But when a woman asked the question last week at the Catfish Place, a sprawling roadside restaurant in the hills of western Tennessee, General Clark's answer was somewhat different.
Determined to get off the traditional summer internship grid, Patrick Thronson, a Harvard senior, is earning $6.50 an hour at the Hole in the Wall bookstore at Wall Drugs, the sprawling roadside stop in Wall, S.D.
"LIKE my daughter says, 'Just shoot me now,' " says Angela Marena, 50, trying to stretch her legs in the parking lot of South of the Border, the sprawling roadside stop off Interstate 95, just south of the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
On any given Saturday, stretch limousines and tour buses jam otherwise bucolic Route 25, which snakes through sleepy towns, sprawling farmland and roadside vegetable stands.
One threw himself against a fence, exhausted, as another sprawled on the roadside, and a third was carried into a "convenient drug store," said The Eagle.
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — At a roadside restaurant here near the sprawling ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, busloads of South Korean tourists file in to witness an unexpectedly exotic spectacle: doll-faced North Korean women performing everything from saccharine ballads to a rousing number from Bizet's "Carmen".
Just outside the gates of Les Collettes lies the real world in its war-torn shambles, glimpsed in a scene in which the radiant Andrée rides her bicycle past rows of wounded, disfigured soldiers sprawled by the roadside, who eye her with a mixture of hunger and despair.
In this latest U.S. media Fidel deathwatch, the author dreams of "cliffside resorts here, with sweeping golf courses, sprawling ranches, and roadside restaurants" as if this is the only value that Cuba's coastline could possibly possess, that of a tourist destination.
It's 4am and the rush-hour trail of tuk-tuks is already snaking through the dark towards the sprawling Angkor complex, illuminated only by the roadside bonfires lit by hawkers and itinerant families.
They have often come in the form of a bright flash, a deafening thunderclap and a concussive blast wave that leaves the survivors dazed or unconscious and the wounded and dead sprawled in the wreckage caused by a roadside bomb, or Improvised Explosive Device, the main cause of American casualties in Afghanistan.
