I AM that asshole!

My previous post may've led you to believe that I AM that pompous asshole. I'm that intolerant person who doesn't "get" all the "common folk". That's true. That's the problem. That family in a suburb of Wichita, KS isn't the one that's out of touch…it's ME. Yes it is. If you live in Kansas (or Arkansas or Oklahoma or wherever) you've seen NYC on TV, you have some idea of what it's like, there're reference points for those people. Not for me. I've only ever lived in the armpit of NYC and Philly. I've ALWAYS been able to catch a bus into NYC within walking distance of my home. The bus route into NYC runs right past my current house…to be exact, it stops in front of my neighbor's house.

My friend was going to meet me at 4PM yoga today but she opted to go into New York and take ballet class instead since 4PM yoga was cancelled. Yup, that's how we roll here.

And that's what freaks me out. I truly don't know what it's like to live in small town America. I would imagine that for many of my fellow Americans they'd be HORRIFIED to live so close to their neighbors that they could easily see in their living room windows…but that's how close we live to our neighbors. We don't have a condo or a townhouse, we have a freestanding, single-family home but yeah, we can take a peek into our neighbors' house quite easily, by accident even and we're used to it.

On Friday I did some errands in the "sticks" of NJ and I thought, "wow, this is so spread out, maybe I could LIKE THIS!" Nah. I don't see it happening. That's just it. I truly don't know what it's like to live separate from other people. I'd actually be afraid of that feeling. I feel that kind of far-away-ness would be scary. How would someone know if anything happened to me if I didn't have a next door neighbor that was, well…NEXT DOOR?!

Sure, I've seen Mayberry, RFD but is it truly representative of small-town America? I don't know because I've never BEEN THERE!

So, yeah, I'm that asshole, I'm uninformed I think that the world is like NYC and the small places? They'd be like Philly (sorry Philly but really…own it).