[SamAdams76]

Great read! In trying to denigrate the "Patio Man," the author has actually managed to put him on a pedestal for others to emulate.

I'd say more but I have to go downstairs and flip over the steaks that I have marinating. Also it's time to turn off those sprinklers and get the beer on ice.

[gcruse]

Great read, indeed. It has many similarities to Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, which, on first reading, was like a documentary of up-to-date living in Zenith, a 1920s Sprinkler City of sorts.