What a sterling example of making the best of a bad situation.
I’d expect nothing less from Southern California, at least the SoCal of decades past. Growing up there and living there as an adult, I was always impressed with the ability of folks there to turn what might otherwise be a big mess into, well, a party. I was the beneficiary of that several times: when a freeway disaster stopped traffic for hours
and a bag of Trader Joe’s groceries became a spontaneous picnic; when a wheel fell off our car on Deadman’s Bend north of Laguna and the quiche we were carrying to a friend’s house became the centerpiece of a teenage
beachside mobile-home celebration while we called for a tow...
Spontaneous parties were a happy consequence of SoCal’s local culture, and, after all the horrors of Katrina, I’m delighted to read that it still exists.
That sounds about right...you mean you didn’t blame Bush’s failed trade policies on the defective overseas lugnuts that made your wheel fall off??? LOL
Around here we have what we call Hugo kids. My daughter is a Hugo baby, born July 1990....exactly 9 months after Hurricane Hugo came through and cut power and blocked roads and confined us to dark houses with no power for a week. Hey, we made the most of the situation...
That’s the message I’m getting from those I know there.....they’re either busy, doing something, helping out or trying to find a way to get to their jobs.