Oops!

Great idea to get a good varnish job and a really good price.

 

- same here, no Church on Church Street, which is in the middle of town, but a huge old church on Center Street, which of course isn't central. I kept getting lost for a few weeks after I moved here until I figured that out . . .

 

This same town had only two convenience stores. One of them got robbed. When the cops ( I think there were three cops in that town) asked the clerk for a description of the robber, she said, it was was my cousin (name deleted to protect the town). So they went out to his farm and arrested him. (this is not a joke. It really happened.) I could write a very funny book about this place, but then my father-in-law would be really mad at me. He lives there.

 

Continuing the small town theme...

In my sister's country town the teacher asker her 7 year olds to give a short talk about what they did on the weekend.
One lad proudly told the class that his dad had found a car and that he helped him paint it a new colour and to change the number plates.

 

Long ago, one of my friends young kid had to use "joint" in a sentence at school and piped up with something like, "Have you smoked a joint today?" That was funny.

 

I've heard my nephew say something similar in a crowded elevator.
Even better, to a friend's mother, "My mum thinks you're really fat".

 

- reminds me when I was a teen. Mom was getting dressed up for my graduation and asked me if her dress made her look fat. I was brought up to tell the truth but I was also learning that it could hurt. My Mom was far beyond the 'comfortably padded' stage by that time, so clever kid that I was, I said something like "no Mom, the dress is fine"

It took years for me to figure out where I went wrong . . .

 

In the 80s I pinned an article from the 'National Lampoon' on the refrigerator, it was about the recent decision by Congress to outlaw farts and all forms of farting. I put it there and forgot about it. About 6 months later all our kids were astounded to learn it was fake. Apparently they had told their classmates and even their teachers all about the law. The one boy,'Tom The Bomb', had been worrying and going out to the bus stop early to work them all out before getting on the bus. Learning the truth relieved a lot of pressure so to speak.

 

Imagine what might have happened if he had grown up and ran for Congress, A lot of the real progress in politics has happened like that . . .

 

Politics eventually struck close by, we lived about 3 miles from the Bachmanns of Michelle Bachmann fame.

 

Is that near Salem, where witches come from?

 

No, that was near Waumandee, Wisconsin. Salem would be by Beverly, MA where I did take up with a young woman possessed.

 

Just dawdling over my coffee and imagining the different ways this could have gone down -

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...challenge-prince-andrew-during-walk-at-palace

Assuming Andrew didn't have ID on him, which is probably a pretty safe bet (Do the royals even have state ID's?), what did he say - Call my mummy, she'll explain it to you? Or, - I left it on the Chippendale in my room, I live here.

The Yard would seem to have found its next pair of kennel cleaners.

on the small town theme - I used to live here -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Lake,_North_Dakota

 

- they don't even get licence plates . . .

 

The one I lived in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Lear,_Kentucky more than a half century ago.