I've taken a quick trip down home to see my brother. His girlfriend came too. She has only been to Maryland once, and not to visit Adam. She has never been to our house or met most of our family.
As we sat at the dining room table, she doing homework and me reading The Bloggess, she asked what there was to do in our town. And could not stop laughing as i answered her.
"Well, in the next town over, there's a movie theater. It has five screens. There's a bigger theater about 40 minutes away.
"When i was in high school, the kids would all get into their pickup trucks, drive down to the shopping plaza, and smoke and drink until the cops came and told them to leave, because they were loitering. Then they'd drive a few hundred yards to the ice cream place and do the same thing until they went home to bed. This happened three or four nights out of the week, minimum.
"The town with the big theater also has a mall. And some restaurants.
"Other than that, there's the internet. Or cable. We read a lot . . ."
She nodded, still laughing, and said, "Okay."
I grinned. "Yeah. That's why i don't live here anymore."
None of the above activities were in any way exaggerated for comic effect.
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