On Dec 13, 6:16*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> sf > wrote:
>
> >> I've been told people can hear this bell from five miles away:
> >>http://i42.tinypic.com/20ge3co.jpg

> No, it's a farm bell, and it can be heard for miles... acres are not
> measures of distance, you uneducated doofus.http://www.prindlestation.com/farm.html



How about if people don't want to hear it, ever think of that?
Oh no, it's all about you, isn't it? That's the way you country folks
are. You think because you have all that land around you that it
belongs to you. But soon others will move in and your bell will be
deemed a nuisance that must by law removed or you will be fined to
death.

Of course I'm just kidding but it reminds me of an actual cab
ride I had deep into the country a few years ago. Nothing really
special about it, just what I said to the guy at the end of our
conversation. As we rolled along he was pointing to every new thing
that had gone up since he was born. "See that big supermarket and
that strip mall?", he'd say - "5 years ago that was all pasture."

On and on it went. I could identify with how he felt. Everyone
everywhere sees or goes through these changes. But as he continued
pointing to new intrusions into his world, I interjected a question
toward the end of our ride - "So your family lived out here before all
this stuff went up?" He said yeah. And I said, "So, you're the ones
who started it then, eh?" The guy laughed. See, everyone wants to
live in the country, which is how cities are born I guess.

Ring My Bell,
TJ