Unlike most Piggly Wiggly stores, this one at a crossroads in Orangeburg County sells hunting licenses and stocks ammo. “It does make an impact on our sales,” said store operator Joey Miller. It’s that way throughout the long deer season (Aug. With the season starting on a Friday this year, the hunters shared space with camo-free weekday restaurant regulars. “Honey, you better check yourself when you get home.” “There’s a tick in my orange juice,” Hoover said in disgust.:eek: She might not have noticed the tick that fell off her sleeve into the drink if the liquid had been brown instead of orange. Hoover went with orange juice, and it’s a good thing she did. Hunters don’t count calories, and a surprising number order sweet tea with their eggs. The sassy type, Bruner serves up zingers with breakfast specials that feature liver pudding, grits and toast. The mood is only slightly less familial on weekends, when non-residents flock to surrounding hunt clubs. On weekdays, most hunters know each other by name. The booths are close enough together to encourage hunting tales told across the aisles. “Saturday mornings, about 9:30, it gets crazy in here,” said waitress Annette Bruner, who has worked in the restaurant 13 years. Around Neeses, the hot spot is the Piggly Wiggly, where every one of the 37 booths in the full-service restaurant might be filled with camo on deer-season weekends. They pack Waffle Houses along interstates in rural counties or Hardee’s in the small towns. So they did what thousands of hunters do throughout the long season: headed to their favorite breakfast place. “I’m the one who had to wake him up,” Hoover said, to prove that her tired eyes weren’t a true judge of her excitement.Īlas, they didn’t see any deer worth shooting during a couple of hours in the tree stand in northern Orangeburg County. “I told her she didn’t have to go, but she said, ‘I got to go. Hoover, 17, was fighting a head cold, and Hallman tried to talk her into sleeping in. The anticipation for the first day of deer season affects hunters that way. “I could hardly sleep last night,” said Hallman, 18. Those tiny water droplets shared the air with a sense of excitement for people like J.C. NEESES - The day broke slightly cooler than normal for mid-August, with a misty fog. And after the hunt, places like the restaurant in the Piggly Wiggly grocery in Neeses, SC fill with stories of the morning. The first day of deer season opened Friday for the lower area of South Carolina and hunters were in their stands before daylight. John Wayne Bolin, left and Andy Bolin talk about the elder Bolin's first kill of the new deer season. It features a tale of a 13 y/o's first kill, ticks at the breakfast table, and mom, dad and the kiddoes all in the deer stand:Dĭeer season’s opening celebrated over big breakfast The reporter is writing about life in Mrs.
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