Originally posted by Parallax [rant] Anyone who has known me for a while knows that I, on VERY rare occasions, express mild discontent regarding the availability of creature comforts in Pierre, SD.
In breaking with my tradition of Pollyanna-like postings regarding my chosen city legally defined municipality I'm going to relate a story.
Mrs. P did her weekly grocery shopping this a.m. at the (only) grocery store in town. I asked her to pick up some ribs for tonight. No joy. They didn't have any. No problem, we'll go to chinamart later. They had 1 package. (yes, that's right, only one package of country style ribs). We put it in the cart and went to the deli section to get some coleslaw. None to be had; neither name-brand nor chinamart brand.
No problem. Back to the grocery store. No coleslaw. That's right; you can't buy coleslaw in South Dakota's Capital city. How in the !@#$%$#@!@#$% does an entire "city" (I'm being charitable) run out of coleslaw?
Someday I hope to once again live in civilization.
"sigh" I'll put the ribs on to boil in an hour or so. [/rant]
"Someday I hope to once again live in civilization. "
Do you really want to give up all the advantages in living in an isolated prairie city like Pierre....just to live in civilization once again ?
My home town, Winterpeg is smack dab in the middle of nowhere...I like to think of it as living in splendid isolation. I get the occasional brush with civilization through the Pentax forum and I find that , that's enough for me.