Once upon a time.....

Once upon a time there was a small town in Arkansas, we will call this town Montijello. Now Montijello had many problems. It had a fire department that was unsafe to sit in. It had a police department that leaked like a submarine with a screen door. Now this city was governed by a group of people who spent thousands of dollars to decorate the city square for Christmas and then two weeks later dug up the entire square with a beautiful Christmasy backhoe. So needless to say the town had issues. Now it isn't the fact that these wise men and women decided to spend all this money on a piece of property that the city doesn't even own. It isn't that they spent all this money for beautiful decorations for something they knew only a few weeks later would be a construction site. No folks this wasn't the problem. See with everything that is going on the real problem are the residents of Montijello themselves. See with all this happening the citizens of Montijello were outraged. Not at the misuse of their tax dollars, not at the yet unfinished and probably over budget splash pad project. Not at the outrageously expensive pavilion with air conditioned bathrooms and free internet. No they are outraged yes outraged I tell you because their beloved stop lights have been removed. The injustice, the madness they exclaimed. We must request more studies we must ask the highway department to tell us no again cause we didn't get it the third time. Well I must ask someone to draw it for them in crayon. CITIZENS OF MONTIJELLO HEAR MY HUMBLE WORDS. GET THE HELL OVER IT AND MOVE ON. There are problems in Montijello that could not be fixed by a thousand stoplights. It is part of our history you say. Well good, you will have something to look back on when this town dries up an blows away like Burlington Industries. And for all of you who seem to be scared of a certain woman on main street, don't worry she is just mad because some body dropped a house on her sister and stole her ruby slippers. Build the damn fire department where you spent the money to build it for the love of god. Yes beloved Montijello where a church can build a building over a city street. Where you can play softball in the pool because it won't hold water and swim at the softball field because it will. A town with the need to preserve its past that runs so deep that it will sacrifice its future. Welcome to Montijello, where fast food places go to die.