My wife gave me \u201clocals directions\u201d today. It\u2019s not the kind of thing she would normally do \u2013 but visiting the town you grew up in has a tendency to dull the brain.<\/p>\n
Locals directions are directions that only locals would understand. I was sent out to buy socks for our daughter, and midway through the directions she said \u201cturn left where the Pay Less used to be.\u201d Let\u2019s skip the fact that she hasn\u2019t lived here for 20 years and she can still remember where the Pay less used to be, let alone that turning left there sent you to a source for baby socks. Despite these obvious signs of superior intelligence, it only took two days for her brain to settle into the familiar small-town pattern of her childhood, with all of its comfortable limits and easy neglect. Kind of nice, actually. At least when you\u2019re on vacation.<\/p>\n
I found the socks without much problem. It seems that small towns don\u2019t have too many corners that could have once held a Pay Less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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