A Stranger In A Strange Land
I'm back home in Arlington for a few days. Things have changed everytime I come back here - new buildings, new traffic lights, etc. etc. - but I realized today just how foreign the county of my birth had become. My dad is in Canada (as is the family's bizarre Fourth of July tradition), but today being the fifth of July, I was given the responsibility of buying some cheap, on-sale fireworks. So I went to the place where I used to buy fireworks... only it wasn't there. So I went to that other place down the street... nothing there either. After thirty wasted minutes of driving around to grocery stores, convenience stores, churches, schools I still came up with diddly squat.
So there will be no half-price bottle rockets this year, children. I'm sorry to let you down. Where the heck to do you buy fireworks in Arlington anymore?