The other night, I went to dinner with some friends. I was all giddy when we found a parking space only three blocks away from the restaurant. One of the things I’ll really miss when I leave The Land of Lowered Expectations™ is this ability to get all excited about small things that people in almost any other city would find quite unspectacular…
For example, any of these can give me that warm, squishy feeling of being the luckiest guy on earth right now, but it probably won’t be that way in Charlotte:
- Going out to the car and discovering that it hasn’t been broken into.
- Coming home and not finding someone smoking crack or shooting up on the doorstep.
- Going to the supermarket on a weekend and actually being able to find bread and milk.
- Having a bus arrive on time and actually being able to sit down once on board.
- Walking a whole three blocks without being spoken to by a single homeless person or Scientologist.
- Getting through a day without having to smell marijuana smoke nor urine in any public place.
- Visiting heated and air conditioned buildings with adequate plumbing.
