THE SHELBY INDEPENDENT

Chuck Thompson | The Sunday Column OPINION / HUMOR – A while back there were a few teenagers or college kids who were asking people in the parking lot of the grocery store if adults were jealous of young people alive today - it was obviously for a social media thing or whatever. They didn’t ask me but the answer I heard was almost exactly what I was going to say: No . And though the woman didn't expand on her answer, I'm sure what she was thinking was along the same lines as

Why does the oven light never burn out?

Romance will never be the same

I remember the first time I gave a girl I liked a giant Hershey kiss. I was in the 6 th  or 7 th  or 8 th grade – maybe I was in high school? I could just lie and pick a grade, but the girl involved in this opening paragraph memory might read this column, and then accuse me of spreading misinformation, so instead I just mentioned them all. Anyway – It was the size of my fist and in a box, a giant Hershey’s Kiss wrapped in tinfoil just like the regular sized ones – or wait a

The names of restaurants have always annoyed me. I don’t know why, that’s just how I’m wired.

There’s no place quite like North Carolina.

Mondays remind me of The Gremlins

If it’s not summer, and definitely not the cool feel of Fall, then, what is this abysmal period of discombobulating season called?

The Pavilion was a magical place — at one time, from what we were all told.

The last of the pre-internet pioneer children. The last of the “just yell for my mom, she will hear you!” When you fell off your bike and br

OPINION / HUMOR — Opening a cylinder can/ tube of ready-to-bake biscuits is the baking version of Russian Roulette.

It was a time of serious competition as the Baptist, Methodist & Presbyterians tried to beat one another to the old steak house.