Town Meeting

I live in Vermont; that’s pretty clear by now. A great byproduct of this, however, is getting to vote at town meeting. Also, it’s the only place, as far as I can tell, that really destroys all notions of a small town, loving, community.

Don’t get me wrong- it’s certainly small town, and it’s certainly a community. The problem lies with the word loving. It seems that every action the school board takes, there will be people that will unanimously agree that it’s stupid. I came to the conclusion that plenty of folks didn’t even read the articles, and I’m almost certain that many issues went misunderstood. But alas.

Anyway, it boiled down to a bunch of old, flannel wearing, beard growing, subaru (or giant truck) driving citizens arguing amongst themselves, with one kinda fat guy in the front repeatedly asking to adjourn for lunch.

That guy was sort of my hero.

~ by Josh on March 5, 2008.