Small Town, Saturday Night
I saw a lot of small towns yesterday that I had never seen before. I drove through Crawford, Texas, and saw a big sign of President and Laura Bush on the outskirts of town. Anyone ever heard of or been to Valley Mills, Texas? What about Hico (although we didn't drive through it)?
I often wonder what life is like in each little town we drive through. Would I be happy in that little town? What do folks do? I could work at David's Supermarket, which we got a big kick out of seeing in several of the towns. David's Supermarket uses those old hand-made grocer signs to advertise sales. I could send my kids to the one and only school for the town, and they'd stay there from kinder through 12th grade. I asked David what he thought about living in those small towns and he said, "oppressing." That's my positive Darling!
We drove to Glen Rose for a wedding. Actually, the wedding was in Granbury. The boys' first nanny (and Elijah's first teacher ever) got married. It was a sweet wedding in a quaint ranch setting under trees, near a lovely pond with cows mooing in the background, crickets chirping, and someone in one of the front rows farting so loud at the beginning of the ceremony that Joshua could not stop laughing throughout. Oh, I hope that fart isn't on their video.
We drove back to Austin after the reception (left about 10 or 10:30pm), and Audra had warned us to watch our speed. I had just hours earlier wondered what folks do in these small towns, and now I know what the sheriffs do. They wait inches from the 30mph sign to catch speeders. David got pulled over for going 41 about 25 meters after the 30mph sign. Joshua has been wanting one of us to get a ticket to see what it's all about. Well, his wish came true.
The sheriff was pleasant with his small town, Texas accent. He didn't write a ticket for the insurance card that was 5 days expired knowing that we probably just hadn't put the new one in the car yet. He only wrote a warning for the speeding and asked David to "slow it down." He did, however, write a ticket for David's expired driver's license. I was dumbfounded, "Don't they send notices that it's going to expire?" He asked David why he was driving with it expired, and David honestly told him he had no idea it was expired and that he hadn't received a notice. His license is a bit over a month expired. I wonder if we got a notice and it got set aside or thrown away. If so, it cost us $200.
Things like this always happen to us. Is is just us or other people, too? I really think it's just us, or at least us in over-abundance. Think good thoughts that the judge will let David off once he sees that David got his license renewed immediately. It would be nice to use that $200 for something other than supporting the small town of Walnut Springs, Texas.
I often wonder what life is like in each little town we drive through. Would I be happy in that little town? What do folks do? I could work at David's Supermarket, which we got a big kick out of seeing in several of the towns. David's Supermarket uses those old hand-made grocer signs to advertise sales. I could send my kids to the one and only school for the town, and they'd stay there from kinder through 12th grade. I asked David what he thought about living in those small towns and he said, "oppressing." That's my positive Darling!
We drove to Glen Rose for a wedding. Actually, the wedding was in Granbury. The boys' first nanny (and Elijah's first teacher ever) got married. It was a sweet wedding in a quaint ranch setting under trees, near a lovely pond with cows mooing in the background, crickets chirping, and someone in one of the front rows farting so loud at the beginning of the ceremony that Joshua could not stop laughing throughout. Oh, I hope that fart isn't on their video.
We drove back to Austin after the reception (left about 10 or 10:30pm), and Audra had warned us to watch our speed. I had just hours earlier wondered what folks do in these small towns, and now I know what the sheriffs do. They wait inches from the 30mph sign to catch speeders. David got pulled over for going 41 about 25 meters after the 30mph sign. Joshua has been wanting one of us to get a ticket to see what it's all about. Well, his wish came true.
The sheriff was pleasant with his small town, Texas accent. He didn't write a ticket for the insurance card that was 5 days expired knowing that we probably just hadn't put the new one in the car yet. He only wrote a warning for the speeding and asked David to "slow it down." He did, however, write a ticket for David's expired driver's license. I was dumbfounded, "Don't they send notices that it's going to expire?" He asked David why he was driving with it expired, and David honestly told him he had no idea it was expired and that he hadn't received a notice. His license is a bit over a month expired. I wonder if we got a notice and it got set aside or thrown away. If so, it cost us $200.
Things like this always happen to us. Is is just us or other people, too? I really think it's just us, or at least us in over-abundance. Think good thoughts that the judge will let David off once he sees that David got his license renewed immediately. It would be nice to use that $200 for something other than supporting the small town of Walnut Springs, Texas.
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posted by Jessica at
9:05 AM
2 Comments:
i said "suffocating" not "oppressing."
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David V, At
10/29/07 11:06 AM
I grew up in a very small town. There were 15 boys and 15 girls in my graduating class. One of the girls is my twin sister. Thank heavens there were two of us to even things out. You learn to be really resourceful growing up in a tiny town. The best thing I can say about it now is that is a "great place to be FROM." Sorry about the grammar.
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Zaundra, At
10/30/07 5:02 PM
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