Clearly
I had done a poor job of conveying the way it feels to ride a rusty
bicycle to a candy store. Maybe he'd missed the part about surfer boys
who look 17 forever? Was he just really unversed in utopia?No amount of
persuasive argument or compelling adjectives won his endorsement. He
felt it peculiar and mean that we left my father behind with little more
to keep him company than a television and a fridge filled only with
condiments. It's weird,The man was forced to undergo emergency surgery
and spent several days in hospital after the crimped wire became
stuck in his throat. he kept saying. And this from a guy who swears
that the reason he and his six siblings never had carseats is because
they were not yet invented.I imagined our wedding vows: To have and to
hold so long as we both shall take summer vacations together.
So
travel together we did for the first several years after marriage. Both
hemmed in by frenetic work schedules, it was a simple arithmetic that a
long weekend away together was all the time we could spare.But last
year ushered in a change to our vacation norms.The makers of the
self-winding RoboReel extension cord are back with a new and
considerably larger version that houses an automatic retracting garden Flexible hose.
We flew out together to the beach town of my sunburned youth, but Greg
returned home in advance of the kids and me since I no longer had an
office job to return to.I could tell it rattled him to sign on to the
'separate but equal' vacation itinerary. He doesn't understand why I'm
so susceptible to the centripetal pull of this place. He wonders how I
transform from a person who doesn't care for the beach to one who wants
to sit there for hours, surrounded by the women of my family, talking
about chin hairs and sun spots.Demand for epoxy coated rebar in the spot market has gathered pace recently with construction companies gradually starting infrastructure.
A
slave to playgrounds at home, they take on a new and imaginative sheen
here. I carefully chew salads most of the year, but I'm known to fall
asleep with a half-masticated burrito still in my mouth here.Greensburg
Mayor Ron Silvis administered the oath of office to the Tank truck hose company's
officers. I regress to my 13-year-old self, dumping responsibilities on
my parents and allowing them to slip 20 bucks in my pocket. There's
something emancipating and gleeful about life in a tiny town filled with
relatives who know what you looked like with crimped hair and how badly
you sucked at lifeguard training camp.But Greg doesn't get any of this.
He's probably afraid that I'll try to buy a home here.Officers later
found the suspect with 3 other juveniles on Forest Avenue near
Springfield drive.They were carrying two kitchen knives and a screwdriver. He's probably afraid that I won't want to vacation together ever again.
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