We have been here a week and I am enjoying being here in the small town of Sweetwater. Some things are kind of inconvenient but that is to be expected I guess. There are also things that are inconvenient in the big city. At least I am not real anxious about things like I was in Fort Worth.
In the big city people are not real friendly and some act like you are doing something to them or they are worried you might. I kept my doors locked all the time there and when I went anywhere I made sure my car doors were locked. Here we don't even lock our doors when we go somewhere if we are not going to be gone long. And at night I feel a lot safer. In Fort Worth I had heard of someone breaking in and killing someone quite often. That would be a bad way to wake up in the middle of the night. I lived there for twenty five years and guess I was lucky nothing ever happened.
Things not convenient there was the driving in traffic I guess. If there was a wreck on that freeway it might be a thirty minute delay or more. And drivers there are so rude. Then there is the parking and having to walk a mile if you happen to find a parking place. Waiting in line and I am not a patient person. You got to pay for parking most places too. Some places you go might be thirty or forty minutes away . And that is driving on the freeways and hoping no traffic jams. There is the convenience of being able to find anything you want though.
Inconveniences I have found here is like we were looking for a bug zapper and they didn't have one here. We went to Abilene this morning though and we got one. Got home and now my ATT cell is not working right. So it is back to Abilene tomorrow. You got to plan for unexpected emergences I suppose. I got to make a list and be sure I get everything I need because that will only be a once a week trip.
I have always been a believer that if you do things all the time it seems so common and is not exciting to do them anymore. Shopping or eating out . When you go once a week here it is a lot more exciting to get to go. Same thing on eating out. If you go once or twice a week it is nice to do that. If you do it everyday you get tired of it. That is just like a kid with a toy. If they have lots of toys they don't want to play with them. If they only have a few and just get new ones on Christmas or birthdays it is a lot more exciting.
Anyway there are advantages and disadvantages of the big city and little town. I am very grateful that I can be both places right now. I get tired of one place I can go to the other one for a little while. We will see how it goes. It is an adjustment from one to the other. It is like two different worlds.
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