FRIEND, Ne.- Gabe Wedemeyer created a stir Tuesday night when he paid for a $2 cheeseburger with a $100 bill at the local Frankie J's diner.
Whispers immediately penetrated the small 15-by-20 room when he thumbed through his wallet, passing several smaller bills, and whipped out a Benjamin. "We don't see that too often," said Frankie Jameson, the owner. "It was damn near offensive, as if he thought he was too big of a man for a $5, or even a $20 dollar bill."
"I've never seen one in person before," Jimmie Schuck, 14, said. "I've only heard of 'em and seen them in movies."
Many people thought he looked like "an outsider" and was perhaps from "the city". "I don't like city-folk coming in here. They think they've got the lay of the land just by stopping in at a burger joint and picking up a good ol' fashioned sandwich for the road. That just ain't the way it works," said local Barbara Robins.
Some people even went as far as to say Wedemeyer looked like a criminal, or a "hustler". Another even called him a pimp. "I just don't like that type in here. I know he didn't bring his hoes or his duped up caddy," Leland Banks, a local said, "But it's about a man's stance, or 'swagger' as they call it up in Lincoln. He just gave a sex-soliciting vibe."
"I work as an accountant out of Omaha," said Wedemeyer. "I'm on my way to visit my sister in Scottsbluff. I've been coming through this very diner twice a year for the past 10 years. I love its character," Wedemeyer said with an appreciative glance around. "And the burgers are to die for," he added.
When asked whether he knew the locals had such notions about his character, he said, "I knew that they realized I was from a larger city, but dear god, I never knew that they thought I was a-a-a pimp!"
Wedemeyer has vowed never to return to Frankie J's Diner in Friend Nebraska, to which all of the locals sighed a collective sigh of relief. "I'm happy he's gone, I don't bode well with woman-haters," owner Frankie Jameson said.
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