THE DELUX DINER
No, it's not a misspelling. That's the way they have it on the sign. A small diner located on a side street, the Delux isn't easy to find. When I was there, the TV was airing an episode of the Leeza Gibbons show which focused on the difficulty men had in dealing with their pregnant wives. One guy had a particulary sad story about not being able to watch sports as often as he would have liked. As it turns out, he was a college friend.
Nothing against the town of Rumford, which I'm sure is populated with charming and wonderful people, but the local lumber mill causes the town to smell worse than just about any place I've ever visited. When I mentioned to my sister's Maine-born boyfriend that I had been to the Delux diner in Rumford, he responded with two simple words: "Rumford smells."
