Bottle wrote:Neo Art wrote:
If you're still where I think you are, I think I know that shop.
Agreed, their meatballs are fantastic.
That said, the places where you and I live aren't exactly teaming with the "say merry christmas or else!" crowd.
True. A friend of mine recently moved to Somerville from North Carolina, and when he was looking for apartments he commented, "Oh, there's a Planned Parenthood like two blocks from this place." I was confused as to why this even merited comment (there's actually a second PP within walking distance), and then he explained, "Well, my parents would be a little freaked out to know I was so close to one of those." And I reassured him that when his parents come visit and notice that he lives 3 blocks from a famous lesbian coffeehouse they'll forget all about the abortion factory down the street.
These are the things you get used to when living in the heart of the secular wasteland that is New England.
My mother visited my apartment in Brookline a little before the election. She commented that she thought I lived in a very liberal neighborhood, but was surprised to see so few lawn advertisements and bumper stickers there were for Obama
I explained to her that Brookline doesn't advertise for Democrats, not because they don't vote for them, but because of a general trend of "well, of course I'm voting democrat, who else did you think I was going to vote for?"
That said, a few years ago I did see someone had stuck a bumper sticker to the metro box that said, I think "No 'Merry Christmas' then know Merry Christma$".
And I'm sitting her going "really? REALLY? You think this strategy is going to work in Coolidge Fucking Corner?"
