7/4: Whitmore Lake July 4th

I currently live in Whitmore Lake.  Whitmore Lake is an interesting little community.  We have Polly's Market with over priced out of date product.  It also contains the largest beer, potato chip and ice cream selection of any store that is the size of my house.  We also have the Bobber Down and the Family Video.  This Family Video also happens to contain the largest collection of barely legal porn of any Family Video I have ever seen. (Yes, I know, Family Video has porn?  What?! (I hear this "What?!" as Christy's sarcastic "What?!" in my head) Family Video is apparently for every member of the family whether it be a small child into princess movies or a hormonal teenage boy (or middle aged man) into almost pedophile fantasies.)

I come from a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  This small town is quaint, not unlike Whitmore Lake (if you can call this quaint).  We have several Bobber Down type bars.  We do not have a porn video store.  Our stores are also a bit more proportional in their nutrition vs. bad carb varieties.

Whitmore Lake also really enjoys Fourth of July.  I mean, really enjoys Fourth of July.  Fourth of July started here about two weeks ago with a barrage of fire crackers and M80s being blasted in neighbor's lawns.  The drinking began a couple of days ago.  A lot of drinking. Drinking beyond my capabilities for drinking (and if you knew my former self, that was a lot of capability).

I have never experienced such a frightening display of indulgence and trash.  The cursing, the screaming, the explosions, the beer cans.

I learned today that I do not want to live here forever.  Or any place like it.

No offense to the people here, seems like your thing.  Just not mine.