One of the great guilty pleasures of the State Fair is eating an artery-clogging funnel cake or fried candy bar. But there are far too few places to sit while you eat.
The assembly-line restaurants have seats, but naturally they're reserved for patrons. Benches in the main food-service areas would help. You could never install enough of them to seat every eater — and if you tried, you'd block too much pedestrian flow. But a few here and there couldn't hurt.
There's room, too, for bleachers in front of the Expo Center.
Failing that, nature offers help in some spots. It's not awful, after all, to sit on the roots of a sturdy oak as you polish off a funnel cake coated in powdered sugar, cinnamon, or chocolate.
The trees don't mind. The ants don't, either.
Thad Ogburn is The N&O's Metro Editor, overseeing most local news reporting. His previous jobs have included editor of North Raleigh News and Features Editor, during which he learned that comics attract more reader response than just about anything else we do. His guilty pleasure is reality TV, which he finds not very real at all. That's assuming, of course, there is room on his DVR amid his daughter's "iCarly" episodes and his wife's daily installments of "One Life To Live."
