Thursday, January 13, 2011

on the surface

 
Anne drove her blue Jeep Cherokee to town.
Oxford is a quaint little place with a southern personality,
but it is not quite the genteel cultural mecca of years gone by..
It has a leash law now...i am not kidding..
It's one of those towns that is slowly losing its soul to uncommon sense..
like the rest of the country,
it has always been a place unlike the rest of the country.
which made it special.
When Anne and Jesse moved there in 2001 there were signs of this beginning,
but a leash law was still 10 years away..
Once Steve and Jesse road their horses to town tired of high gas prices,
Jesse held the horses while Steve went into First National to do some banking..
There is nowhere to tie equine anymore,
Jesse and the horses waited on the courthouse lawn..
upon which Cisco felt the need to fertilize..
A woman jogging by in her perfectly matching outfit gave him a look of horror and disdain..
Jesse tipped his hat..
Anne had Russ her Jack Russell with her,
he rode in the passenger seat looking out his window for squirrels..
When he sees one he stands and looks back at Anne then back out at the Squirrels, then back at Anne,
occasionally making a little whimpering sound..
Anne had no leash as she has never used one before..
Russ obeys perfectly and stays closer than most dogs on a leash..
The fine for breaking this new law is 150.00.
She parked in front of Ajax on the square and Russ jumped out the driver's side when she got out..
the lady parking cop was coming up the sidewalk..
 
wkm
nashville
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