Today for some reason is the breaking point. Work has slowed down to where I'm working a less hectic 70 hours a week rather then the 100 I've been working for the past few months. With all this extra spare time however, my patience with small town living has grown thin. First let me state to all the people out there that by small town I am actually talking about a small town. In Angora, MN there are less than a hundred people...probably less than 50...when the hell really knows. All I know is that I can count every house for 6 miles each way from my driveway and still have a lot of fingers left. That doesn't mean that the mail lady doesn't lose my mail however...why wouldn't she? How and why Angora has it's own post office I'll never understand, but we do...we have that and a bar...I mean restaurant. As many of you know, the closest "town" to Angora, is Cook, MN. Here is where I went to school...here is where I buy groceries...here is where my soul is slowly sucked from my body. So all those people I've met who tell me they are from a small town of 20,000 can suck it. Anyway, sure small town living has it's charms...if you're 90. Some people like that the local paper is 90% randomness about some lady who saw a deer by the road (how is this news? I saw 10 deer this morning...there are more deer than people!!), and 10% ads for people wanting to buy tree stumps.
And why doesn't the library open until noon? Don't people work? 12-5 are the hours...no wonder nobody goes there!! Oh and also on the weekends it's closed. The grocery store isn't any better... i swear it shuts down at like 6. And since when is 85% Extra lean meat? And how come you have 1 type of orange and 600 different types of prunes and raisins?
Today I sat in McDonald's reading files for work because I can't get internet at my house and people looked at me like I was some sort of alien. It's a LAPTOP...if you knew what a computer was I'd tell it that it's a portable one.
It's just wearing me down...soon I'll be gone and things will be better...I'm sure small towns are nice for most people, but I can only swing in a hammock and talk about how cold it is for so long...
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I live where you do. I'd say the following: Better check the store hours, your are off by a few hours. Ditto on the library hours, although you are right about evenings and weekends. You can get wireless internet in the school parking lot and church parking lot, I'm told.
The store could be better in the produce department, but at least I don't drive 30 miles to Super One like so many people do. Who of us eats wierd produce anyway? The meat descriptions are there based on regulations. There are three grades of ground meat.
Why did you move back anyway if it is so bad? People who chose to live here have reasons to like it and/or they look on the bright side of life instead of the drawbacks.
I never did understand all the stumpage ads. So glad to see you've joined us in the blogosphere (wherever that is).
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