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Hey Bob!

>
> > But I'm sure that there is a farmer's market somewhere nearby isn't
> > there Bob? That or you MUST know someone who grows 'maters!
> > I couldn't stand eating hothouse tomatoes when I knew good ones
> > were so close by!
>
> The grocery chain stores might have dropped a few bucks in the right
pockets
> because they have no fit produce to sell, but for whatever reason the
> roadside stands of independents who used to bring us farm grown stuff on
all
> kinds of fruit and vegetables have been outlawed.  The published 'reason'
> was that folks stopping along the highway to buy were creating a hazard
for
> other motorists..  Sure, they were.  They were most likely making them
kick
> themselves in the seat of the pants while driving for not having time to
> stop, too!  
>
Hokey Smokes! I'd be looking in the newspaper to see if there were any folks
selling stuff! I'd be going to garage sales...just to see if they had a
garden
I could buy from!

> Actually, there is a 'farmer's market' that opens a couple of days a week
> but parking isn't nearby. Finding a place to park is in reality parking
your
> car to see if it's still there when you get back.  Crime is going wild
here
> and seems destined to get worse.  The old South doesn't exist any more.
> Drive-by shootings are killing a few every week and all the restaurants
and
> retail stores in the southeast section of town where I am, that used to be
> crime free, have begun to be plagued by holdups and robberies now that the
> criminal element is creeping in.  The police are reluctant to go into
> certain sections of town, like where I grew up, because dope dealers have
> them outgunned.
>
> The daily paper has stopped running pictures of all the family turmoil for
> survivors of those who have been killed -- many being innocent bystanders
> hit by stray bullets from rival gangs.  The recent news on TV showing a
cab
> driver being robbed and beaten is just the tip of the iceberg, as they
say.
> That area has been a trouble spot for years.  Several hundred people
gather
> there every weekend and play their car stereos wide open and drink, use
> dope, and block a US Highway so motorists have to go around it.  The only
> reason the cab driver episode got filmed was because some of the people
> there had camcorders to photograph the teen girls stripping and dancing on
> the top of cars, which also is a weekly passtime for the low life trash
that
> populates that crowd.  I wouldn't take a camera in there short of being
> inside a tank with overhead helicopter gunships shining their lights on
the
> crowd! 
>
> BobD

Certainly sounds like you've got a bad situation there Bob! You must be
thinking 
about moving to a better area!
Have you been doing any photo stuff lately?
chat with you soon
hap
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