

 

[Tom Winters]

Uh oh... that NYC past. The last ice I had there was in the Bronx - tamarindo. It wasn't all that great.
If you're a vegetarian, skip Big Joe's. If you're a vegan, I guess you ought to go there, pull your pants down, and press your vegetable-filled buttocks against the window. No one will notice too much if they're cramming the burger specials down. It will make good street theater though, and Boca could use some of that.
I never had tanks filled at Force-E - the partial pressure nonsense kinda burnt my toast. Fill Express always took care of me, especially in the good old days of ah, the significant overfills. The location of the fill station at the FRONT of the shop - aaaaargh. I offered to redesign it but Skip was ok with the way things were.
If your mom loves Sonny's chocolate gelatos, take her every chance you can. Where's she from - Arthur Avenue?

---------- Post added August 13th, 2013 at 07:39 PM ----------

Tom you must be what I hear down here as a half back?

Well, since half my brain has been in Floriduh and half my brain has been in CT since March, I believe that I legally qualify as a half wit.

This allows me to legally park inside of Publix, so don't dawdle too much at the specials just inside the sliding doors at Palmetto Park Plaza or you will be the lead-in story for ah...Terri Parker on the 6 o'clock news..

I think that tomorrow morning, I am leaving CT for the last time, unless I come back to collect a monstrous check in person later this year. Maybe, just maybe, this is the time when I get to actually experience:
"Ex-ESPNer, Sal Marchiano, who left the network in 1983 after three years who said on-air: `Happiness is Bristol in your rearview mirror.''"