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As the story goes, when Bill McAnally asked his wife, Paula, where she would like to eat over the years, her response usually was, “I don’t care.”

So, when McAnally decided to build a new restaurant last fall, the name for him was obvious: I Don’t Care Bar & Grill.

“Now we can go straight there,” he said.

I Don’t Care Bar & Grill is located just off U.S. 412 on a street variously known as 590 Road, 412P and Ben Lumpkin Road. It’s about seven miles east of Hard Rock Hotel & Casino before you reach the navigation channel.

It also is the site of the McAnallys former home of more than two decades on the south side of the highway. Their new home is on a hill on the north side of the highway.

“The state took most of my property on this side five years ago in eminent domain so they could expand the intersection some day,” McAnally said. “They left me 1.4 acres, but the house was in the way.”

For the past five years, McAnally has been gazing down on his property across the highway, wondering what to do with it.