Fred is right about living in a small town. I happen to also live in a small town, its called Ventura Village. I moved to a city out in the "BURPS" once, but people did not like knowing their neighbors and after a while my kids and wife were spending more time back in the "small town" than at our 'burb' house. So I upped and moved em back. Back to all our children's foster grandparents and our close friends who absolutely surround us in our "small town". Heck, I get to know more people in a week in my small town than I got to know in a year out there. Now I got to admit it was quite, but so is the inside of a coffin.
Our small town just happens to be close to a bunch of other small towns. In fact really close. So close you can even walk. I delighted in proving to a "Hump" graduate planner that my front door is 1.1 miles from the front door of Humphrey's front door and 1.3 miles from Dayton's Downtown 8th Street door. So like any small town, I can walk downtown if I want. While I usually drive I like the fact that if I want to I can have just about any kind of food you can imagine in just a short stroll. I actually should walk that mile to 26th and Nicolett more often, I might still have my girlish figure. (The one I haven't had in so long my wife's old memory can't seem to dig it out of the file. I think she remembers marrying this short chubby guy instead of the tall slim one in the pictures) Yes I like my small town, and will be damned if a bunch of drug dealing hoodlums will move me. (well occasionally they move me to violence at criminals and swearing about Judges who need a glass insert for their belly buttons, if you get my drift). So the judges have to go back to being bad lawyers and the criminals have got to go some where else, cause I aint going no where but to bed. Speaking of which, I am missing my beauty sleep, and most people already say I must stay up too many long nights. Course like the old horse, I been rode hard and put up wet on just too many cold nights. You can say things like that when you are from a small town. Jim Graham, just me, Ma, and the crickets here in small town Ventura Village _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
