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WHERE WAS I?
Well, I was eating scrambled eggs and hot sauce with Doc
Eldridge over there in Greene County at the Yesterday Cafe in
Greensboro right down the street from where I used to eat sardines
and soda crackers with my Daddy in our old store after hours when
Mamma and my sisters had gone off to Atlanta to do some shop
ping at Rich's, a long time before it became Macy's, which used
to be Davison's and before that Davison-Paxon when there wasn't
any Lenox Square or any other malls, and you went to downtown
Atlanta to do your shopping, and for that matter you could go
on the train, just go down to the station and hop right on a pas
senger train in the morning and come back in the evening, but of
course we didn't call it commuter rail back then, we just called it
the train, and we got on it and went to Atlanta and came back,
which was just as well, because there weren't any interstate
highways back then, either, so it was a long and tedious drive to
Atlanta, unless I was driving the Cadillac ambulance, which is what
we called it when we weren't using it as a hearse, which was back
when I was working at the store and at the funeral home which
belonged to the store, and when I was driving the ambulance, we
went fast, and when I was driving the hearse, we went slow: you
just had to know which was
which, and I was telling Doc
that I was glad we could still
eat breakfast even though he
had decided not to run for
Congress, even though Greene
County would have been in
his district if he had and for
that matter, he still might, so
I asked him where he stood on
bike paths and he said he's all
for them, which I assured him
would get him the Cobbham
vote in Athens, especially after
our progressive Mayor and Commission three-lane Prince Avenue,
with the center lane for buses and the two outside lanes for bi
cycles, but I don't think Doc will support limiting the number of
people who can live in a house in a residential neighborhood to
one-unrelated, non-smoking, even though the one-person limit
would be so good for the bar and restaurant business, since people
would have to get together at sidewalk cafes to eat their family
meals, because if the police caught them eating together at home,
they might assume that the whole family lived in that one house
and arrest them, and of course the one-unreiated law will be fabu
lous for the real-estate market and is the solution for all this over
building of apartments and condos all over Athens as it will mean
that a lot of people are scrambling to find lodging just for them
selves, and, you know, I tried to get Doc to run as a Democrat,
because that's all he has ever run as, but he holds himself out to
be a Republican now, though why anybody would want to be a
Republican in Athens-Clarke County, I don't understand, especially
since the new progressive Mayor and Commission are sure to throw
out those silly non-partisan local
elections that Doc got passed, and
you'd think Republicans would be
proud of their party and want to
identify with it at election time,
instead of hiding behind "non-
partisan" elections as if it didn't
make any difference whether you
were a Republican or a Democrat,
but my Daddy was a Democrat and proud of it, because he knew
Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved this country and especially the
South which was lying prostrate from the boll weevil until FDR in
troduced kudzu as a lesson in how government can take over your
life, unless the Republicans are in charge of the government, and
then it can't take over anything, not New Orleans, not Baghdad,
not the Veteran's Administration: all they can use the government
for is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and God help the
middle class, which is one reason Doc doesn't have much room to
run for Congress, because the rich folks will vote for the right-wing
Republican and the poor folks will vote for the liberal Democrat,
and there's not enough middle-class left to vote for a moderate,
except that when our progressive Mayor and Commission solve the
problem of poverty in Athens by redistributing the wealth here,
then I guess there won't be any more Republicans anyway, which
would be a comfort here in the 10th District, where they have
treated us so badly, but at least in Athens we've got our progres
sive Mayor and Commission and the University of Georgia, where
my Daddy went to school and so did I, but anyway, as we all know,
from having been told so many times, at the end of the day, we've
all got to move forward, because it's already Apr. 1, and you know
what that means.
Pete McCommons Editor & Publisher editor@flagpole.com
...FDR introduced
kudzu as a lesson in
how government can
take over your life...
...I don’t think Doc will
support limiting the
number of people who
can live in a house in a
residential neighborhood
to one-unrelated,
non-smoking...
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