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Banshew fork in the roadmovie poster7/5/2023 ![]() The fire started when confetti from the previous night’s new year’s eve party caught fire in the heat registers. In 1920, John’s son Paul took over and operated the original hotel/theater until a fire consumed the building on January 1 st of 1927. The hotel was the first to show movies, by way of latern slides and a piano, in the Mukwonago area. Part of the hotel was turned into an amusement hall and included a stage. Under the new owner, John Nowatske, the hotel undertook some renovations along with a new name Park Hotel Theater. Gilbert owned and operated the hotel until November of 1912. The hotel had an addition put on in 1893. The structure featured 40 rooms, a bell tower, an ice house, shops, offices, a reading room, a billiard room, a first class livery, horse stables, and a 2 acre park. That juncture of our lives is terrifying because we are suddenly faced with a situation we hadn't prepared ourselves for and have no choice but to take a new direction which we don't know the outcome of.Built in 1885 by Gilbet M Dillenbeck, a blacksmith from New York, the restaurant called Fork in the Road was once a hotel named the Dillenbeck House. We all have that moment in our lives when the direction of our lives is abruptly disrupted by an event or circumstance that forces us to have to take a new direction. Their break-up was a turning point for him as things would not be the same for him and he had the challenge of figuring out how to get over the break-up and where to go from that point. The songwriter wrote the song when his girlfriend of a few years decided to break up with him and move to South America and it had a big impact on him that he felt lost and didn't know how to handle the break-up or go back out into life again. ![]() What is really stuck is the person in the situation who is stuck in that situation and has to try to make the most of it. He is thrown into the situation and has no choice but to consider the two directions suddenly laid out before him and it is a reluctant point in his journey. The fork's position on the road is that point where our road splits in two different directions and 'stuck' indicates that the fork cannot be undone, that this split on the road is outside of the person's ability to wish it away. ![]() The 'a fork stuck in the road' verse is a metaphor to indicate the juncture in our lives where the road we have been comfortably travelling on the journey of life abruptly splits in two different directions and the traveller is now forced to make a fateful decision on which of the two directions to take, not knowing where each of the two roads might take him. So what does it mean "a fork stuck in the road"? It makes sense to me, but it got three times more down votes than up votes. "Hey, somebody should tell Alanis that every time you hear the rolling thunder, it means the lightning already missed you. It says the right phrase to use is "a fork in the road", and it also makes reference to the "Good Is Good" song to show it is just another mistake made by the songwriter. ![]() I've looked up the Urban Dictionary and foundĪny exceptionally stupid or illiterate phrase found in a pop song. The point where something, especially a road or (North American) river, divides into two parts. Why there's a fork stuck in the road? is it some metaphor? It's been baffling me for more than ten years, first I thought maybe I was so not good at English to figure out its meaning, and now I've finished my masters degree taught in English and I find myself still not able to understand it. The first sentence from Green Day's "Good Riddance" song:Īnother turning point, a fork stuck in the road ![]()
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