--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> my parents went to Shenandoah or someplace and they had dry cleaning
> in the trunk and they opened the trunk to get something out and left
> the trunk open, came back and all the clothes were stolen. They
were
> really pissed off but not surprised, except for the Shenandoah
part.
> This is the country--not the city! they said. Stereotypes, I know,l
> but Retha says stuff like that doesn't happen in North Dakota. You
> never know.
>
When I did my cross-country driving tour in 1995, to decide where I
was gonna go to grad school, I only had one experience with something
resembling crime: I was planning to stay at a campground, so I drove
around the place to pick out my site before I registered. Found the
site I wanted, and left my cooler of food on the picnic table to let
people know the site was taken. Drove back to the front gate to write
down my site number and leave my fee in the box, which took maybe ten
minutes. When I got back, my cooler was gone. (And no, I don't think
animals were responsible -- there was no sign that the cooler had ever
been there.)
This was at a campground just outside lovely Mankato, Minnesota.
I had no problems anywhere else in the country -- not in Chicago, not
in Boulder, not in Wyoming (even in Yellowstone), not in Kansas or
West Virginia or Missouri.
That incident was probably the final thing that made me decide to go
to school in Boulder instead of Mankato -- a decision that had
enormous consequences. But that's a whole 'nother rant.
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