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Wednesday, May 05, 2004

small-town drama

Here is small-town drama* for you: This morning I woke up kind of early, because my parents were bringing something by on my mom's way to work, and when I opened the door, I was greeted by the sight of a ten-foot geyser of water spraying from the water main that runs down the other side of our street. And you know what? When I called the public utility people about it, all I had to say was, "that pipe up by the Greens'** is really acting up again." And boom, they showed up.

*actually, this isn't the most dramatic thing to ever happen here. About six months ago there was a truck delivering propane that almost rolled down an embankment, and would have crashed into some enormous propane tanks, and they had to evacuate half the town (fortunately for me and my eight-hours-of-sleep habit, it was the other half) just in case there was a huge explosion. And once, the high-school science teacher/cheerleading advisor left his wife and ran off with one of his students/cheerleaders as soon as she graduated. And then they came BACK to town, which in a place like this, takes a lot of guts. And then he shot at her -- which was in the paper, oh that weekly paper LOVES it when something sordid happens -- so now they're divorced. And people think small towns are boring.

**not my name, the name of the folks across the street, and heck, this IS the internet, it's not even THEIR real name

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