You're excited for your WalMart Portrait Studio appointment.
A "big weekend" is getting groceries, and making a trip to WalMart for craft supplies.
In fact, you notice that WalMart doubles as a place to meet friends, grab some MacDonalds and catch-up.
On a business trip you almost run over a couple of chickens.
On the way to the gym, a pick-up truck with a dead deer tied to the roof is tail-gating you.
On the way back from the gym, a pick-up truck in front of you is obviously being operated by someone who is drunk.
The required men's uniform is levis orange tab jeans, graphic tee or plaid shirt, work boots and a mesh backed hat. The required accessory is a pick-up truck or a jeep with oversized wheels.
You have to "de-spider" your balcony with a broom.
You are no longer afraid, or even all that surprised when you find spiders in your bed, hanging from hangers in your closet, or in the lamp shade.
You've joined a knitting circle.
You know the names of the guys who work at Enterprise Car Rental, the names of the cashiers at the Liquor Store and the name of the gas station attendant.
You know when the afternoon train is scheduled to pass by your work. You are no longer bothered by the way it makes your computer monitor vibrate.
Your work, a public library regional office, is attached to the fire station.
Down the road, the salon is attached to the mechanic.
There is no grocery store, but there is a convenience store to which a butcher is attached.
All of the above have aluminum siding.
Driving at night is dangerous and generally avoided because the only lights on the highways are the yellow flashing lights on the Moose Crossing signs.
Visiting friends and family in other cities and provinces usually requires two days of travel (without a car) and a day of travel with a car.
If you take the greyhound bus you can leave your car in any random parking lot (Dairy Queen, the library) and feel secure about it.
You know that when your car finally bites the dust you are going to park it in one of the many vacant junk lots and move on.
You can see the stars.
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ReplyDeleteI liked the one about the lights on the Moose Crossing sign. Have you seen a moose? J. is right. You will find a day when you look back on this, not longingly but wistfully.