i was born in a small town...

[mardthestampede]

all my life i seem to have been perpetuating a love/hate relationship with my home town of clawson. i have always believed that it is really a stupid, small redneck town with narrow minded and gossipy people. i can think of many people i went to high school with that i used to despise and denounce as narrow minded "abercrombies". i could name a million other reasons to hate clawson. misappropriation of funds, half assed community projects. it took them six years to build a football field that wouldn't flood when it rained after spending almost a million on an (ineffective) irrigation system. add that to the fact that we had to vote on whether or not to keep our clawson police! i am happy to report that we voted to keep them after all. what breaks my heart is that this common sense manner had to be voted on. come on guys! it was a no brainer to keep the police and you know it! last night at work, an old acquaintance from high school came in and recognized me so we ended up talking. she was the only mormon girl i remember going to school with and respected her greatly for that because the mormon belief system is one that i have always held up to high esteem. no lie. and for all those naysayers: the church outlawed bigamy in the 1800's, and all accounts of people with more than one wife coming out of utah are all perpetuated by radical sects. she had just come back from brigham young. anyways...we talked about what people from high school are doing now and it came up that some people i went to school with, mal included, are now subbing at the high school. this made me sad because it made me wonder if this is all fate has in store for us clawson kids. born in clawson, live in clawson, die in clawson? it's almost a curse for those of us that grew up here. i have neighbors in their 80's who were born here and lived here their whole lives. and mostly, citizens of clawson don't seem to take to well to outsiders, or people who shake up the status quo. for every kerry sign you see in a yard, there will be three signs for bush. maybe that's why high school was so hard for me. i had a different set of values and refused to conform. this girl i mentioned previously was even surprised that becky was not from clawson. even ashamed. god forbid i would choose a mate outside of the city limits! ugh! well, i guess it'll give the neighbors something to talk about!! yee-haw!

(although i have to give credit where credit is due. my brother will came from clawson too and a better egg you will not find anywhere. add that to the fact that we have a cult video store, a comic store and a record store...and more fast food joints than you could shake a fratata at! maybe clawson isn't so bad...or not!)