Why did Nick have his shirt off during a visit to his grandmother? Maybe he was doing some chores for her that involved working outside, or maybe I'm remembering wrong, and he was wearing a shirt.
Mowing the lawn? Cleaning the gutters? I never wore a shirt when cleaning gutters.
I like how the neighborhood hasn't changed since the 60s. Not unlike the neighborhoods I know.
The trailer park one of my mom's old college friends moved to? Gone. (Her son used to watch cartoons with me.)
The place my token white friend lived? (The first, and until college only, circumcised penis I'd seen in person.) Not how I remember it, with a lot of intersections now "approaching". Like the roads almost meet, but stop a few feet short.
In fact, this hare-brained "approaching" planning is in a lot of small towns now. And it's even in once-elegant city plans. I don't get it. I just know it's something from the last 20 years and assume it's the same "let's make something needlessly complicated to show how smart we are" school of thought that turns me off about the political class.
The map of my cousin's Atlanta home (which was close to a recording studio which it turns out, at least now it's more than twenty miles from where I thought it was) and my grandparents' favorite vacation spot are totally different. And the vacation spot I do know, because a sinkhole was a tourist trap, complete with a store, a small eatery, a small garden, and a wax museum. Same spot, and same hotels, but the roads are still different, beyond "just north of our hotel were a mini-golf place, a Burger King, a grocery store, and a mall". My grandmother went on vacation just to go shopping, I swear.
There's a new exit from the school parking lot now, and the lilac bush next to my old house is gone, but otherwise the street looks the same. But other parts of Rock Island have changed beyond recognition. Downtown now has a pedestrian promenade with shops and restaurants. I've never actually been to it, since when I go to Rock Island now, it's just for overnight on the way to Indiana or New York.
Why did Nick have his shirt off during a visit to his grandmother? Maybe he was doing some chores for her that involved working outside, or maybe I'm remembering wrong, and he was wearing a shirt.
ReplyDeleteMowing the lawn? Cleaning the gutters? I never wore a shirt when cleaning gutters.
DeleteI like how the neighborhood hasn't changed since the 60s. Not unlike the neighborhoods I know.
The trailer park one of my mom's old college friends moved to? Gone. (Her son used to watch cartoons with me.)
The place my token white friend lived? (The first, and until college only, circumcised penis I'd seen in person.) Not how I remember it, with a lot of intersections now "approaching". Like the roads almost meet, but stop a few feet short.
In fact, this hare-brained "approaching" planning is in a lot of small towns now. And it's even in once-elegant city plans. I don't get it. I just know it's something from the last 20 years and assume it's the same "let's make something needlessly complicated to show how smart we are" school of thought that turns me off about the political class.
The map of my cousin's Atlanta home (which was close to a recording studio which it turns out, at least now it's more than twenty miles from where I thought it was) and my grandparents' favorite vacation spot are totally different. And the vacation spot I do know, because a sinkhole was a tourist trap, complete with a store, a small eatery, a small garden, and a wax museum. Same spot, and same hotels, but the roads are still different, beyond "just north of our hotel were a mini-golf place, a Burger King, a grocery store, and a mall". My grandmother went on vacation just to go shopping, I swear.
There's a new exit from the school parking lot now, and the lilac bush next to my old house is gone, but otherwise the street looks the same. But other parts of Rock Island have changed beyond recognition. Downtown now has a pedestrian promenade with shops and restaurants. I've never actually been to it, since when I go to Rock Island now, it's just for overnight on the way to Indiana or New York.
DeleteHow is the boy in the first photo evil? I find him attractive.
ReplyDeleteYou have to read the story. He was a psycho.
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