Suburban Turmoil

Submitted by R. Neal on Wed, 2006/06/07 - 1:40pm.

Matt Edens, meet Lindsay Ferrier. (By way of Nashville is Talking.)

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edens's picture
Actually, that's pretty

Actually, that's pretty funny.

And don't think I don't see her point - hell, last night I called the cops on the neighbors - again (and got put on hold - wtf?). The second drunken domestic dispute in about a month - the man and wife fight in the front room while everyone else in the extended family stands on the sidewalk and shouts encouragement/disparragement, depending on who the comment's directed towards.

The high point was when a soup pot came flying out the front door and went clanging across the street.

I guess that is the downside

I guess that is the downside of the new urbanization.  You get too many people in close quarters and stuff happens.  Smile

edens's picture
On the plus side, a deputy

On the plus side, a deputy sheriff came by this morning and taped up an eviction notice on their front door.

R. Neal's picture
Justice! (That part in the

Justice!

(That part in the Scene article about law enfocement telling the other couple to keep the gun sounded fishy to me.)

edens's picture
>Justice! Unrelated,

>Justice!

Unrelated, actually. Seems they were three months arrears on the rent.

>That part in the Scene article about law enfocement telling the other >couple to keep the gun sounded fishy to me.

Yeah. And her general point may say more about her preconceptions about the 'bubs than her hypothetical east Nash hipsters. The subtitle to her blog (Link...) is, after all, "Save Me From the Plastic People." Ironic, considering she's a former TV news reporter...

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