Have any of you ever lived in suburbia and read your local paper, the Nowheresville News or whatever it’s called (Clarion tends to be a favorite XD). I don’t like little local suburbia papers personally, there’s really not that much to tell about your average little town, as it’s, well, suburbia. I mean that newspaper could be a flyer and do just as much, I don’t need to pay 50 cents a day to hear about how Mrs. Smith’s 20 cats got neutered at the same time or how a spider trapped in a parking meter looked sad (boring true story) or something dull. Just tell me about y’know, which roads are being fixed, events in town, etc.
You can get the same thing from a paper from a big city, think New York Times or the equivalent (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette LOL). It’s called the local section. Obviooooooous lol. I read it when I’m making snacks late at night. I also watched a crappy PBS documentary series once while making snacks late at night (yeah, ok, I made food to eat while watching the documentary series after the first night…it was fascinating), so you have to understand that past midnight I tend to lose sense of what makes for good entertainment.

What really does me in are those articles about “characters.” The ones about the zany toll booth keeper who dresses like a clown, or most recently in my memory, the Steelers fan bus driver (who dressed like a clown).
It’s 1000 words on how boring that job is, how the job bores people, and how you know it’s boring. Then it goes into an introduction, informs us that such and such a person is such and such a person, and then comes the ubiquitous quote that tells you that THIS person is a character! : “If I don’t do something fun like this the job would drive me crazy.”

You’re already insane.

I mean, do they see the little conundrum in what they’re saying? Do they not look around and notice they’re the only one doing this? What are they thinking when they go home at night, wipe the makeup off their face and go to bed? I just don’t understand enough about insanity I suppose. Or enough of their viewpoint. Frankly, I’m a little ok with that, but it’s perplexing.
I wonder what they do when they meet someone scared of clowns. Imagine being on a 2-ton behemoth of a vehicle charging down a hill at 40mph, driven by your worst nightmare.

not happy with this, but I want to publish, and get some feedback, since after editing it for a week it’s not getting better >.>”

title from Zoolander of course :)

and more of Slug’s work :O
(und yes, it corrupted, not much I can do, taking off on vacation soon and not worth it to fix my uploader)
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