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Default Hot in the city? No.

Dave Smith wrote:
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> On 2016-08-06 9:22 AM, Gary wrote:
> > jmcquown wrote:
> >>
> >> It sounds like you need to go live in the country where you would never
> >> have to interact with anyone.

> >
> > I would *love* to be a very isolated lighthouse keeper.
> > Just give me cable tv, books, and internet.
> > Toss in a couple of lighthouse ferrets and I'm there!
> > Sadly they are all automated in the US now.

>
> I had a friend who was a lighthouse keeper for a while. He had been a
> major drug freak and somehow ended up married to one of the best looking
> girls from my high school class. He got a job as a lighthouse keeper in
> an island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Being the kind of guy he was,
> he took a couple pounds of marijuana out to the island with him. At
> some point he found Jesus and baptized himself in the Atlantic Ocean in
> the middle of winter and shortly after his wife left him for the
> helicopter pilot who used to bring their supplies.


LOL! Good story, Dave. :-D